Last full day in Malawi

1.30 on Saturday and we have just left our village with 2 new houses built with our own hands and both with a roof! A 3 hour ceremony with the area chief, Dyson, and other local chiefs thanking us and many speeches from everyone with Dan being an excellent translator. Each member of the team received a certificate of competence in house building. Watch out Bovis!! Many dances and songs and play acting and we had to sing for them and enjoyed dancing with them.

A very emotional farewell after sharing lunch with our families - rice, nsima, beans, peas, cabbage, goat and chicken cooked by the ladies of the village. It was great that Regina, Moffat, Precious, John, and Estina, Ivan, Stern and Ipson could join us. They only eat one meal a day which is usually just nsima, so the children in particular just ate and ate. Their next meal will be a handful of nsima tomorrow lunchtime. They are ecstatic about their new homes (they are in the legal ownership of the children to safeguard their future) and can't wait to move in.

 

Off to the beach this afternoon - the first real break of the week - and not looking forward to the 26 hour trip home starting tomorrow.

Now at the Sunbird Livingstonia to eat - and they have WiFi which works!