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God Bless our manager Fredrick in Mongu. Fredrick speaks 4 languages and understands 5 so I am sure it is hard to keep them all straight when writing. I received some pictures of the 10 new banana trees he planted  and as our only way, yet again- as the Internet is so slow it is painf

In my last post, Kuomboka In A Canoe,  I mentioned washing our legs and here is what happened! We finally started paddling through the tall grasses to our first stop which was the village that our manager Fredrick was born in 61 years ago in the middle of the Barotse Flood Plain. As t

I was finally able to witness the Kuomboka Ceremony in Mongu, Barotseland and had the pleasure of sharing the experience with my friends from Australia, Chloe & Luke and our SEEDS manager Fredrick.I have been to Zambia 5 times now and this is the first time I was there when on Apr

As I always say, this charity is taking me for a ride. It has a life of it’s own. I am just the facilitator of all the good that comes to us. When doing a Seedy Saturday in Parkdale, a woman named Stephanie saw our Silozi Seed Bank sign. She asked” Is that the language Sil

There were so many great things that happened on this, my fifth trip to Zambia in Mar/Apr.2017. As always, seeing this young man, is a joy and highlight of my trips, but this was a very special visit. For those of you ( like you Debs), who have read all of my medwoman.wordpress.com bl

Welcome to SEEDS B&B, Mongu- Mulopo Flats! Barotseland, Western Province, Zambia. We have just opened on Limulunga Rd. a five minute walk north of Liseli Lodge.  The Limulunga Palace is approximately 10km north of us. There are two quiet, clean, comfortable two bedroom flats with

I am so excited to be going to Zambia again from March 28th-April 19th, 2017! Each time I go, I have a mission. This time is to renovate some Flats and open SEEDS B&B Mongu. I was fortunate to have had Shaun Clever take a suitcase with 50lbs of things I will need to open this bed

I keep saying that SEEDS is taking me a long for the ride. All I have to do is think it and it comes! I was so surprized last week when our manager Fredrick sent me some pictures of our new gate. He is fortunate enough to have been given land from the Barotseland King many years ago a

  Merry Christmas from Canada & Zambia! Help us www.sendseedstoafrica.org so they may continue to sing! Donate before December 31st, 2016 to receive your charitable tax receipt from SEEDS in January 2017. Click to watch the video!      

  In April 2014 our Manager Fredrick, Assistant Manager Matindo and I went looking in the outskirts of Mungu for poles to build our Tree Nursery beside our Resource Garden. We stopped at this village where people cut down trees and hide them in the bush until they get a prospecti