I hope you are well and enjoying the remainder of our summer even though we are officially in Autumn!
My husband Paul and I funded a school to be built in Livingstone, Zambia in 2019. Through our sponsor a child campaign every child has a good meal and an education which is not available like in the UK.
After our trip being cancelled in 2020 due to covid we finally visited in September! What an experience it was too. firstly to meet Paul Kamwi (the guy in the pink shirt in the picture above) after sponsoring him since the age of 5 and now 29 it was our first meeting with him. He is like a son to us and after losing his mum at the age of 13 we are the only family he has.
I feel everyone should visit a poor country in their lifetime, so you can experience and understand what hardship really is. What I witnessed was true poverty but one thing I also witnessed was how happy those children at our school were. We took a whole suitcase of items for them, one being a floor piano, you would have thought we had just invented the light bulb!
So many lovely experiences we had with all the children and how grateful they were to receive even a pencil with a rubber on the top. We played British games with them, musical chairs and statues and there was much excitement and laughter.
The best thing was that they had practised a welcome song for us, traditional african dancing and poems. Which had me in tears of joy and happiness. All this was just a dream for Paul Kamwi when he qualified as a teacher and was unable to find a teaching post.
So if you have a dream or an ambition you can make it happen, sometimes we don't know how we are going to achieve it but just having the thoughts and the drive is enough to start. I believe in universal energy and if you can give to others it will come back to you tenfold.
If anyone would be interested in joining our Pride Rock Community and sponsoring a child please let me know, we have space for at least another 5 children but unable to enrol without a UK Sponsor.This is our Facebook page for more information and pictures etc https://www.facebook.com/procktrustschool or if you would like to donate for future projects you can donate here https://gofund.me/f32e29e5
Thank you
Maxine