As always I have found the young children
to be mesmerizing which is reflected in all the pictures I am taking. The children love having their photos taken
(we ask first) then scream in delight when we show them the image on the
back. I have been overwhelmed on a
couple of occasions when young children have walked beside us along the road or
through the village and spontaneously held our hands.
The bank was fun today. Excellent service inside to exchange pounds
and dollars (although they couldn’t accept a £5 Scottish note!) and then we
headed outside to get money from our pre-deposited cards (safer to travel
with). Here you can only get the
equivalent of £80 out at a time so we stood there as the line got longer and
longer behind us, making transaction after transaction until we reached our
daily limit! The line was already long
enough because the machine had run out of money but was certainly longer after
us!
I was humbled at the visit to the hospital. I enjoyed speaking to our friend Jane about
the Committee’s goat project and her very important role in helping to
facilitate it. We also met with Dr. Ruth,
the Director of the hospital, and
discussed some of the problems experienced by women in childbirth in Malawi.
There are women who walk miles upon miles and even travel across the border
from Mozambique to receive treatment at the Mulanje Mission Hospital while in
child birth. We met a lovely woman at the Waiting House (very sparse, concrete
rooms but close to the labour ward) who looked like she was going to give
birth. Jane suggested she call the baby
Fiona....that would be fantastic! Jane
also took me on a tour of the labour wards which have changed from a huge room
with curtains separating birthing mothers to individual rooms which encourage
partners and family to support the mothers.
I also had a wee peak at a baby born just this morning via c-section.
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