A Photo Journey of Malawi
Learn more about Face-to-Face AIDS Project’s work in Malawi through the eyes of one of its volunteers, Lauren Smyth who traveled to Malawi this summer. If you’re interested in helping Lauren raise funds for the Kang’oma Youth Group, check out her campaign on Crowdrise.
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- This year was an incredibly successful harvest! With more rain and even better crop development, everyone reported a lot of maize harvested this May. Hoorah!
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- Although the giant-mortar-and-pestle is both traditional and easily accessible, the electric grinder makes grinding maize much quicker and easier. However, this one had been broken for quite some time–at least a few months when I was in Kang’oma in May.
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- I just loved the contrast between the proper, well-kept girls…and the crazy boys.
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- I just loved the contrast between the proper, well-kept girls…and the crazy boys.
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- These were some of the only evidence of outside organizations in the 5 villages around the Kang’oma Youth Group office.
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- The UNICEF well was a much more recent construction than the government’s, but both were constructed in the last ten or fifteen years.
I’ll admit–neither of them could play very well. But with the gift Ken gave the Chadika Youth Group on one of his visits (I think?), and a homemade instrument, Sandram and Richard were able to pluck out songs. They hope they can keep practicing in the future, and impress everyone who comes to visit!
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