Was That What I Thought It Was?
People of Malawi, Nation of Malawi, About Malawi At first no one noticed the boy standing beside the road to Lilongwe. Then all of a sudden just as they were passing
the spot where he was standing everyone did a double take. “What was that,” seemed to erupt from nearly every voice at the same moment. The question really did not need to be asked. Everyone knew what it was that they had seen. The question came because no one believed what their eyes and their minds were telling them. Almost all of them had heard it when they attended training sessions back in the states before coming to Malawi. But in all of the information overload that was flooded on them in the months before the trip to Africa it had seemed to be one of those things that wasn’t true until you really saw it first hand. Well, first hand had arrived and everyone was craning their necks to see behind them and see the boy with the group of mice on the stick that he was selling along the road.
The driver turned a little in the seat, slowed as he rounded one of the final curves that would give entrance to the sight of the capital off in the distance. Several times on the way from Lumbadzi they had seen the smoke trails snaking skyward and around some of the curves they could see the small boys off in the nearby fields standing around small fires. They had erroneously thought what they were seeing was the clearing of the earth for the soon to come crop planting. But most of the scenes were not the scenes they thought they were observing. What they were actually seeing were the mice hunts. Read the rest of this entry »















setting to find those who get involved for the long term and remain committed to one place year in and year out. One of those who has committed themselves to the nation of Malawi for the long term is Daniel Shipley of Knoxville, Tennessee. Daniel and his parents, Dean and Jamie, have been involved in Malawi for years.
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Likisina Khumbulasi was born thirty years ago. She learned to walk as a small child but at the age of six she became very sick. She nearly died from the unknown illness which paralyzed her legs and hand. After sometime she learned to use her hands but remains unable to walk.