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| Craft night in the village. Amazing how popular cut-up straws and dental floss can be! |
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| One of the many porridge demonstrations to help kids get better nutrition. This one mixed pounded boiled cassava, sweet potatoes, and pounded greens and sesame seeds. It was a huge success! |
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| Almost all villagers walk 2-3 kilometers to their fields every day and harvest what they can carry on their heads! |
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| This drama group was just trained how to do skits about HIV prevention. |
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| Volunteers enjoying time with the monkey before he was turned over to ZAWA (Zambian wildlife authority). A different Peace Corps volunteer saw him almost being poached by villagers, so intervened. |
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| It's bush meat season! This one is a shoulder of dika. It's also building season and villagers are in a rush to get their houses finished or added-onto before the rains come. The one in the background is making a window frame. |
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| Peace Corps volunteers were all honored guests at the Chisemwa Cha Lunda traditional ceremony. |
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| And a little bike excursion to Luawu mission after the ceremony. |
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| Not rocks . . . termite mounds that come in crazy formations! |
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| The traditional drink for ceremonies like Chisemwa Cha Lunda is fermented millet that sits in dried gourds for several days until it starts to bubble! |
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| These kids wanted a sneak peek of the ceremony! |
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| Peace Corps volunteers posing with the Chief and his wife. |
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| Scott and Costa stop for a refreshing water break on one last bike trip to the Zambezi source. |
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| The source monument is technically 5k from the Congo, but they put the sign here for tourists like us to think they went there anyway. |
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| I think these trees drank up all the source water, because the Zambezi source itself was dried up when we went there. |
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| Ladies showing off their new dresses they got because their families had built proper pit latrine toilets. Thanks Aunt Joan! |
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| Some bush trails near our house. |
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| Badger and her kitten one day they had to be separated and go to two different Peace Corps volunteers before we left the village :(. |
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