Mwashibukeni / Good morning,
Being back on LifeSpring farm in Zambia has been just amazing and truly hard to put into words.
The farm has new crops, a few renovations, new staff but truly seems like yesterday when I last left. Trying my best to learn new bemba terms, getting to know all the staff and kids names quickly, plus deal with my head being tested with the altitude level of 1500m
Derry and Mike, son Dave & girlfriend Ashley (all from England) are running the farm at the moment [Tony & Josie are back in UK returning end of September]. Sue Beare (my nurse friend) is still living in her sweet l'l house here!
Being back on LifeSpring farm in Zambia has been just amazing and truly hard to put into words.
The farm has new crops, a few renovations, new staff but truly seems like yesterday when I last left. Trying my best to learn new bemba terms, getting to know all the staff and kids names quickly, plus deal with my head being tested with the altitude level of 1500m
Derry and Mike, son Dave & girlfriend Ashley (all from England) are running the farm at the moment [Tony & Josie are back in UK returning end of September]. Sue Beare (my nurse friend) is still living in her sweet l'l house here!
Plus, there are a total of 3 other guests at this time (see photo below), Tanya (23) from England, Jérémie (18) from Switzerland and Matt (37) from England who is permenant part-time like myself and here to build the school for 360 poverty-stricken children.
The farm has a formed a charity called SOBIA (Springs of Blessing in Action) much like Isubilo (Hope) that I worked with in Chufbu whereby it aims to make a difference by providing local communities with education and training to lead to empowering and encouraging the people to become self-supporting whilst engaging their community in joint initiatives.
My role is to assist with expanding the Foundation internationally and to work with Ashley in rolling out policies, business structures, fundraising and normal day-to-day activities to build up the Foundation and prepare for a very large school being built for 2009 opening.
What else can I tell you about?
The sunsets are as HUGE and beautiful as ever,
the colours of the tree blossoms are vibrant
the 10 dogs make for lots of company while walking around the farm!!
Mike has taken me for a tractor ride around the 9 hectres of bananas
our cooks are making some great new dishes
the weather is spectacular, as always...
must run to work, back to you soon!
Thanks for your comments, don't be afraid to pass along any questions too -- love to hear from home!
Nallykootewa/Love,
Tracey
3 comments:
Hey Trace -- I'm glad your travels went well and that you're settling in. You sound so excited and happy. I feel like a broken record, but I'm so proud of what you're doing and think you're amazing. You're making a huge difference in this world. I am looking forward to reading about your adventures...be safe my friend.
News from Canada...(sounds pretty boring compared to your life)...school starts this week... Rhonda has taken the baton for the next PCBC meeting so I think we'll muddle through without our trusty exec secretary...Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk is this weekend and I think I'll hit $5k in fundraising (yippee).
That's all for now...love you!
Laura
Hey Tracey,
Glad to hear you got to Africa safely! Take good care of yourself while
you're there and talk to you soon
C :)
Hi Lady, So glad to hear you are safe and sound and loving being back on the farm. Look forward to hearing about all of the wonderful work you are doing.
Love ya, Kathleen
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