On Saturday morning I left my house at 7:30 and boarded a coach at 8:00 to go to the day care. The plan was to be there at lunch to see the children. When I got on the bus it was half full. By 9:45 it was full with only a few people standing and [...]

Today some of the children brought coloured pencils and crayons. It made life a lot easier. One boy, Ernest, went to a shop and bought a Mickey Mouse art kit. It has crayons, paints, pastels scissors and a ruler. This is a boy who goes all out. This same boy told [...]

Jennifer,
I would like to let you know that the money you wired whilst in Canada is in the Itatu account now.Thank you very much for all your efforts, we can discuss more when you come. The name of the new girl who replaced John is Rita Zingwa. Everything is going on well so far and [...]

It has come to my attention that some of you are disappointed in the use of the Itatu website for updates about my work here in Malawi. I have been told that some of you thought the posts were inteneded only for news of the orphans. I assumed that many of you would [...]

Today was a bad day at school. The children were no less impulsive than yesterday. They cannot even follow simple instructions. I know that my accent must be challenging for them but it seems that some understand while most do not. I looked in their notebooks and found neat rows of printing and computation questions [...]