The Dalitso Project
May 2017
5/31/2017
Hi all. At Thyolo and Kambilonjo, the centres are continuing to do well with the Kambilonjo crops now ready for harvesting. The centre at Thyolo have grown a few fields of crops in Kambilonjo this year as the rains tend to be better and more reliable there. The Thyolo gardeners have therefore spent the last two weeks in Kambilonjo, harvesting their fields and are now back in Thyolo ready to begin the Thyolo harvest in a few weeks. It should be noted on a very sad note that Wiseman Nota, one of the gardeners based at Thyolo, sadly lost his daughter this month. The young girl took ill very suddenly and was admitted to Thyolo district hospital with an unknown illness and unfortunately was unable to pull through. We offer our deepest condolences to the Nota family at this time. On a brighter note, both centres received material for school uniforms in the container and their hardworking tailors got straight onto the huge job of making uniforms for the 300+ children. These are some of the classes at Thyolo (first two pictures attached here) and Kambilonjo (second two) pictures attached here) and their swanky new uniforms! We hope that this material which was sourced from Texcraft fabrics in Glasgow at a discounted price, will be far superior to the cheap and thin material available in Malawi, which tends to break very quickly. Many of you will have seen the beautiful health clinic that we now have in Malawi. The land for this clinic was donated by an ‘old widow’- how disappointed my Mum was when she realised that the ‘old widow’ was much younger than my Mum! This lady kindly gave up her land, her source of income and her mud thatched home because she believed in the project. We decided that although we were paying her for her land, we wanted to gift her something extra to reward her for her generosity. We therefore built her a small, 3 roomed, tin roofed, brick built house. This house is very exciting because it also has electricity, a bathing space, a cooking area and a toilet (pit latrine – this lady did not previously have a dug / built pit latrine). Here you can see her newly painted house and kitchen in the first picture and her bathing space and toilet in the second. In the background you can also make out her neighbours’ mud thatched houses. The clinic at Kambilonjo is now open for business and has been named the Dochas medical centre. ‘Dochas’ is Gaelic for ‘Hope’. It is our hope that the Dochas medical centre will bring hope in times of despair in the community of Kambilonjo. See the attached picture of he clinic where in the foreground is our very own doctor in training- Chifundo, who has just completed his second year of his medical training at Malawi College of Medicine. Chifundo is a local boy from Kambilonjo and one of the many orphans that we have supported through school and into further education. Maybe one day Chifundo will come back to Kambilonjo and work with us here! For now he is assisting the trained staff in any way he can. A team consisting of 7 people (Cailin Smith, Rebecca Ramsay, Charis Bowie, Sheila Dunphy, Fraser Dunphy, Naomi Dunphy and myself) will be heading out to work with our two centres from late June to late July. We will be able to provide a much more detailed report and update on our return! Until then, thanks for your continued support and please keep the centres and our children in your prayers. Many thanks Becky
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