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Days 5 and 6: The Friendship Trip Begins!

On Wednesday morning after dropping Trudi off at the Chimpeni School for her daily lesson, Liz, Jordan, Kwondani and I drove into Blantyre to pick up the...
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Day 4: The VIP Family

Over the next several weeks VIP will be hosting two friendship teams here in Malawi. Humanitarians and missionaries from Texas, Illinois, New York and New Jersey will...
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Day 3: The Power of Education

We woke up bright and early on Monday morning so that we could take Trudi to her first day as a guest science teacher. Trudi is taking...
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Day 2: New Friends

As I am quickly, and at times painfully, discovering, Malawi is very much a morning culture. Because the sun sets so early, between 6 and 7 all...
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Day 1: From Malawi With Love

As I stepped out onto the tarmac at Blantyre airport and looked up at the bright blue Malawian sky, I didn’t feel like I had just been...
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