NGO & Charities

Seeds of Hope Administrator Christi Williams carries a box of goods donated by local Rotary clubs for use by a village school in Africa. The cargo container was loaded onto a truck in Nipomo on Monday to travel to a freighter in Los Angeles Harbor. Dan Balfe, of the Cambria Rotary, helps. //Frank Cowan/Contributor

Nipomo Rotary delivering clean water, jobs to Zambia

31/01/2014

A steel cargo container left Nipomo this week to start a three-month journey to a village in one of the poorest areas of Zambia,...

Rangers reliever Shawn Tolleson called his time in Zambia a life-changing experience

Zambia relief mission gave Shawn Tolleson perspective

30/01/2014

Rangers pitcher Shawn Tolleson has been on relief missions before, through his school and church, but none were like his nine-day visit to the southern African...

Murder mystery evening at Pershore High School

25/01/2014

AN evening to die for is set to take place at Pershore High School this month. The murder mystery evening is being held at the...

Retired teachers Corina and Peter Bolo spoke with Alberton Elementary School students last year about their Habitat for Humanity work in Zambia and their mission to help raise funds to build two classrooms in an impoverished village there

Peter and Corina Bolo on mission to build classrooms in Zambia

22/01/2014

Peter and Corina Bolo were struck by the sheer poverty they witnessed while in Kamanga, Zambia for a Habitat for Humanity build a year...

Fidesco Volunteers – Two Girls On Chilubi Island / Lake Bangweulu, Zambia

21/01/2014

http://vimeo.com/50283579 Chilubi Island is a beautiful place... Lost on the Bangweulu lake (which means Dragon in Chibemba), in the North-East of Zambia, you can reach...

Alexander, 6, and Gabriella, 5, become African animals for the evening at Voluntown Elementary School's Chikambuso Night. Photos by Janice Steinhagen.

Voluntown helps Zambian widows, orphans at Chikumbuso Night

21/01/2014

The sights and sounds of Africa enlivened a drab January evening at Voluntown Elementary School Jan. 15, as the school hosted Chikumbuso Night. Part...

A coffin is lowered into the grave during a funeral in a Zambian village. At the end of the ceremony, the family members shovel soil back on top

Zambian funerals have familiar look

20/01/2014

I’ve attended more funerals in my Peace Corps service than I did in the entire time I lived in the United States. In fact, in...

Charlotte pledges ministers’ wives support to Chipata SOS village

18/01/2014

Wife of Vice President, Charlotte Scott, says the Ministers’ Spouses Club will do everything possible to support the SOS Children’s village in Chipata, Eastern...