I have been working on a vitamin project for quite a few months and finally they have arrived! I had the pleasure of escorting the 4 containers to the base, while driving by the village it was interesting to see the expressions on the faces of the children. Some screamed and ran closer to their huts while others ran excitedly towards the trucks. It is very unusual for 4 huge semi trucks to be driving through a village!
Overland Missions acquired 100 tons of vitamins/supplements to be distributed in the rural areas. After many months of pharmaceutical clearances, meetings and inspections with health officials, we are now able to distribute them. We did our first distribution in Nsongwe Village which is closest to the base with 294 huts; almost 2 tons of vitamins were distributed. About 300 adults showed up at first and when asked what a vitamin was nobody knew. So we started by teaching what vitamins were and why they were important for our bodies. 
Just this past weekend 13 Overland Staff members and 8 volunteers traveled to the village of Chunga, Siamasimbi and Ndele where the surrounding villages came together. In the day we distributed vitamins and mingled with the children and at night a ministry team was able to share the love of Jesus with the people after they got to view either the Jesus Film in their mother tongue or the Book of John.
There were many salvations and healings, praise God!
It was an honor for the Overland team to spend the quality time with each other on expedition, encourage one another in our faith and to have fun bonding as a team!
One of the vitamins we have is an anti-oxidant with Selenium, this is a mineral in your body that gets depleted when you have HIV/Aids, we have educated the people on this and we are hoping that villagers will be diligent in taking these vitamins.
The life expectancy in Zambia is 38 years of age, if we can teach them to be healthy and build their immune systems many people would be able to live longer and there will be less orphans in Zambia!
In the month of August we have reached approximately 2400 people that came from 36 different villages in the Mukuni Chiefdom. We will also distribute them to all orphanages, clinics and hospitals in the 4 chiefdom's we work in. 
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