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Bushes hard at work in Kawbe, Zambia yesterday, Monday, July 2nd.

During a tour of the Teacher Training Institution of the Nkrumah College of Education, Mrs. Laura Bush participates in a round table discussion with students and faculty members on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. Nkrumah trains Junior Secondary School Teachers and is currently undergoing a transformation into a full-fledged university. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

A student attending the Teacher Training Institution of Nkrumah College of Education listens to Mrs. Laura Bush during a round table discussion with students and faculty members on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. Nkrumah trains Junior Secondary School Teachers and is currently undergoing a transformation into a full-fledged university. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Prior to a campus tour, Mrs. Laura Bush smiles at a student during a round table discussion with students and faculty members of the Teacher Training Institution of Nkrumah College of Education on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. Nkrumah trains Junior Secondary School Teachers and is currently undergoing a transformation into a full-fledged university. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Flanked by students attending the Lufutuko Community School, Mrs. Laura Bush and Mutinta Mwananyanda (left), Founder, Lufutuko Community School, wave to the camera during a group photo on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. The word Lufutuko means "the children have been saved". The school offers education to approximately 270 students, ranging from 1st to 7th grade. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Students in a 7th grade reading class at the Lufutuko Community School in Kabwe, Zambia, listen as Mrs. Bush reads the book that she and Mrs. Jenna Bush-Hagar authored titled, Read All About It, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Mutinta Mwananyanda (center), Founder, Lufutuko Community School, and a teacher, look on. The teacher is one of four teachers, including a supervisor, who share the duties of the 2 class sessions. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

As the students receive their bi-annual de-worming pills at Lufutuko Community School in Kabwe, Zambia, Mutinta Mwananyanda (left center), Founder, Lufutuko Community School, discuss with Mrs. Laura Bush the effective treatment program on Monday, July 2, 2012. The school’s infection test scores have improved due to the children’s access to medicine provided by donations from the pharmaceutical producers of the compound. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

After receiving a tour, Mrs. Laura Bush stops into the dining hall to visit with children of the Lufutuko Community School in Kabwe, Zambia, on Monday, July 2, 2012. There are approximately 270 students in the school ranging from 1st to 7th grade. With a 100% pass rate on the 7th grade exam, the school has four classrooms, and takes place in two sessions a day. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

President George W. Bush uses a roller to paint a door that will be fitted into the Ngungu Health Center on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Hard at work, President George W. Bush paints the doors that will be fitted into the Ngungu Health Center on Monday, July 2, 2012, in Kabwe, Zambia. Joined by Mrs. Laura Bush and Mrs. Doyin Oluwole, Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative, and local community members, President Bush is assisting in renovations of the clinic to promote awareness of cervical cancer and to provide health care to women. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

President George W. Bush and Timothy Keller, an American Missionary working in Zambia, take a moment during renovations of the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, to discuss and draw out a strategy on Monday, July 2, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Taking a break from painting, President George W. Bush shares a laugh with the medical staff that will be working in the newly renovated Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Monday, July 2, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

After an afternoon of painting at Ngungu Health Center, in Kabwe, Zambia, Mrs. Laura Bush poses for a photograph with students of the local community who attend the Julie Anne’s Children’s Home at the Robert Shitima School who volunteered to help with renovations on Monday, July 2, 2012. The day before, on Sunday, July 1st, Mrs. Bush had visited the School, which is an orphanage and school for street children and other disadvantaged youth. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

In preparation for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Monday, July 2, 2012, team members from The George W. Bush Presidential Center prepare a banner that will be displayed. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Together with a team member of The Bush Center, Mrs. Laura Bush and President George W. Bush paint the finishing touches on the inside of the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, wrapping up a day of renovations on Monday, July 2, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

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Here’s another video of President Bush speaking to members of the Zambian media yesterday:

President George W. Bush in Kabwe, Zambia

President and Laura Bush on hand for the ribbon cutting ceremony for the re-opening of the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia today.

President George W. Bush works with staff of the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012, to organize and set up the newly renovated examination room to prepare the space to provide cervical cancer screenings. The screenings will begin later the same day after an informal ribbon cutting ceremony. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Flanked by team members of The Bush Center, President George W. Bush helps to assemble the examination table that will be set up in the newly renovated room to provide cervical cancer screenings at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The examination table is a donation by The Bush Center staff in honor of President Bush for his July 2012 birthday. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

President George W. Bush Mrs. Doyin Oluwole (center), Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative, and a member of the medical staff at the Ngungu Health Center pose for a photograph in the newly renovated examination room in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. The Bush Center is expanding the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative partnership to promote awareness of cervical cancer and to provide health care to women. The examination table is a donation by The Bush Center staff in honor of President Bush for his July 2012 birthday. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Prior to an informal ribbon cutting ceremony, President George W. Bush offers a smile and assistance to the second woman who completed the cervical cancer screening at the newly renovated Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Prior to an informal ribbon cutting ceremony, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush greet some of the women who are waiting at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, to receive a screening for cervical cancer on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Former U.S president George W. Bush holds eight-month-old baby Thelma Mulenga as his wife Laura looks on at Ngungu Cancer Clinic in Zambia's Central Province town of Kabwe, July 3 2012. Bush, who is in Zambia to support the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Cervical cancer awareness initiative, spent four days helping refurbish sections of the clinic

After four days of renovations, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush participate in an informal ribbon cutting ceremony at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, to celebrate the opening of the Ngungu Health Center’s cervical cancer screening center on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

President George W. Bush, Mrs. Laura Bush, Ambassador Storella (right center), U.S. Ambassador to Zambia, and guests of the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, share a moment of laughter during an informal ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. President and Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Doyin Oluwole, Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative, members of The Bush Center staff, and local community volunteers renovated the Ngungu Health Center over four days, to provide a space for cervical cancer screenings. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Joined by a recently screened patient and her daughter, President George W. Bush and Mrs. Laura Bush receive countdown help from a member of the medical staff during an informal ribbon cutting ceremony at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. President and Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Doyin Oluwole, Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative, members of The Bush Center staff, and local community volunteers renovated the Ngungu Health Center over four days, to provide a space for cervical cancer screenings. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

President George W. Bush and Laura Bush cut the ribbon at a ceremony opening the Ngungu Health Clinic in Kabwe, Zambia.

President George W. Bush is flanked by nursing staff at the outpatient department of the the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, Zambia, on Tuesday, July 3, 2012. President and Mrs. Bush, Mrs. Doyin Oluwole, Executive Director, Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Initiative, members of The Bush Center staff, and local community volunteers renovated the Ngungu Health Center over four days, to provide a space for cervical cancer screenings. Photo by Shealah Craighead/The Bush Center

Former U.S president George W. Bush holds a baby named after him at Ngungu Cancer Clinic in Zambia's Central Province town of Kabwe July 3, 2012. Bush, who is in Zambia to support the Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon Cervical cancer awareness initiative, spent four days helping refurbish sections of the clinic.