Let's Celebrate!

What would you do for a piece of chicken? Or a link of sausage? These kids get up early in the morning and line up at the cook shack before the meal is even prepared. Why? For many of them, this is the only meat they will taste all year.

Food just to fill the tummy is the often un-met goal. The porridge received at school is frequently the only meal for the day. This is especially true this year with Zambia experiencing a drought and crops drying up. Even the famed Victoria Falls has only a trickle of water. This special meal and day is the annual Christmas celebration the children in the schools have come to anticipate with eagerness and joy. The head master, Emmanuel Mumba reported that, "The program was characterized with the following activities; singing, poetry's, sketches and story telling. In all these presentations the importance of education and healthy living were the main ideas depicted. We had a positive involvement of the "Parents committee" ,board management and Kafwa in the preparations of the meals! There was rice, nsima, sausage's', vegetables,chickens and shake and sip(maheu) as meals.

Oh, yes. Please note the other treasured item they received. A large bottle of maheu, a sweetened yogurt drink, that the children are proudly displaying in the picture. Every child enjoys a decadent sweet.