Desperate Situation & Positive Steps Forward

Dear Grassroots Heroes,


I communicate regularly with Vincent Luwizhi, the GHI missionary doing community development in Grippis Farm. Below are two of his reports from this last week.
Rabbit Income Generation Project
“Today we had Rabbit workshop in Grippis and it was attended by 14 people. the workshop was to teach people how to raise rabbits. We brought in an instructor from the Ministry of Science and Technology from Lusaka who taught. The workshop was well received and we are so excited about this project. Total hours of training is 8.”

The vision of the rabbit project is that 10 families will be given training in raising rabbits at a training center on Heroes Farm. They will get experience for some time in how to construct a rabbit house out of local materials, what to feed the rabbits, what medicines they need, etc. Then, as the rabbits begin to reproduce, the families will give others in the village a breeding pair of bunnies and pass on the training that they received.

Desperate Situation
A young woman in Grippis is in a severe set of circumstances – her roof ( of plastic and grass) was destroyed and she is living with her four little children in a mud hut without shelter above. It is now the autumn season in Zambia, and the temperatures are getting cold. Vincent’s financial request is below. The total cost to buy a roof for this single lady in crises is $250.00. Would you like to help this vulnerable family? If so, please make a one-time donation designated for Leah.

“Leah, the young mother with 2 sets of twins still needs our assistance on replacing the roof sheets. She needs 10 roof sheets and here is the detail budget
10 roof sheets cost Kw 60.000 each
30 long nails cost Kw 2.000 each
Transportation of the roof sheet from the city center cost Kw 90.000
labor cost Kw 200.000
Total is Kw 920.000”

Mission Team Preparing to Help Zambians Improve Sight
On the home front, a mission team from Virginia who is going to Zambia with a team from Pennsylvania to conduct vision screening clinics for Grippis Farm, Mercy Ministries, two villages in Siavonga and Chikkumbuso in the urban slum or Ngombe, held fund raisers this weekend. They and many of their families and friends washed cars and sold hot dogs in the hot sun and raised enough to help the project launch. Thanks to all who helped! They will be leaving the U.S. on August 1 for Zambia.

Rich Blessings,

Tanya Brenneman