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
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
What a lovely surprise it was to receive these pictures from Matindo & Njamba just before Valentines Day. These two bright, ambitious young men have completed Grade 12 and are now, with help from SEEDS, obtaining more specialized training in Agriculture, Carpentry, Masonry and Lif
For those of you who don’t know of Njamba, he is the young man that Joanne sponsored for six years through World Vision and the reason SEEDS was born. I met him when he was 16 years old in 2011 and have visited him 4 times since then. He has graduated from grade 12 and grown int
Thank you to all who helped make the video and posed for all of the pictures! You are great! We recorded this in August 2015 to be ready for Christmas. I hope you like it! These are the children of the village where SEEDS is located in Mongu, Barotseland. They are eating
Hey Everyone! We just created a crowdfunding campaign for GivingTuesday called “The Silozi Seed Bank” and I think you’d be interested in checking it out. GivingTuesday is a national day of giving that takes place each year after Cyber Monday. Thi
Even in North America there are many people who have not heard of “Adopt A Road” but we are going to start the program in Barotseland Africa. In August 2015 Socio-Economic And Environmental Development Solutions (SEEDS) authorized staff to organize and implement an
When traveling to a new country, even if their official language is your own mother tongue, it is still a blessing to have an interpreter in a country where there are 10 indigenous languages (or language groups) spoken as a mother tongue by more than 1% of the population, four
Connor and Abigail , You did it! Thanks to you and your school project “Alleviating Hunger in Zambia”, having a “Boot Sale”, running a “Go Fund Me ” Campaign and all of your research we can now email between SEEDS in Mongu, Zambia and SEEDS in Toro
I am writing this at 4:42am on the fourth day of my return from my fourth trip to Zambia and I am feeling the jet lag more than any other trip. Zambia is six hours ahead of us here in Toronto so my body thinks we are still there and it is 10:42am. I woke up this morning, oddly,