Street Parade
Every so often as you’re driving down one of the main streets in Lusaka traffic slows and as you’re looking for the reason, you see people marching down the middle of the road with a banner out front announcing what it is they’re raising money for. The idea is that you slow down and throw some money into their buckets…a little like firemen do in the States, except their in the middle of the road.
Today as we were headed into town for an inter-church social, we came upon one of these parades. The cause – raising money for a pre-school. To our shock, the people walking down the middle of Independence Ave were the pre-schoolers!! Ireen, my daugher, is 5 – the same age as many of the children walking in between the lanes of traffic. It horrified me to think of her risking her life in traffic to raise money for her education.
