One final thought of the day - this is what typical Zambian feet look like walking for 75 years in the dirt without shoes on!

Here our the main workers in Kasuba.  In the middle is the main person in charge of the rural health center, Mary.  She is not even a nurse but delivers babies, about 3 a day, puts in IVs, gives out medicines for simple things.  In the red is Calvin who assists who - a very energetic smart man who peddles the Zambambulance - a bike with a cart on it to take the sick patients to the hospital, about a 10 mile bike ride on dirt paths.  On the right is the head of the village, Mr. Kasuba, who is very proactive trying to improve the lives of his villagers.

We camped over night in this village so save on travel.  Here Becky is blowing up her air mattress while Sidney looks on.  Behind her is the open air shower, complete with an orange bucket that rained hot water on us and behind that is the long-drop bathroom - essentially a keyhole looking hole in the ground to a deep pit - fun!  We woke up to pigs running around our campsite!

Yesterday and today we all went to a rural village called Kasuba.  This was the first time a medical team was here.  It is about a 2 1/2 hour bumpy car ride to this remote town on the top of the lake.  It has about 2000 folks in it.  We set up a little clinic space in front of a small rural health center.  Two workers from Samfya, here Sakeni with the bag, and also Sydney came to help interpret.  We did lots of training of the church volunteers and two workers in this health center and saw over 160 patients in these two days.

Also on Hudson's farm is a fishery - here are two of his 3 ponds he has built to support the growth of tilapia.  He so far has about 450 young seedlings in the back pond.  God surprised him by finding a natural cold ater spring on the property which supplies water to this area year round.  He is raising soy, corn, and sunflowers to provide feed for the pigs and fish, which will be producing a natural fertilizer for the fruit and vegetables he is also growing, including bananas, sugar cane, watermelon, merenga trees and others on this farm.  Hudson also in his spare time is the pastor of a growing Church.  All to use his gifts to spread the ministry of Christ!

Today we also got to visit our old friend Hudson.  Here he is showing his new piggery to Holly.  We are working on support to help him with his new project called Hudaga - his vision is to use a large self-sustaining farm to support a pre-school which he wants to build on this property about 14 km away from downtown Samfya, for orphans in the area.  His first year he had 10 orphans through pre-school - one of them is now the top student in his first grade class!

 Busy, busy day in Samfya.  We were in the nursing office at CHA, walking in at 8AM as usual, and the line of people was out the door.  We saw over 140 patients!  It turns out someone announced over the local radio station that the American doctors were in town - we never ever saw so many people!  Plus we had to do a training for the Home Based Care volunteers on wound management, seen in the pic above.  Here Mwewa is an unfortunate 21 yr old with a severe chronic wound on his leg, likely osteomyelitis.  We tried to teach the care workers how to care for wounds like this and when to seek doctor treatment.  Mwewa needs prayers that it will heal.