Wed 24th July
Today I was mostly in the office getting to grips with the finances, which makes for a dull blog post. Yesterday however I joined the outreach workers and we bumped into 3 people who had been helped by Friends of the Street Children.
Shoes
One guy called out to us from behind a rug on the street bearing a load of shoes and came over with a cheery greeting. He had been a kid living on the street but Friends of the Street Children helped him, and he got an education and now buys shoes cheaply in Lusaka and sells them from the side of the street in Kitwe.
Perhaps he could help the priest from this cartoon?
Television
With modest and polite friendliness, one guy said hello to us as we crossed the road. He now works for ZNBC, the major radio and television broadcasting company in Zambia, where he does camera work and scriptwriting. It sounded pretty impressive to me, but the guy seemed to have quite a modest demeanour.
Plumber
Another cheery greeting came from a guy who spotted us as we walked down the street. After he was gone, the outreach worker told me that when this guy was in the Friends of the Street Children rehabilitation centre, he was always keen to get stuck in whenever there was an issue with the plumbing.
Since he now has a successful business as a plumber, I'm sure he was better than the guy in this cartoon!
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