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Two of my favorite kids at the Tree of Life, Agness and Baby Joe.  I met Agness at Camp LIFE 2009 and was drawn to her smile and joy.  Although she is 9, she is about the size of a 6 year old due to malnutrition.  Joe and I became best friends the first day he moved into the Tree of Life.  He has HIV, but gets regular ARVs now that he lives at the Tree of Life.

Here is one of my favorite pictures from around Lusaka.  Most of the houses in the compounds of Lusaka are one-room, cinder block houses with these curtains for doors.

We opened Community Resource Centers in 2008 all around Lusaka to give us a permanent presence in the community.  Our staff lives and works out of there CRCs and kids are free to come by anytime especially if they are in trouble.

Here is my group of guys from Kabanana at Camp LIFE 2008.  They each got new shirts and a bandana to wear on Friday.  Little did they know they would be getting a new fleece jacket in just a few hours.

Each kids who comes to Camp LIFE gets a brand new pair of shoes.  That’s over 15,000 pair we give out each year.  Here are Mindy’s girls with their new kicks.

Our Community Resource Centers become an emergency home for many kids.  Here are a few kids who lived at the Matero CRC.

This is one of my favorite pictures from Camp LIFE 2009.  This kid looks like Michael Jackson walking down the street in one of his videos.

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Aggie is the girl Mindy and I sponsor at the Tree of Life Children’s Village.  She lived in a one room house with 10 other people before and was very malnourished.

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