She is a widow with 4 kids. At that time she was just given a microloan of $30 for a kitchen farm she was so proud of, making $100 that first year. This past May I saw her again, stronger and making it on her own. This time she is bright and exuberant and healthy. She got a second loan of $100 which she put in to knitting clothes, one of which she is wearing brilliantly. God is great!
Thursday, October 8, 2009
SUCCESS STORIES
Hey gang, this is Gilgal. I saw her for the first time at her home one year ago. She was recovering at that time with her recent illness with AIDS. 
She is a widow with 4 kids. At that time she was just given a microloan of $30 for a kitchen farm she was so proud of, making $100 that first year. This past May I saw her again, stronger and making it on her own. This time she is bright and exuberant and healthy. She got a second loan of $100 which she put in to knitting clothes, one of which she is wearing brilliantly. God is great!
She is a widow with 4 kids. At that time she was just given a microloan of $30 for a kitchen farm she was so proud of, making $100 that first year. This past May I saw her again, stronger and making it on her own. This time she is bright and exuberant and healthy. She got a second loan of $100 which she put in to knitting clothes, one of which she is wearing brilliantly. God is great!
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
This is one of SCCPs home based clients on the left with his home based care volunteer. Early in the year he was quite sick with HIV but with SCCPs support and meds for his illness he got stronger and back to work. With a microloan of $30 and some teaching, he was able to build this great kitchen garden, which fed him and his family and made about $100 for himself. With continued success, he will be in line for a second loan of $100 next year to start another project. SCCP takes on 100 new clients a year with Willow and Bright Hope's support. We were able to train 24 great volunteers this trip how to recognize when clients were really sick and needed attention and also how to check on compliance with the meds. Lots of great things are happening in Samfya!!!
Bupe
Muleshani,
This is Bupe and her mom. Bupe was born 2 yrs ago with bad congental defects - spina bifida causing a bulge on the bottom of her spine and paralysis of her legs, along with deformities of her leg bones. Through God's ability to connect people, we ran into a group called Cure international - a group of American Orthopedic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons who try to fix congenital defects in far off lands like Zambia. Through a meeting at Willow Creek we found out they just opened a new hospital in the capital of Zambia this past year, and with a little fund-raising, we were able to hook up Bupe with Cure, Zambia. 2 wks prior to our visit, she had just had her surgery on her spine and leg and was doing great by the time of our visit, ready to try to get home. With a little work, the hope is to get her walking!
This is Bupe and her mom. Bupe was born 2 yrs ago with bad congental defects - spina bifida causing a bulge on the bottom of her spine and paralysis of her legs, along with deformities of her leg bones. Through God's ability to connect people, we ran into a group called Cure international - a group of American Orthopedic Surgeons and Neurosurgeons who try to fix congenital defects in far off lands like Zambia. Through a meeting at Willow Creek we found out they just opened a new hospital in the capital of Zambia this past year, and with a little fund-raising, we were able to hook up Bupe with Cure, Zambia. 2 wks prior to our visit, she had just had her surgery on her spine and leg and was doing great by the time of our visit, ready to try to get home. With a little work, the hope is to get her walking!
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
We have been working hard in the Bible School Clinic and home visits for the last 5 days. THis is Prosper in the red shirt - he has HIV and has been with the home program for 1 yr, unfortunately he has not been doing well for the last month, he may have TB. He was brought in from a home visit by our nurse Paul with bad dehydration, diarrhea - we pumped him with IV fluids and got him eating and taking new antibiotics and he felt much better. STill so much work to be done here.
Lesa omepale
This is Chanda - her husband just died at the same week that she was told she has HIV, along with her 18 month old, Prosper. She has 6 other children that she now has to try to feed on her own, but she is sick now and cannot find food. Her son here was extremely lethargic, not taking her breast milk, which has dried up anyway because of her illness. She is going to the local hospital next week to check her CD4 count, but it will be hard to feed her. SCCP is trying to help people like Chanda - there are too many stories like this though.Friday, October 2, 2009
Samfyan Eves
During the day we work hard in the clinic or hut calls, but in the evening we have relaxed well African style. Last night we had a dinner under this full moon on this bluff overlooking this gorgeous lake. Mark and Carmen are some of God's awesome people. They made this lovely dinner for us with an awesome dessert with Zambian tea and we stayed out there for hours laughing, telling stories, and singing. Paul was able to use Carmen's guitar and remembered lots of songs from the 70's including Mark's favorite, John Denver. Some of us even saw this bright shooting star that fell out of the sky. Believe it or not, not a lot of bugs out these nights - it is the end of the dry season.
I just got back from hut calls - saw some of the poorest people I have seen since coming, many without any way to get food, many sick with HIV and unfortunately because of how the government hospital runs things here - running out of meds alot which will mean they will only get sicker and the HIV will get stronger here. We will be working on ways to prevent it, including working with Heather, a young Willow Creek volunteer right out of college who will be here for the next year. Despite how much we put into this place, so, so much more needs to be done.
Will try to keep you posted as I can - internet access is sketchy out here.
Lesa omepale (God Bless) Mike
I just got back from hut calls - saw some of the poorest people I have seen since coming, many without any way to get food, many sick with HIV and unfortunately because of how the government hospital runs things here - running out of meds alot which will mean they will only get sicker and the HIV will get stronger here. We will be working on ways to prevent it, including working with Heather, a young Willow Creek volunteer right out of college who will be here for the next year. Despite how much we put into this place, so, so much more needs to be done.
Will try to keep you posted as I can - internet access is sketchy out here.
Lesa omepale (God Bless) Mike
Hey gang, we arrived in Samfya Tuesday night and started working the next day. Been seeing and doing alot. After a 9hr drive through the only paved road from West to East of Zambia, we have arrived safely on the shores of beautiful Lake Bangwuela. We have been working in the Bible clinic we set up last year, seeing 15 people a piece each 1/2 day. Mary Ann and Patty have been very busy teaching massage and exercises to 5 bright Zambians who have been practicing on the many locals with back, neck pain. We are going on hut calls daily with the local volunteers to visit the very sick, and stopping in at the local hospital, pictured below, just to see how things are going. Still so much to do here.
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