August

Malawi Entreprenuership Development Institute (MEDI) where Peace Corps Volunteers ran the week-long Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) camp.  I taught four sessions: "Career Counseling," "Starting a Business," "Healthy Sexual Relationships" and "Healthy Sexual Practices."

MEDI

GLOW campers and Peace Corps Volunteers.  I made the poster :)

The Queen Bees

The Clovers

Team 6-cess

Ndingathe! (I can do it!)

Ladies of Various Ethnicities (LOVE)

Precious Ambitious Girls (PAG)

Yes We Can!  Yes We Will!

Performance by a drama group

GLOW resources

First Aid and Penises (the wooden penises are for condom demonstrations)

GLOWing breakfast

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The First Lady of Malawi - Madame Callista Mutharika - gave a motivational address at Camp GLOW.

people milling around after the First Lady's address

a break at mid-service conference in Dedza

gold shoes!

a Scrabble game with friends



































 







July

peas, onions, tomatoes, peanuts, cutting board 

A family friend sent me some money to buy six soccer balls.  I gave one of them to the maternity ward. 

 

pregnant women playing with the soccer ball

Youth club with donated soccer ball and books.  A group of girls and a group of boys from the group also wrote"daily activity schedules,"which we used to talk about gendered division of labor and also the best time to have future meetings.  

girls working on their daily activity schedule

 boys working on their daily activity schedule

A soccer team with their new ball

youth playing with their new soccer ball

Nala and Mtima sleeping on my bed

teenage boys' map of their village

teenage girls' map of their village







May and June

world map on my wall

50th Anniversary Poster

papaya tree in my yard

William, a youth from the health center youth club, cooking peanuts (called ground nuts here).  A fellow Peace Corps Volunteer, Scheller, and I taught them to make "Ground Nut Sweeties" to sell as an income generating activity.  

Maria with the finished product.

cute baby

coffee and Harry Potter

Nala with a dead mouse in my backyard.  I'm not sure if she killed it or just found it.

Tattoo on my calf of a phoenix.  I got this right before I left for Malawi.

a Rasta selling crafts at a market in Lilongwe

This is a picture was drawn by a ten year old boy from Kamsonga.  I use it for HIV prevention activities.  The extended metaphor is that there's a flood in the village (HIV prevalence) and people can prevent getting eaten by dangerous animals in the water or drowned by using one of three boats: Abstinence (A), Be Faithful (B), Condom Use (C).  

This is Anna.  She's Japanese and works for World Relief in Lilongwe.  I stay with her when I come to town.  I met her through Nana, my close friend from college, who now works for World Relief in Japan.  

Some youth with sugar cane, which Malawians like to rip with their teeth and eat straight from the stalk. 

The primary school.  We wrote a proposal to repair the bore hole here. 

Students and teachers near the borehole we want to repair.

children coloring at my porch

bales of tobacco