I am not a big watcher of television but if I do sit and relax, which I am told to do more of, I watch the documentary channel, TVO, educational or travel shows. I saw a talk by Hans Rosling https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling who is a statistician who has been studying poverty

This little boy, who is now 3 years old, soon to be 4, is no longer afraid of me. The first year I met him, 2014,  he would not come near me. I think he had never seen a person with blond hair and silver highlights. LOL. His name is Mulyokela but they call him Hickson and he is the cu

I am fortunate to know many amazing Fathers, but of course mine takes the cake! Love you Dad! Happy Fathers Day to all the Amazing Fathers in the world. You do the best you can and that’s all you can do! A survey recently taken here in Canada said that what most fathers wanted f

If any one would like any of the recipes below just send me a quick comment with your email address and I would be happy to send them to you. We have many other recipes which will be posted soon! Likewise if you have any canning recipes you would like to share, please send them to joa

  The University of Toronto has a wonderful program where people can submit problems they would like solved by the first year engineering students in the school. SEEDS has submitted projects both in 2015 and 2016 and we are so pleased with the results. This year we asked the team

Please help Socio-Economic And Environmental Development Solutions(SEEDS) win $10,000.00 to purchase a vehicle, build a solar grey water system, solar bore hole pump and a solar cold cellar so we can provide more rural villagers with life saving non GMO vegetable seeds to feed their m

Even though there has been a drought in many countries of Africa, including Zambia we are still growing! Near Kalabo, Mwualuka has planted 3257 tomatoe plants in his village of Luoke West. 2000 of those plants are ready now and the rest will be ready in June. Mwualuka will sell the to

Due to the predicted nice weather we will be having an All WEEKEND YARD SALE Saturday April 16th from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and Sunday from 10a.m.-1p.m. Come on out and support Socio-Economic And Environmental Development Solutions (SEEDS), an organization created to help people, elephants,

I have been thinking about Max a lot in the last few weeks. Max was the driver who worked for World Vision and drove me 700 km. to meet, for the first time,  my sponsored child Njamba in 2011. Max was kind, funny, a father to five and loving husband to his wife Fair who is a nurse at