PROGRAM UPDATE: SPRING, 2008. (Pictures will be added when I can locate our webmaster, who is somewhere traversing the globe.)

The other day I had a bad scare.

I’m grateful to have arrived home safe & sound from Nairobi.

I've covered an enormous amount of territory and gotten much done in my 4 weeks in Zambia & Kenya. As you know, needs are desperate. There are so many good ideas for helping, but not enough hands available--so yours are precious to me.

We started the solar stove project, in Naivasha.  I had squash that was cooked in the solar stove and it was delicious!  And we pasteurized water with no difficulty in little time.  All are eager to pursue this project, as with the troubles, firewood and charcoal are more difficult to come by.  How positively stupid that homes and possessions are being burned wantonly!

HARAMBEE projects have now begun in Zambia.  There is a women's co-operative poultry project in Nyimba and a new craft initiative in Petauke.  Church groups have formed to help the hundreds of HIV orphans in this small town, and they are desperately looking for ways to care for these children.