We arrived in Kabwe late Thursday night to stay at HOPE's own Maplehurst Farm. The farm was purchased in 2005 for several purposes. The farm is used primarily as the Zambian base for HOPE and a dairy farm for selling milk. This is different than our other projects, in that it is run by New Zealanders and has a purpose of income-generation for our other Zambian partnerships. Most of our projects are run by indigenous leaders. HOPE has more partnerships in Zambia than any other country, so that is why it made sense to have an income-generation project here.
The second purpose of the the farm is to teach pastors and leaders from around Zambia how to grow food for themselves and their communities. The farm has a large model garden. After the students of gardening go home, they set up a model garden, and then they can show people in the community how to have home gardens in which to grow their own food.
The first two days we visited some of our partners who were attending a conference in Kabwe and listened to a few speakers. My favorite part was to see the African people sing and dance!
I met a very interesting person who is from Hope Baptist in Las Vegas, but is now moving to Zambia. Andy Milligan is with a group called Surgance. He is moving to Africa to start peanut factories which make nutritional supplements for HIV-positive and starving kids. When given ARV medicine in combination with this supplement, many kids have been saved from the brink of death. It is brilliant. Also, his church happens to be one of our main out-of-state supporters for La Mai Coffee!
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