its the weekend again............

Hello everyone,

Its been a couple of weeks since I have written but again its just hectic - I never seem to have a minute and today we have no electricity yet again.....or water..........

The school building is coming on - the roof has started and hopefully during the next week the iron sheets will start going on.

This is a picture of the school building just this afternoon so as you can see things are progressing well. Thanks to all the latest donations............

We were out monitoring a school in Ekwendeni Presbytery. Here you can see Nicolas doing some action songs with the children.

Fiona (no, its not me, Nicolas and Memory outside the school - its a beautiful day as you can see.

One of the caregivers chatting to Memory our trainer in Ekwendeni Presbytery.

Some of the lovely kids........

The school is in a beautiful location with lovely wild flowers all around. Rains have almost stopped now so the grass is drying up.

This week I was attending a workshop in Lilongwe where we are establishing an Early Childhood Development Coalition in Malawi comprising of several civil society groups. On the way we came across this accident. A large lorry carrying tobacco behind the one in the picture had fallen down and people were attempting to pulll it up. They tried and they failed and eventually we were allowed to pass...........this time of year is hazardous on the roads with the tobacco lorries overloaded and often broken down!

The workshop was good fun as well as being hard work. The people who attended are in the photo below - spot the white one in the back row!!

Tomorrow morning I am off to Zomba (its only about 9 hours driving) for another workshop on Curriculum development in Early Childhood. At the same time we have a two week training course going on in Mzuzu. So, its all go as usual!!
Wishing you a great week.

Blessings

Diane