Izabela Wasiela spent two weeks in Zambia volunteering with the Happy Africa Foundation

A recent trip to Africa was an eye-opening, rewarding experience for Izabela Wasiela, a sales rep with Sutton Group – Seafair Realty in Richmond, B.C. She spent two weeks in Livingstone, Zambia volunteering with the Happy Africa Foundation. She taught special needs children in the mornings and in the evenings visited a seniors’ care facility, gardened and cared for young children in an afterschool program.  She also provided medical guidance including HIV education – something of lifesaving importance in a community where it is estimated that one in three people have contracted the disease. 

 “There were more highlights to this trip than I could count,” says Wasiela.  “There was one special needs boy with microcephaly in my classroom who hadn’t spoken in 10 years and when I pushed him on the swing in the playground he counted to 10 for me and brought me and the teacher to tears.”