FOR A CHANGE POVERTY ALLEVIATION IN MALAWI

Water is indispensable. Something we do use daily. Especially when every day we have to cook two meals for seventy people, water is extremely important. Therefore we are so happy that there will come running water at the centre. What a blessing!

When we drive across Kwanjana, we can see nice green cornfields all around us. The corn is growing very good this year, and the people look forwards to a promising harvest. But when we stop near a random home and talk to the people who live there, we do not see hope in their eyes. Not hope, but despair. Not happyness about the coming harvest, but feeling troubled about today.

After the heavy rains in March, many houses in Kwanjana collapsed. We were able to provide emergency relief to the 250 families who were affected. We have researched a long-term solution and this means that new houses will be built.

Every day food is prepared for all children of the sponsorprogram, by the mothers and the action committee. That is a big job, especially in the kitchen we have at this moment. It's a small kitchen and temporarily made when it was raining season.