October

This is Garrett, a Peace Corps Malawi 2010 EducationVolunteer, sitting on one of his kitchen tables.  He lives in a district called Thyolo in the far south.  I visited him in early October and taught his students about responsibility in sexual decision making.

Garrett's living room

Thyolo tea estate

Tea pickers in Thyolo



This is Gibran, a Peace Corps 2011 Health Volunteer.  I visited him in the district of Zomba, which is in the southern region.  This is a bridge in the Zomba botanical gardens.

Gibran's apartment complex in Zomba.  He's in the last unit on the end.  It's two stories and very nice.

Zomba botanical gardens

Zomba

Through the generous donation of friends, family and a spa company, the borehole at the primary school in my village is now functional!

primary school children using the repaired borehole





September

Camp Sky - a Peace Corps Education Camp.  I taught HIV transmission and prevention at this camp.

Lilongwe Wildlife Refuge Center

Fellow Peace Corps Volunteer and Ntchisi resident, Sara Lane's, garden and kitchen.

Sara's house

Sara's living room

egg salad!  tomatoes!  lettace!

Ntchisi Forest



Ntchisi Forest

Ntchisi Forest Lodge

rice with greens, onions and peanut flour

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

num num

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