Behind the exteriors of the world’s trees there beats the heart of a superhero. Among the largest and oldest living organisms on the planet, trees are able to warn one another of approaching danger and mount a defence. In certain cases, they are able to send their armies to fight…
Lesson 6 in the Royal Chundu Homeschool Sometimes we need to be gently nudged or outright pushed into taking time to be still and to focus on the simple joys. We’ve being paying these little quiet pleasures so much quality time in the last few weeks and learning new tricks…
Lesson One! Learning a new language takes time, dedication, curiosity. Some dialects are particularly harder than others – sometimes our tongues just won’t do what we tell them to do, our mouths just cannot figure out how to roll that “r”, how to create the correct click or intonation, or…
Let’s go back in time for a moment… 50 years ago, we ventured to the moon for the very first time and Martin Luther King Jr. shared his great dream. 40 years ago, Grease was the word and CNN was born. 30 years ago, Nelson Mandela was released after 27…
There’s something about the touch of a child’s hand in your hand. The gentle embrace of a life so new and fragile. We arrived on the riverbank of the Malombo village by boat and the faces of the children and grandchildren of the families in the village were the first…
Our home on the Zambezi is built on the spirit of the extended family. It is strengthened by the bond of community. In the villages alongside us, and all over Zambia, this spirit often sees grandmothers or siblings taking on roles as mothers to young ones, helping where needed, where…
