On their way home

25th June 2016:

Just four weeks later and the final five head for home.
Thai was a stop off in Kasungu to a leg stretch and a soho, with about one hour to go th the airport.
Up at 4.30am and they still look amazing.
They have just done it all.
What they have done is real development. They did the business of succeeding and making a serious impact on what they are competent at, teaching, and made all the connections and joined the dots.
They won't pretend to have done building, plastering or bricklaying, but they can talk about how they joined women in weeding, and carrying water, collecting seeds. They raised the dignity of those menial tasks and made them more acceptable and valued. They were an inspiration to all they met and truly amazing.
They will go home with a real knowledge of how good life is in Ireland. They will have got down and close to the real people of Malawi, who took them to their hearts. They will be better people and teachers and will certainly  be better able to teach their students of the inequity and pretence of our glamorised, globalized World.

Finally they will realize that no matter how bright any of the 98 girls we support are in Secondary school are , they have only the slightest of chances of reaching their true potential, with many becoming slaves to tradition and culture in a life of mere subsistence survival. And know that they have been saved from this by an accident of birth  and geography.
Other pic shows Mary and the unique Rose