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What a difference a year makes!
This year Premier listeners sponsored over 200 children in Keembe, Zambia transforming the lives of children living there and ensuring they have access to clean water, healthcare, a sustainable food source and an eduction.
Listen in on Premier to hear from children in Keembe and what Christmas means to them.
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"Happy Christmas" from Keembe!
Bridgitte also visited a child sponsored in the last appeal by Elizabeth Barnes from Mitcham.
Just because a child is born into poverty it doesn't mean they have to live their life that way. Sponsor a child today.
Bridgitte goes to Zambia
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Bridgitte gets ready for take off (what a scarf!)
Bridgitte outside the Keembe Area Development Office.
Team Zambia! All the guys from World Vision team. Bridgitte is so thankful to them for making this trip happen!
Bridgitte visits a sponsored child Given and his family.
Given and his mother were filled with joy after receiving a present from their sponsor Elizabeth Barnes - a woman who also happens to be a Premier listener!
It’s illegal, but the only way to get around for many in Zambia is sitting in the back of a truck!
Bridgitte chats with Axon, father of Tanamela, a child who's life who has been changed via child sponsorship.
Bridgitte with beautiful Patricia. She is caring for 8 children alone... despite her hardship she takes pride in caring for her flowers, which are beautiful!
Sheala Basic School where the children start school at 7am! They also delivered a fantastic rendition of their favourite playground song, which Bridgitte enjoyed!
Another day another chat with a lovely family. They are doing all they can to provide for their children.
Despite having very little themselves many families welcomed us with gifts. Many thanks to Charles Tembo and other lead farmers in this photo for some wonderful pumpkins!
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Bridgitte's Zambia Blog - Day Five
My time with the people of Keembe is at an end and all I can say is Twa- lumba (I’m not actually sure if that’s how you spell it) but that’s how it’s pronounced
Twa - lumba.
It’s a word I’ve got quite adept at saying, as I’ve been speaking to those living in the village of Keembe.
Mothers, father’s grandparents and fathers have been surprisingly open with me about their worries.
When I compare there honesty to the UK, I think its highly unlikely that if I knocked on the doors and asked the average Brit to reveal details of whether they were behind with the mortgage. Or able to buy their children’s school uniforms that many would reveal their true circumstance.
Yet when I visited Axon, Charles, Sophie and many others they did just that. In fact Agnes still managed a smile when she revealed that often she would put her grandchildren to bed without food and hungry.
Despite not having enough for herself she still offered to give me a pumpkin she had grown. Something I declined, I just couldn’t take from someone who had so little.
Later I learned that I should have taken the pumpkin, so as not to cause offence (but hindsight is a great thing.. I simply didn’t know!).
I mention this because I was stuck by her kindness what a biblical encounter I had witnessed.
A mother with nothing giving all she has to a stranger.
Sponsorship offers Agnes and her family help with growing food for her family and also offers children education and healthcare.
The cost is £18 a month, just 60pence a day.
If you decide to answer the call for help from the people of Keembe.
I’d like to say
Thank you...
or just like the locals...
Twa- lumba
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