I started this blog as a documentary about my project raising funds for Ketty, my young deaf friend in Eastern Province, Zambia. Truth to tell, Ketty’s fine…… …. she and I have grown closer in a most delightful way. She’s 11 years old now and the path that has unfolded for her appears to beContinue reading A different World
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 comingContinue reading Christmas 2019… where has the year gone?
….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 sinceContinue reading Fun and Adventures then back to third year at School
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 replenishedContinue reading nearly the end of a second year at school
Cholera, Malaria, drought, hunger. Africa can be a hard place.Continue reading Not all plain sailing
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 stillContinue reading A first year completed
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