The students at Chalubemba Primary School were dancing along to the lyrics of a song: “the love of Jesus higher than the mountains…”
他們用動作唱出主耶稣的愛比天更高
Ndola, Zambia. June 13, 2017
Photo: Violin Chan
The women in rural Zambia spend several hours each day threshing soybeans by beating them with heavy bamboo rods.
Photo 37: Threshing in Zambia
During the harvest of soybeans, the women in Zambia are very busy. After the chores in the morning, they go to the school’s open field to thresh. One strike after another, they beat on the crop with heavy bamboo rods. They neglect the blazing sun and continue to work till they are sweating all over. When the sun is setting, they go home together as a group because it is hard to find one’s way after it gets dark.
在收割黃豆的季節，婦女們十分忙碌，早上料理了家務，便到學校空地打穀，把黃豆脫粒，他們是真正的「打」穀，用長棍，一下一下打在莊稼上；不理日頭當空，包上頭巾，繼續工作；太陽快下山，便聯群結隊回家，因為天黑路難走。
- Violin (photographs taken in Ndola, Zambia, 2012)
While most of the world have adopted the usage of modern threshing machines, the Zambian women can only afford to use their hands and the most basic tools even to this day.
Small fragments of soybeans fill the air at the threshing field.
The small children are left by the shade while the women work under the beating sun.
After hours of toilsome work, the women journeys home where more chores await them in the evening.
Photo by Violin Chan. Ndola, Zambia, 2011
Photo-A-Week #14: Soccer Dreams
Children love to play regardless of where they are. This time when we visited Zambia, we stayed in a rural area surrounded by pig shelters, farms, and woodlands. Despite the uneven terrain, the lack of proper equipment and sportswear, and a very worn and under-inflated soccer ball, the children still played with all their hearts and might. Their level of joy and enthusiasm were not affected by such poor circumstances in any way.
I finally found an opportunity to take a closer picture of them together when they finished playing after sunset. From the photo, can you see the soccer dreams in their eyes?
小孩子愛玩。有好的設施，玩得安全又開心；沒有好的環境、 原來也不減樂趣。 今次贊比亞之行我們住在鄉村, 隔鄰就是豬屋, 門前就是禾田，屋後就是叢林，好像沒有活動的地方，然而村中孩子們就在阡陌小路間和屋前小空地追逐, 踢球。
泥地高低不好跑，沒有龍門、 沒有球衣、 沒有運動鞋、 沒有教練、 就連足球也沒有彈力，只是看起來像足球，（因為我也有試踢一下)， 但他們玩得開心，認真， 盡力顯身手， 直玩到日落才停下來，讓我有機會為他們照相。 從他們的眼神，你可看到他們的足球夢？
- Violin