We praise the Lord for the reopening of our male medical ward. It has been closed for the last 9 months for renovations. Thanks to our partners both in the Netherlands (Eye for Zambia and Wilde Ganzen) and the US (BICWM) for the generous donations which made this possible. This completes phase one of a … Continue reading Projects Update
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I have said these words so many times in my life but the time that is most etched in my memory is when I was looking out the back window of our VW van on the road leaving Safi, Morocco. I was 7 years old and my mom had just picked me up from school … Continue reading “This is the last time….”
Lilac Breasted Roller An unexpected hobby that Mark and I have developed over the past two years here in Zambia has been bird watching. Yup! You read that correctly We have apparently joined the club with no warning. It just kind of happened. White-browed Scrub Robin or Brown-crowned Tchagra (I’ll take votes on this one) … Continue reading We’ve become bird watchers!
While so many things happened in 2020 and 2021, at Macha Mission Hospital construction was a constant. At the start of twenty-twenty we were operating in the same operating room, with the same cracks in the wall, as when I first visited in 2009. The big hole in the roof in the hall was new … Continue reading 2021 From the Ground up
I am so excited that I must share! As you know I am a speech therapist by trade and over the past year and a half here in Macha, Zambia I have been trying to “start” to provide speech therapy to children. As part of that endeavor I have dealt with several children with hearing … Continue reading Hearing Comes to Macha
These past two weeks have felt like we have just moved to Africa. Part of being settle in a new place is just getting used to the way things are. So, after being here in Zambia for 8 months, it was time for us to move from our comfortable 1 bedroom flat to the “Big … Continue reading Showers of Blessings
Two Mondays ago I had the opportunity to experience my first ever Zambian “kitchen party”. What’s a “kitchen party” you ask? It’s a bridal shower! I had heard about these events and I had received the invitation a long time ago so I was curiously anticipating the event. The party was to start … Continue reading Kitchen party (Zambian culture)
Six months! Six months is when you’re supposed to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. We don’t have any of those. Six months is when you’re supposed to flip your mattress around so that it doesn’t sag. We do have one of those thankfully. Six months is when you look back over the time … Continue reading 6 Months In Zambia!
After reading our blogs, you might be asking yourself, didn’t you go to Zambia to do surgery? The answer is definitely “Yes!” Much of my day is filled with surgery or taking care of those with surgical and medical issues. So, I guess, it is time that I share with you some interesting cases. The … Continue reading Lessons in Surgery
People often ask me, Maggie, what life is like in Zambia. Of course it’s difficult to give a true picture seeing as so much of life involves sounds, smells, tastes, feelings, sights and, of course, what we experience every day. I think that moving to and living in Zambia is a lot like rafting down … Continue reading Rafting the Zambezi
Mark and Maggie BICWM 