Pastor Justin's Fields; Building Materials Delivered

After an early breakfast we went to meet Pastor Justin for a tour of his fields where he showed off his bumper crops of maize (corn), sweet potatoes and ground-nuts (peanuts). Everything is done by hand by he and his wife - no mechanization - not even oxen to plough - and everything growing only on the rainfall that comes - no irrigation. They were very grateful because they had been able to use some of the money, that we (Poultney Family) have been sending them, to buy fertilizer which has greatly improved the yields. They will harvest enough food to feed themselves and their five children as well as other less fortunate people in the community until the harvest this time next year. We left there with a big sack of fresh produce from their fields which we ate over the next few days.

Next stop was the clinic to drop off a hockey bag full of used clothes - mostly infants and children that we had brought from Canada - for the head nurse to distribute to needy young mothers. (Clothes from two of the other hockey bags were distributed to the workers on the farm - each person receiving one item - and the fourth bag of clothes was given to Pastor Justin to give to the orphans that the church looks out for. )

In the afternoon we went over to the school to await the arrival of the truck that was to deliver the building supplies that we had purchased for the completion of the new teachers houses. It was running late so Logan got an impromptu soccer game going with some of the senior students as they were waiting around anyway to help off-load the truck. It was a blistering hot day - 40C in the open under the sun - so I was glad that I had the excuse of taking photos and video rather than playing ! Great excitement when the truck finally showed up and much activity as it was unloaded and everything stacked away in secure storerooms. Logan, Harley and I then headed into Kabwe for the weekly volleyball game with the missionary group there - as before a lot of fun.