...for those of you who know Manasseh you might have heard that she lives in Chingola, Zambia. Well that is where Lauren and I have settled down for the next month.
Why havent we blogged in almost two weeks you ask???
Well the first week we spend in a small town just outside of Ndola, which i think is spelled like Chipulukusu, but people who know me know that i cant spell at all!!!!
What did we do there?? Well let me tell you! Last years world service corps members went and asked the community what they needed most in the town and they said a school. So Health Ed Connect put a community school in the C of C building. This year Lauren and I went and asked the families of the school and the children how the children dealt with different things in life and what their meals were like! That way Health Ed Connect can work to build a psyco/soc division for the community. That took us a week to get all the surveys done. The community health workers work really hard and we completed 150 for the Graceland Nursing students to look over.
While we were there we stayed with a WONDERFUL family. They had two sons, Abel 14 and Derek 17. they took us all around the village and helped us whenever we needed them to. We gave them fake tatoos and taught them how to play nerdz. They gave us memories that will last a lifetime. A lot of them caught on film! it was very hard to leave them. We also went to the bathroom in a hole and showered out of a bucket!!
Then earlier this week we spend sometime in Zamtan. Another wonderful village where we were greeted by a bunch of young men from the church, which took us around the village. Our days were shorter in Zamtan because we just asked what the community needed the most. We will see what they say when we add up the surveys. There we watched a lot of world cup and went to peoples houses to pray for them for different reasons. We lived a lot by flash light as well because they had no power in their houses. We also got to pee in a hole!!
SO over all we are doing well and enjoying our time here as well as our time together. We have settled down for the next month and will be doing more surveys as well as working with the church and enjoying our church family. The prayers are wonderful and we can feel the love you send us. Thanks for everything!
Colleen and Lauren Marie
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