Staff and Volunteers

01 Oct

Posted at 09:53h in Staff and Volunteers

Hello, my name is Martha Fuechsel and I joined the Special Hope Network team a year ago. Coming in, I was not sure what to expect. We all create a picture from what we hear in the news, learn in school, and from the pictures we see of what a country in Africa could look like, and what a program for kids with disabilities in a developing country would be like. On my first day, I walked into our Community Care...

11 Nov

Posted at 09:37h in Staff and Volunteers

Hey there, and welcome to my post on the Special Hope blog.  I am a speech pathologist in my clinical fellowship year - a year of supervised practicing required after earning your master's degree in speech pathology before you can become certified to practice on your own.  I have been in Zambia since August this year, and what a feat it is to put that experience thus far into a single blog post. But I’m going to try my best....

25 Aug

Posted at 07:32h in Staff and Volunteers

My time with Special Hope not only gave me a chance to work with children who have disabilities across the world, but showed me how disability is no different across the world or in a different culture; God created, loves, and works through every child and adult no matter how they were made and Special Hope is presenting that idea to Lusaka, one child at a time....