By Jennifer Cho Salaff
Our team began the day with a visit to Jorazu Christian School in the Kanyama province of Lusaka. Kanyama is a shantytown-- hundreds of homes made from concrete slabs with aluminum siding for roofs and dirt floors. The striking thing—besides the obvious poverty—is the number of children you see living in these communities. I saw toddlers with bare bottoms and only a shirt on their backs running around the alleyways, often by themselves. Women were washing laundry in plastic buckets. Men, most of whom are unemployed (Zambia struggles with an 80 percent unemployment rate) sat on steps to the front of their shacks; some smoking, some engaging in conversation with one another, many just watching life pass them by.