We have lots of them and they are adorable. Zambians have a saying that you don't have a family until you have five children. Large families in this society poses obvious problems of providing food and education. In 2006 World Vision found 50% malnutrition rate in Northern Province. They implemented a program through Africare's Rapids program called Positive Deviance/Hearth. Started in 1980 in Haiti, PD Hearth is a community-based behavior change approach to rehabilitating malnourished children in countries with limited resources. The premise is: if some families raise healthy children, we can duplicate their behaviors through educating families of malnourished children. It is like the legend of Stone Soup where the community helps one another.
Children work at a very early age. I caught these imps as they were coming in from gardening.
Here are some very cool cats hanging out on the side of the road.
Here are a group of kids who wanted to learn to bake cakes. They diligently wrote down the recipe for banana bread and then the boys from the hood (back row) showed up to help sample.
Youth Day 2011 in Mpepo Village. Watching big brothers and sisters play sports at school.
These pint-sized girls can already carry 5 gallons containers of water on their heads.
Groups of kids are great spectators. Here they gather on a log to listen to the choir sing by the tuck shops.
We have lots of them and they are adorable. Zambians have a saying that you don't have a family until you have five children. Large families in this society poses obvious problems of providing food and education. In 2006 World Vision found 50% malnutrition rate in Northern Province. They implemented a program through Africare's Rapids program called Positive Deviance/Hearth. Started in 1980 in Haiti, PD Hearth is a community-based behavior change approach to rehabilitating malnourished children in countries with limited resources. The premise is: if some families raise healthy children, we can duplicate their behaviors through educating families of malnourished children. It is like the legend of Stone Soup where the community helps one another. 
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