Chikumbuso Project
Wednesday was our first long-awaited trip to Chikumbuso School. Our bus pulled through the school gates and greeted with shouts, curious on-lookers, and a lot […]
Category: Zambia
Kankumba School Bicycle Distribution
Last night, we had two reflection topics up for discussion. One was about our individual reasons for coming to Zambia after we heard Dave at […]
Preparing for a Garden at the Monze Farm School
Today, June 30tht, LearnServe Zambia Group 1 heads to Monze, about 3 hours south of Lusaka, to visit and stay with a rural farm community. […]
Seeing the Norm
Today we were giving the bicycles we built yesterday in a rural village school. We were wore the traditional dress of chitangas, they had printed […]
If I Were in Their Shoes
Yesterday June 29th, we went to a village in the Chongwe District, 100 kilometers (about 60 miles) east of Lusaka. The group assembled 16 of the […]
World Bicycle Relief
Yesterday our group spent most of our day at offices of World Bicycle Relief (WBR), where we learned about the organization and Zambian history from the […]
Arrival of Group 2
The Red Sea was too far to the east to see, but we saw the enormous dunes of the Sahara, and more dunes, sand, sand, sand, […]
Two Wheels Saving Thousands of Lives!
World Bicycle Relief (http://www.worldbicyclerelief.org/) assembles custom-designed bicycles for African road conditions in Zambia and provides them to aid workers, teachers, and students. Their parts are made […]
Simple Solutions
While working at Chikumbuso, our team filled any small amount of downtime by playing on the school’s play pump, a merry-go-round-like apparatus which pumps 5 […]
A Different Sort of Sunday
On our first Sunday in Zambia, both LearnServe Zambia groups were invited to the house of the Director of World Bicycle Relief in Zambia. To […]