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Two days of Namitete and a home-stay. Chickens anyone?

What an adventure the last 24 hours have been! Yesterday was day two at Namitete. The second day is when we split up the boys and girls to do empowerment discussions. Monica and I were assigned to 40 girls, which is a HUGE number for empowerment. Considering the numbers, everything…

“Could it get any worse??” “oops.”

Today was quite an adventure! We were supposed to teach a three-day camp at Mnkhupa. We all piled in to the bus and headed down these back roads, but it had rained the night before and so we were sliding all over the road from the mud. After the…

Back to Lilongwe

Back in Lilongwe, we had a chance to meet the translators for the camps. Since we’re in groups of two for the teaching, we’ll have one translator each. All the translators were under 25, one was 17! They were super nice, and ended up busting out…