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Dear Friends,

Your great support helped us one more time to realize lots of projects in 2007!
Thanks A Lot ! 

This year, our cooperation passed from 14 to 15 villages and several villages are still waiting to join us.

Main  projects in 2007 

- shipping of a container of medical material in collaboration of ‘Hôpitaux Sans Frontières’
- installation of power supply and solar panels at the Muntemba Hospital
- construction guest house for volunteers
- construction of 2 village pharmacies
- construction of one villages shop
- purchase of 4 trucks
- construction grain storehouse at Takusumbwa
- construction of a health post at Munyeu
- purchase of 3 grinding mills

- plantation of 30ha of Jatropha (bio-diesel)
- drilling of 3 wells
- 35 children sponsorsed
- construction of 2 teachers houses
- help in agriculture projects
- construction of a doctors house at the Twalumba Hospital

In 2007, we have also hired Valérie Du Bois to help us with project management and coordination in Zambia as fund sourcing and administrative tasks in Belgium.  Her enthusiasm and dynamism are most welcome!

During the month of November, Hellen Makwangula and Lenny Chulo (head coordinators) passed three weeks in Belgium. This trip made it possible to strengthen projects and was the occasion to create new meetings and friendships.

This year we had once more a fantastic experience during the holiday with young European volunteers in Muntemba village.

- Aline, Louise, Macha and Savina taught languages classes, animated the children and undertook various projects within the orphanage.
- Quentin continued his plantations and forestry protection and was joined by Amaury for the construction of the guest house and chicken yard. 
- Guillaume, Priya, Neeti and Archana launched a pilot project to collect used batteries as part of their MBA program at Wharton (UPenn, USA).

Besides the obvious material help, this enable the habitants of Chibombo to realize that beyond their poverty, a true cooperation exists and that the progress and the will to improve their quality of life is a common objective shared by them and us.

All kind of support that you’re bringing us helps us to build a better future. We thank you for your support and help in building a better futur.

We also thank Thierry van Zeebroeck for his support, Gauthier Van den Berghe for the web site and folders as well as Jonathan de Sauvage and Matthieu Speeckaert for organizing the go-kart activity.

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