centre for the villagers. Eventually we plan to invite to the centre a committee of ten men and ten women from each of the pilot villages to come in to take their loan of chickens, goats, pigs and seed and lean how to maximise these into a business proposition so that their village can build community school and support the teachers, give the children books and even uniforms were necessary. They can then distribute the benefits to the entire village and especially those in dire need. The emphasise will always be to help them help themselves.

Chickens for a Nurse - While I was there we set up one micro loan scheme and lent a lady who had adopted five children chickens to start a chicken farm. We paid for her oldest daughter, who had achieved great grades at school, to go to Nursing College. Her mother will repay us from the proceeds of her chicken farm. This is the first of a number of micro loans that Cary intends to set up. A vehicle has now been purchased to help with the work.

We recently took a trip to Zambia to spend some time with Cary to find out what the people of the chosen area, around the town of Mansa wanted from us as help. We visited grannies living in the worst mud huts, roof falling in, them and the orphans they cared for sleeping directly on the mud floor, no beds, no mosquito nets and desperate to survive. It was heart breaking but there was always a smile for us everywhere we went.

We have been given the great gift of a 100 acres of land near the Mansa river by their Chief. How we use this generous gift will evolve but at present we see it as a place for our bank of livestock and seed; a centre to teach the villagers about new crops that would better suit their land and as somewhere for those without any land or home.

Cary needed a base to work from and a roof over his own head so we rented a house in Mansa that he is using for respite care for some of the very poorly grannies and as an education