Days 7 and 8: Building Bridges
Everywhere you go in Malawi you will find piles of bricks. Stacks of bricks formed into kilns waiting to be baked into completion. Hardened red bricks tossed into...
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...
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...
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...
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...