Pictures of Uganda and Zambia

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The above picture is of Leslie and I eating lunch with the children apart of Watoto. Watoto works with orphaned children and puts them in a home with 7 other children and a single mother. They provide, housing, food and clean water for each of the homes.
Her name is Precious... and she lives up to her name, eh? She is the youngest that attends the school in Zambia that we visited.
Lunch may be the only meal these children get in a day. So the school provides them with what is called Nshima (ground and boiled corn grains - much like grits). Not much flavour but it will keep a belly full.

I love the African sunset. I don't think I've ever been so close to the sun before on the equator.
Many of you have given money towards the chicken project in Zambia. Here they are at their best! They were slaughtering the chickens while we were there to sell them. The process is, ummm, let's say less sophisticated than how we do in the West. Did you know that chickens make an awful meowing sound when they're being killed? We found that out every morning at 5am for about 4 days. And well, when you only own one knife, that knife is not only used for cutting your vegetables to eat, but also for killing chickens. And it so happened that this knife happened to be a cerrated bread knife - so a little sawing was actually done to slit the throats. Was that too much detail?



Visiting the villages.

This is me with some of the women in the villages. This was one of my favourite parts of our time in Africa.
This rat happens to be one of the smaller ones. Every night they would come out and visit us throughout the entire house. We would wake up to them in the middle of the night scrambling across the floor, in the ceiling above our bed, and in the walls in our room. And one night, we were awakened to the terrible sound of the rats fighting. Did you know they actually scream when they're hurt? It is definitely one of the most terrible sounds - that and the chickens meowing. Quite disturbing actually...