Originally published January 15, 2008
By Sonia Boin
News-Post Staff
They wore worn-out clothes and sat on broken benches in a dilapidated school house, but their faces were washed and their eyes shone with joy.
More than 600 Zambian children orphaned by AIDS waited excitedly for their first-ever Christmas party.
No one was disappointed, according to a report from Adamson Musonda, a Zambian farmer who began taking care of the children seven years ago, when he started Zambia Hope International. The nonprofit organization gives the children education, a local clinic and the lessons they need to combat the spread of AIDS and to have self-sustaining jobs such as farming.
Musonda, who spoke to a number of groups while in Frederick in November, reported on the party in a letter to Thomas Cromwell, a Thurmont businessman who sponsored the party and a feast of goat meat, rice and vegetables -- the menu chosen by the children.
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