Welcome to Elidah

This month we are pleased to welcome Elidah to Ipusukilo. She brings with her many years experience of working in an orphanage in Ndola. Elidah is currently settling in and we hope that she will become house mother in hostel 3.

Matthews' birthday

Today we celebrated Matthews (2)'s birthday with cake, presents and balloons!

Candles blown out

Present delivered by Emily

Uncle Studd's back!

It's great to have Uncle Studd back with us after an extended visit to the UK. He has been able to help Uncle Phil with some of the bigger jobs at Ipusukilo. Aunty Muriel is back too now after checking on the arrival of their new grandson.

We moved up the 5000litre tank to the top of the tower in order to double the water storage capacity for the project. Once this tank was connected, the small tank below took a feed from it to take water to Mission Support next door. 

When we first started on site, the plot was just bush so he had to create our own secure compound using four ex-shipping containers. Now that the site is well developed it was time to start moving these containers to new locations. This container was moved across site today and will become part of a training workshop.

Independence Day

Today, Zambia celebrated its 49th year of Independence.
At Ipusukilo, the children divided into groups and designed posters with facts and figures about Zambia and its years of Independence. They then had to present their posters and research to the other groups.

Grade 7 exams

Today, the Zambian national grade 7 examinations started. Pray for our 3 boys Bartholomew, Justin and Philip as they sit these exams this week.
Today was IciBemba and Creative and Technology Studies.
Tuesday: English and Integrated Science. Wednesday: Mathematics and Social and Development Studies. Thursday: Special Paper 1. Friday: Special Paper 2.

What does our garden grow?

Laston drives our bus and takes the children to school every day. There's a few trips each day, and in between these he works in the garden. Until earlier this year the garden wasn't producing many good veggies so we contacted some friends of his who gave us some advice and things started to improve. In June we had a bumper crop of tomatoes just at the time they more than trebled in price at the market. At the moment, there's cabbages, rape and onions growing well and being harvested.

Most cabbages weighed 3-4 kilos!