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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 15/08/2008
Will spend the weekend in the capital, greet some new visitors from the U.S. and bid farewell to Eileen, who is heading home with literally thousands of photos on her hard drives. (Eileen wants me to put in that not all of the pictures are good but I've seen many that I liked very much.)Then it& ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 14/08/2008
Have learned in two places now that at least some rural areas of Malawi are already starting to run out of food. Heard predictions in the north last month that people would start running out of food in mid-August. Spoke with a group of folks from villages surrounding Neno this morning and they said ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 14/08/2008
That was the sign above a store we passed last week in the car on the way from Mulanje. Wasnt quick enough to get a picture but just the idea of combining a fish outlet and fashion centre made me smile. Of course, one of the nurses we met in northern Malawi had a thriving business selling dried fish ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 13/08/2008
Want to write more about the trip to Chilimbondo in the Dambe Traditional Authority. We drove for about an hour and a half from Neno on a rocky road ever higher. Went through several areas where there were no villages, but everywhere there were signs of human cultivation: furrowed fields on the hill ...
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Posted by Christine Gorman http://www.blogger.com/profile/02031314317405641083 noreply@blogger.com on 12/08/2008
Just back from three hours on bumpy, dusty roads into the hills right on the border with Mozambique. What a blast and am I ever glad I dont have to do that every day! We packed into the back of an ambulance with Matilda Nyambo and her team from Neno District Hospital and climbed up a rocky, dusty ro ...
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