http://africa.connorboyack.com Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:17:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This saturday at the MWB Boutique (where they raised $36,000!), I purchased a DVD copy of a documentary filmed by a couple team members two years ago. It is titled "Mwana Wako Ni Mwana Wanga", which means "Your Child is My Child". The documentary (50 min. in length) ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/mwana-wako-ni-mwana-wanga/ What would it be like to have never seen yourself? How would life be different without a reflection? Would we see ourselves differently? How would we dress? Would we spend our time and money on cosmetics and such superficiality? It's stunning to realize that some people have ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/a-mirror/ AIDS is tearing apart families in sub-Saharan Africa. As AVERT reports: An estimated 24.5 million adults and children were living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa at the end of 2005. During that year, an estimated 2 million people died from AIDS. The epidemic has left behind some 12 million orphaned African ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/child-headed-households/ As many of you know, I have now returned from my three week trip to Zambia, Africa. Most of the questions I get from friends and acquaintances are something along the lines of "how was it?". What do I even say to that? I usually respond with a simple "great!", allowing ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/where-to-start/ Tomorrow we leave for the USA. The trip has been amazing, and I hope to write some detailed stories and share some photos when I am home and have the time. The past few days have been bittersweet, as we've been enjoying our time here but dreading the day when ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/leaving-on-a-jet-plane-again/ Yesterday and today were our "vacation" days of the trip. Yesterday we went on a game drive here in southern Zambia and saw a bunch of animals, including the only white rhino in all of Zambia. In the afternoon we went to Victoria Falls, one of the seven ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/world-wonder/ The other day was a favorite of mine for the trip. Last fall I organized a service project in my ward to raise money for and put together hygiene kits to be sent to Zambia through Mothers Without Borders (the organization I'm over here with). We raised over $3,000, and ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/full-circle/ Wow, absolutely no time to write, but I'll post a quick update. Yesterday we went to Bwafwano, a community center in the Chazanga area. We headed out into the village with some social workers and were able to visit people that were sick and dying. It was ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/workin-hard/ Yesterday we headeda out to a remote village for our first Super Kids Camp. We rounded up 186 kids from the village for the day's activities. We were greeted with some songs and dancing, and we joined in the fun. We split up the kids between a craft and some ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/a-plethora-of-kids/ Great.. so I typed up a long blog post (apparently this version of Wordpress doesn't have autosave), and then the power went out. Three seconds later, two guys show up outside the window, about two feet away, and begin to weld. Right next to us. So I ... http://africa.connorboyack.com/a-long-few-days/