Certre for Learning

12th March 2016:

At the moment we are enabling 84 girls to take up their places in secondary schools who otherwise would be staying at home and wasting their lives away because of poverty. Paying fees is an issue but so are many other obstacles which have to be overcome.
On Saturdays we have this makeshift centre where we now employ four of the best teachers we could find to work with the girls on, mainly, mathematic and English, but now other subjects as well.
Of course most come without having a breakfast, because of the huge faming among the rural poor, so we have to feed them.
Here is Phil on the Nsima, the Malawi staple. They got beans as well and they thought it was the party of all parties.
Just to let you know how most of these girls value education: eight walked 18 kilometres (maybe 4 hours) to be there and none walked less than half an hour.
Benjamin took 25 of the furthest back to their home areas.

It is such an unfair world and a more unfair country, where in our 11 years here the rich have got much richer assisted by stealing foreign AID, while the poor are poorer because no one here really cares.

As a catholic with a small C, I was delighted to hear the Bishops Pastoral letter read or sumarised this morning, looking at the state of the nation. It was very balanced but left no doubt about the severe difficulties, facing the poor. Here I feel that the church IS the church of the poor, giving a strong message.
It was such a Bishops Pastoral Letter, later supported by all churches spelled the end of the Dictator Kamuzu Banda 

Hote: Our new rocket stove, operating on about 20% of the book uses in the open fire!!Girls education, Walking-to-school, Hunger-in -Malawi