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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 […]

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 (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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Two students wrote about haggling at one of Lusaka’s unique craft markets. Run by the Dutch Reformed Church in Lusaka, this market is open on […]

On Friday (June 25th) was LearnServe Zambia Group 1 last day at Chikumbuso. I found myself on the verge of tears several times during the […]

Yesterday was our final day at Chikumbuso. The Chikumbuso school was filled with many memories that were both fun and awkward. The widow’s project, the […]

The Chikumbuso project operates a school for orphans, and includes many other projects, one of which helps widows earn an income.  Sewing and crocheting projects help turn […]

My story is about giving the widows of Chikumbuso a few plastic bags. It was after the second activity of the day and Elizabeth came […]