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Our
first child to arrive in Vima Lupwa Home was little
Melody, the inspiration child who started the whole
effort in
Bend
of building a home for orphaned and/or vulnarable
children in Zambia.
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Joseph
was living with two grand- mothers and 12 others in one
room, with no running water and no electricity; blind in
one eye he was teased and abused for his handicap.
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Mwala
is the 14-year-old biological son of
house-parents Violet and Mr. Mwala. He is delighted to
have extended his family with the children now living in
the home.
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Mwape
arrived to Vima Lupwa home
extremely malnourished and
neglected. She
came
to us through the social-welfare office after it was discovered she was being sexually abused by her father.[more...] |
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Shadreck
has now been in the home for two years and just turned
8. He arrived extremely malnourished.
Standing about mid thigh to an average
adult, he looks as though he is only about three.[more...] |
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At
13 years of age,Bupe is our beauty queen. She is constantly
redoing her hair, painting her nails with the pastel paints intended for the art
projects and eating! [more...] |
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13-year-old
Perfious
was living in a shanty with his very ill parents who were
suffering from TB . Due to their
severe illness they were unable to care for him.[more...] |
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Now
10 years old Limbikani was living with his dying mother and five siblings in a one-room
shack.
If lucky, they had one meal a day which extended family members tried to
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Now
at 18, Naluca is the oldest youngster living in the home.
As such, she takes on a parenting role getting up early every morning
before the rest of the family wakes up.[more...] |
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Alick
is the
youngest addition to Vima Lupwa Home: Although
eight years old, due to malnutrition he looks maybe four
years (if possible.
His
yellowed teeth evidencing his past.[more...] |
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10-year-old
Loveness,
whose father suffered from AIDS and died of
tuberculosis, has also just arrived in our home.
Before her father died, he had built a house
where she lived with her parents and a brother.
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Aggie
joined the Vima Lupwa Home just this past summer.
This youngster loves to sing, in fact it is rare
to find her not singing all the time – singing is an
incredible companion for our children and Aggie is a
perfect example of this trend. [more...]
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Muchemwa
came to Luanshya pregnant at 15 years old. She had little baby Ruthie a little
less than a year ago and recently came to live us. [more...] |
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Mwaba only recently started
to
go to school, now eats regular meals and finally lives in a real home.
When
she was an infant, her mother contracted AIDS. [more...] |
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