Thanks to Liz Munday for her update from Malawi, keep up the great work guys.
Achimwene!
Having finished our stay in Chillingani, we have just arrived in
Pensulo. It was very sad to say goodbye to all of the wonderful children
we got on so well with, and the rest of the community, but we have made
great memories. We finished building the foundations and walls of the
new headteacher's office and staffroom after much hard work and lots of
fun and laughter, this was a great achievement. We hope it will be a
huge benefit to the teachers.
We also began to refurbish another of the school buildings so it can
become a library and we donated a few books at the closing ceremony
along with a full netball kit. Alongside the building work and playing
with the children we donated plastic sheeting to an elderly lady to help
waterproof the roof on her 6 foot by 6 foot mud hut "house".
We struck up a great relationship with the children. Whether it was a
game of football dutifully refereed by Alex and Ed or a game of netball
with the girls (with some dubious rules) the children were constantly
laughing and smiling- trying on our sunglasses, carrying our water
bottles and taking countless photos, which we will bore you with soon.
They certainly made our stay fun and incredibly exciting, if not very
tiring; hence the 8.30 bed times!
Now we have just begun our time in Pensulo our joy to be here is as
strong as ever, and we our excited to start our next project,
refurbishing a feeding centre amongst other things. We cannot wait to
begin the new project and the second half of our trip. We are having so
much fun in this amazing country!
Tionana!
Hello from Malawi!!
Almost into our last week of Malawi and we are all still having an
amazing time! We have almost finished refurbishing the feeding centre
and its kitchen and the boys have been keeping up their carpentry skills
with refurbishing the desks for the primary school. The villagers are
extremely friendly and always try their best with speaking English to us
and trying to teach us Chichewa as well. Ida is cooking us some
traditional African dishes such as nsima, veg and kidney beans and even
being treated to mandasi which has been going down a treat.
Last Sunday we climbed Michiru Mountain, so an early start was in
order to climb to the peak before the hot midday sun was out. The climb
was tiring but the view at the top was completely worth it with a
stunning bird's eye view of Blantyre and other villages – we could even
see Chilingani in the distance! This week has mainly consisted of
painting and liming the feeding centre and in our spare time creating
educational posters on important issues such as: HIV/AIDS, health and
hygiene, Malaria and the benefits of staying in school.
The plan for next week is to spend the first few days decorating the
interior of the feeding centre with things such as the alphabet and
numbers and then rounding off the end of the week and our time in Malawi
with a trip to Lake Malawi for a relaxed few days before flying back
home.