Day
3 sees us visiting the pre-school age nursery that is nearing completion,
funded by John Midgley’s kind and generous efforts. Sadly this nursery
was closed for over two years due to lack of funds. Now its able to offer
children porridge for breakfast, giving them a nourishing start to the day
which they may not manage to have at home.
We
arrived to joyful singing children holding banners welcoming us. This was
immensely touching and frankly overwhelming for all of us. We sat with the
children and exchanged names with some help from the guys from Habitat. The
nursery will hopefully be completed by the end of the month.
It
was then back to work on site. It was amazing to arrive to see just how much we
have achieved in such a short space of time. So up the scaffolding we went
-observing full health and safety regs obviously! To say we were industrious
doesn’t quite explain the speed at which both teams have managed to build.
Although
we have an hour for lunch we all choose to spend half of this time playing and
interacting with the children. The universal language of football has reached
even the most remote village in Salima. However the football the children
currently use is made from plastic bags and a multitude of other materials
bound together with string. Today we brought ecstatic smiles to their faces
with the introduction of a brand new leather football. So many children and
adults across the world take for granted the use of such an object but today
the excitement and resounding pleasure this brought was truly wonderful to
see.
By
the end of the day’s building, both teams had completed the external walls of
each house and had moved on to the internal walls. A feat which has delighted
us all.
Tonight
we are all more weary than before, with aching limbs from all the lifting,
bending and squatting - not all related to the build!!!
So
it’s goodnight from Team Malawi sitting at the bar with a well deserved chilled
one!
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