Arrived and Alive Our PCPC group have arrived and are all doing great. Everyone has showered and rested up and we are off to see the city! We will post more later! – Alissa Hollimon Alissa Rosebrough December 31, 2011
Kershaw’s Challenge Update Please read our update letter and the website will be updated shortly! We are so excited!! http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Kershaw-s-Challenge-Update.html?soid=1103609831636&aid=CN47GGlbjNY Alissa Rosebrough October 27, 2011
Kershaws Challenge Creative Giving We received quite possibly the cutest card from a kiddo that helped raise funds for Kershaw’s Challenge: Nine year old Rowan Moore, is a big Dodger fan, in fact her whole family is. Rowan decided to help us out for Kershaw’s challenge and raise funds by having a snack stand at her… Alissa Rosebrough October 11, 2011
Calm Elections! Last Thursday night Zambia time the election results were announced after over 48 hours of waiting. The winner was Michael Sata, and for the first time in Zambia’s history a member of the Patriotic Front party has won. Here is Sata getting sworn in: We aren’t really sure about what… Alissa Rosebrough September 26, 2011
Election Day Tomorrow morning when you wake up (Tuesday Morning) Zambia will be voting for their next president. This is a highly controversial election this time and many people dislike the current president, Banda. In fact it was controversial how he got into office the first time. They believe he will rig… Alissa Rosebrough September 19, 2011
Sweet Andrew This past visit to Zambia we became very concerned about one of our sponsored children, Andrew. Andrew is 12 years old and is HIV positive. He visits the clinic one a month and is on his medicine, (ARV’s ). Andrew has always been a concern for us because of his… Alissa Rosebrough August 17, 2011
New Folks The rest of our team safely arrived in Lusaka on Saturday. Stephanie and Avery’s flight arrived almost 2 hours late so there was alot of waiting around at the airport (pretty typical for Zambia). But we got everything together and made it back to Shakespeare Lodge minus one bag which… Alissa Rosebrough July 25, 2011
Arise Africa Engagement! Yep you heard it, Caroline and Michael (our chicken farmers) are engaged! Michael popped the question while they were in Victoria Falls last week. Caroline has received many questions from kids this week about her ring! We offered for them to get married this Sunday at Peter’s church but they… Alissa Rosebrough July 21, 2011
Turn right at the tomato stand… Well it is 5am on July 20th and I am up thanks to jet lag. But I slept much more than I did two nights ago! Yesterday July 19th was absolute chaos. After sleeping for only two hours last night (hello jet lag) John and Bwalya and I headed out… Alissa Rosebrough July 19, 2011
On The Ground and Rolling I arrived in Lusaka today and met the rest of our Americans who have been here for a few days. John, Megan, Bwalya, and I wasted no time heading to the coffee shop and organizing all our calendars together for the next few weeks. It was complete chaos as we… Alissa Rosebrough July 18, 2011
Buseco Market Fire Yesterday we learned that the local market in the area of one of our community schools had caught on fire. We had many kids that lived in the market, in their “homes” made of sticks and plastic tarps. This market is also where a lot of wood is cut and… Alissa Rosebrough June 22, 2011
