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What a wonderful and historic day at Chitambo today, our first ever whole board AGM to be hosted from Chitambo.

Massive thanks to our guests for coming, and to Dr Sydney Chabala, Medical Officer in Charge at Chitambo Hospital, and his dedicated and capable team, for all their hard work in hosting the meeting.

Also huge thanks to our board members, Mr. Levi Chifwaila, Chair of our Zambian board, and Mrs Ida Waddell, who is based at Mwandi Mission Hospital in Western Province. They travelled a long distance on hazardous, rainy season roads to be there. Both are extremely busy people. Levi is Head of the new Nursing Department at the Kwame Nkrumah University in Kabwe, Central Province, and is in the process of launching the first nurse training there. Ida is a very experienced Theatre Nurse and is Mission Partner for the Church of Scotland (CofS), at Mwandi Mission Hospital. She was, formerly, Health Officer for the United Church of Zambia (UCZ), and knows Zambian health issues inside out. She is now on the board of the prestigious Churches Health Association of Zambia (CHAZ). Ida has only just returned from CofS furlough in Scotland, but made the huge effort to travel, physically, to Chitambo to help facilitate our AGM and bond our already very close team even further. Thank you everyone. You are the glue that makes the difference.

After a PowerPoint presentation, and formal AGM business, we were taken on a live stream tour of our projects, including the Mothers Waiting Shelter, Maternity Unit, Oxygen Generator, Centenary Ambulance, and Nurse Training School.

It was amazing to be at Chitambo for the morning and see how all these developments are coming together, and what else is needed.

Thanks to all our friends and supporters for making our activities possible.