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LearnServe Zambia 2011 Photos

October 17, 2011 Check out the LSZ11 photos on Picasa! Here’s the direct link: https://picasaweb.google.com/ggrebski/LearnServeZambia2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCKb83t-W8JXoeg…

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Fixing bicycles in Zambia

September 12, 2011 “Anna Shchelokova probably couldn’t imagine, growing up in Russia, that she would one day be an American high school student repairing bicycles on a summer trip to Zambia and preparing to use a $1,000 award to start her own teen fitness business venture.  But that’s…

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Jerome and Stephanie on our Final Day With Africa Directions

July 10, 2011 After awakening to roosters, the 18 of us packed onto the bus with our multitude of donations and departed for Africa Directions. Although we have done the drive twice already, the sights along the way are still shocking and intriguing.  The first part of the…

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Liz reflects on Chikumbuso

July 9, 2011   After three days spent at  Chikumbuso, I think as a group we have come to the realization of what it means to be greatful, pure of heart, and lucky. Chikumbuso was once one of the many bars and brothels plaguing every corner of the…

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Classroom Lessons at Chikumbuso

Today, we observed and taugt lessons in the various classrooms at Chikumbuso, a community center for orphans, single mothers and widows. My group observed and worked with Mr. Misheck Mvula’s  6th grade class. Mr. Misheck started the class off with a lesson on converting fractions…

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Finally, pictures from Zambia

July 7, 2011 Boy, I really didn’t anticipate the difficulty of getting pictures up on the blog. But Gaby was a superstar and got everything together last night, so here is the link: https://picasaweb.google.com/ggrebski/LearnServeZambia2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCKb83t-W8JXoeg# We have many more photos, but here is just a taste of our time…

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Nadja Reflects on Chikumbuso Community Center

July 6, 2011 Hello Everyone,   I hope you are all doing well in the States because  we are doing wonderful here, in Zambia, Africa.  Our experiences here Zambia have been unforgetable and, certainly, irreplacable.  Working with the kids, tasting foriegn cuisines, TRAVELING over Zambia, and seeing and…

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KP on July 5th Back at Africa Directions

Well finally its my turn to write about my entry in the daily blog. So let me cut to the chase: today was a very interesting day for myself; it had its ups and downs but in the end it ended quite well. The day…

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Noni on July 4

Happy Independence Day! Today was a travel day. We spent the whole day in the bus– it took us 8 hours to get from Livingston to Lousaka. So, for my blog, I decided to write about things you see on the road in Zambia that…

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Bryon on Victoria Falls and Safari

July 4, 2011 Today was great…..it was the most adventurous day of the trip we visited one of the seven natural wonders of the world: Victoria Falls. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.  The water clashing amongst the rocks was so amazing. As Nadja…

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