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Days 10 and 11: Safari!

Liz knows that for many of the friendship team participants (including me) this is their first trip to Africa. Because of that, and as a little break...
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Day 9: Home Visits With The Most Vulnerable Families

We woke at 7:00 on Sunday morning and donned our nicest shirts, ties and dresses and headed off to church. Meeting us at the church would be...
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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...
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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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