Thank you, Sponsors!!

“Thanks for showing me that even on the darkest, rainiest days the sun is still there, just behind the clouds, waiting to shine again.”

Lisa Harlow - Thanks to caring donors, Gift received wonderful and quick hospital services!!  The family is very grateful for this, as they would have not been able to help Gift alone. Gift and his grandmother are now back in Mazabuka.  They will be returning to Lusaka on Thursday to find out the results of the biopsy.  Stay tuned, and thank you so much!!!

Gift Waiting

Here is Gift with his grandmother waiting for the 5 medical consultants to take a look at him.  The doctors are baffled as to what could be causing him to be so ill.  As you can tell by the photo, his grandmother is very worried.  What do you do when you have no diagnosis?  How do you know the way forward- what treatments to take, what changes in diet to make, what if anything you can do to make yourself well?   Please keep Gift in your thoughts and prayers.  We need answers for him and his family, so that they can go back to celebrating life.  It is not too late to help.  If you would like to help toward the costs of the stay and any medical occurrences, simply click on the emergency medical donation link in the upper right hand corner of the blog.  Thank you for all you are doing for this brave young boy of 5 years!

Gift Recovering

As we anxiously await news from all of the testing, here is a picture of Gift recovering in the hospital.  He had an xray, blood work, and a urinalysis, so hopefully we will know more how we can help soon.  I will keep everyone posted.  Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers! 

Playground in Use

Here are some photos of the children playing on the UNICEF donated playground equiptment. 

Greeting Paris

Here are the Tongan ladies greeting their Cyprus visitor in Simwaba. 

Update on Gift's Health

Gift was rushed to Lusaka this morning after a hospital visit in Mazabuka found he was extremely ill.  $350 was raised to cover some of the costs of the transport, medicines, food, and accommodations.  We will soon have an update on his diagnosis and what the total cost will be to make him better.  I am extremely grateful to the donors who provided Gift with his chance to live!  His family would only have been able to keep him comfortable and wait for him to die, since they do not have the funds to get him to Lusaka and treatment.  As you may imagine, Gift's grandmother is in awe of the love that you all have poured out on Gift and his family. 

I will keep you posted as I have more information. The staff of CHZ in Zambia have been going back and forth to get the family settled at the hospital and get the funds logged in.  It has been hectic for them, but it is all for a good cause =) 

Meet Paris from Cyprus! Part 2

The three above look like Hildah and Daniel, but I am not sure who the littlest one is.

Here are more pictures of Paris with the children handing out gifts.  School jerseys are perfect for them right now because it is still very cold outside.  It appears that most of the people are back from vacation now that school starts back on Monday.  What a turn out!