I am staying with Patrick, his wife Tessie and their gorgeous 4 month baby.
Tessie has already booked me in for a cookery lesson with her - although the 'hard porridge' has hopefully got lost in translation!
Not a typical day in the office for me. Have spent the day with Grace who is 24, very sweet and works on the accounts for COYIDA. I have been helping her put basic accounting practices in place whilst learning a bit more about Malawi and the NGO COYIDA.
COYIDA stands for Community Youth in Development Activities. The registered as an NGO in 2005. Here are some of the key contributions: Water Sanitation, HIV, Nutrition, childrens rights and sexual protection.
Water Sanitation: To build a shallow well costs £200 and this will sevice 250 households.
HIV: Support groups linked to health care and educating people to eat the right foods.
Children's rights: Funding protection workers who promote children's corners to get children to talk to each other and sort out their problems - giving them a voice.
The Malawi population is 721,000 17% of which is under 5 years of age.
Another interesting chat with Grace was about Netball - Malawi ranks 5th in the world at Netball and will be at the Olympics...
Making lots of friends here and have been invited to Grace's house for lunch which I am really looking forward to.
71% under five?!!! That's an incredible statistic. Just £200 to provide water for so many people - maybe a netball inspired evening when you are back to raise some funds? Take care - 47 degrees is tough to cope with - drink lots of water! Hils x
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