Director’s Blog

Last December when I was home visiting, St. Timothy’s Catholic Church held a shoe drive for my children here in Zambia. Over 150 pairs of shoes were collected in all the various sizes, packaged up Read more…

Since I moved to Zambia, there are so many things I have learned that I never dreamed I would need to know. This upcoming weekend’s activities lead me to yet another one of these experiences! Read more…

Late afternoon last Friday, I was looking forward to a nice quiet evening home with the boys–maybe even watching a movie on the laptop. All those thoughts came to a halt when two men I Read more…

Some days, it just hits me again–the reason I’m here. Today was one of those days.   We got a new little boy, who is maybe seven or eight years old. His name is David. Read more…

As we approach Mother’s Day — an event that is not celebrated in our home — I wonder if we can appreciate the difficulties faced by a child who has no mother, or has only a mother Read more…

It’s been just over a week since we opened our commercial activities at the farm. I tell you, even I could not have imagined how great it is to start generating our own income. It is the Read more…

Last Friday I was on cloud nine.  I had just gone to the bank and withdrew thirty million kwacha ($6,000) to pay for the chickens we were stocking our new poultry house with.  It is Read more…

It was a wild weekend.  On Saturday morning, a taxi arrived with three boys.  They were filthy dirty, stinkin’ drunk and not one of them could have been more than ten years old.  One had Read more…

It has been an exhausting journey but I am finally back at Salvation Home…my home. I traveled with 11 bags of 50 pounds each and seemed to find my guardian angel at every stop. At Read more…