Christmas 2019… where has the year gone?

By: Ulingana December 23, 2019February 17, 2020 Kettydeaf child, fundraising, Ketty2 Comments

It’s nearly a year since we last posted! I have to start as I always do by thanking everyone who has donated to the project, and of course to those of you who make regular donations. Once again Ketty has proved that her schooling has given an outlet for her bright intelligence by coming…

Fun and Adventures then back to third year at School

By: Ulingana January 27, 2019August 28, 2019 Kettyaid project, deaf child, deaf education, fundraising, game park, Ketty, Marula Lodge, poverty, South Luangwa4 Comments

….this is Africa. It smells like Africa, it feels like only sub-saharan Africa can feel, it gets in your blood, under your skin, just like they say. Either that or it freaks you out, the poverty, the utterly different culture, the snakes, the spiders, the malaria, and you never come back. I haven’t posted since…

Not all plain sailing

By: Ulingana January 10, 2018April 23, 2019 Kettyaid project, deaf child, fundraising, Ketty, poverty, volunteering, zambia, Zambian Tales4 Comments

Cholera, Malaria, drought, hunger. Africa can be a hard place.

A good year!

By: Ulingana November 20, 2016April 26, 2019 Kettyaid to africa, fundraising, karma yoga, Ketty, volunteering, Zambian Tales18 Comments

The Goddess of the World says, ‘don’t think you can help my children. That task is mine and you will never understand my ways for I am the chaos and order of Nature, in all her beauty. But for having that wish, I will bless you again and again’.

About Ulingana

A story of a young deaf Zambian girl, Ketty, and the opportunity of an education for her.

Ketty, how it all started

Ketty lives in Eastern Province, Zambia. She’s was six years old when I met her in January 2016. Diagnosed as ‘profoundly deaf’ since birth, she needs, specialist education. We’re in luck. Zambia is a big country and has just three deaf schools, but one of them happens to be only 120 km away. I met…

Eastern Zambia

Eastern Zambia is a ‘Subsistence Agriculture’ area of Africa. Poverty in a naturally joyful culture.

Christmas 2019… where has the year gone?

By: Ulingana December 23, 2019February 17, 2020

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Fun and Adventures then back to third year at School

By: Ulingana January 27, 2019August 28, 2019

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nearly the end of a second year at school

By: Ulingana November 14, 2018March 9, 2019

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Wow time flies. It’s a year since I posted almost. The last post I did was indeed quite dark! They were strange times for us all with the cholera and the drought. The harvest was dreadful as we expected and in two weeks I’ll return to wells running dry because the water table wasn’t replenished…

Not all plain sailing

By: Ulingana January 10, 2018April 23, 2019

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Cholera, Malaria, drought, hunger. Africa can be a hard place.

A first year completed

By: Ulingana December 17, 2017March 8, 2019

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We went to pick up Ketty a week ago for the long summer holiday at the end of her first year at Magwero School for the Deaf. She was so happy to see us; myself she hadn’t seen since last February just after she’d started at the school. I’m struck by how young she still…

The star of the show

By: Ulingana September 9, 2017March 8, 2019

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Hi to everyone again, from my hilltop haven in Wales. So I told you wrong in the last post. In fact Ketty started her education proper in her second term. The first was cramming sign language, which I guess continues. But she’s started on mathematics and introduction to science and other stuff. They give school…

Settled in at school

By: Ulingana August 1, 2017August 1, 2017

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Seems ages since I posted. The fact is that I’m now living in a Welsh hilltop ashram and everyday life seems so far away. But we’re a busy place, established and run by a renowned Yoga Master, Swami Nishchalananda Saraswati, so there are courses and many people passing through. Many of them now know of…

Ketty’s first month at Magwero school for the deaf.

By: Ulingana February 14, 2017February 14, 2017

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We managed to keep away for a month! After we dropped Ketty off for her first taste of school (https://ulingana.wordpress.com/2017/01/17/a-very-special-school/) we only had one communication from the head, that Ketty was doing fine. Alice & Catherine bought loads of vegetables & stuff in Chipata, on the way, then we went to the school. Saturday, day…

A very special school….

By: Ulingana January 17, 2017

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This year the rains have been good. Very good. The road that I described last time as looking like the road to paradise is even more so; verdant wetlands bordering a lake, big fields of maize every so often, and all framed by the towering wooded hills that bring the rain clouds. It looks like…

…that’s the worst bit over…

By: Ulingana January 7, 2017January 7, 2017

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A couple of days ago, Alice and I sat down with Ketty, armed with pictures of Magwero school, maps, pictures to explain that I had to return to the UK in 2 months. Purpose… to tell her she was going to school, AND she was going to stay there during term time. Gulp, I was…