This week has been spent tracking down our scholarship recipients and moving the coffee/tea/craft shop proposal for orphan care forward. Finding the 55 scholarship recipients and their families and giving them the good news has been a rewarding experience as you might guess. Your gifts have brought great happiness to the plateau and beyond. We have stressed that Straight to the Heart Bursary represents the combined contributions of many from faraway places called Wisconsin and Minnesota in the U.S.A.
Mary has been busily accumulating supplies for the coffee/tea/craft shop and making arrangements to have the space thoroughly cleaned and painted. We had one false start this week as the painters arrived late, worked for a short time while making quite a mess, and then left early, apparently convinced that the job was more than they could handle. But word travels fast here, and by the next morning a more able, experienced painter had arrived on the scene and offered up his services, and things were soon back on track.
On Saturday, I climbed Chombe Mountain with two young Malawian friends. The seven-hour round trip included two hours spent dangling our feet over the rock cliff face at the top, enraptured by the azure-blue lake thousands of feet below and the meandering coastline running north to the Chilumba peninsula and beyond. A stiff breeze kept us comfortably cool despite the strong midday sun, and a family of velvet monkeys provided additional entertainment. Chombe - not to be missed on your next trip to Malawi.
Here’s hoping that your lettuce, snow peas and spinach will soon be poking their heads through the soil and your crocuses and daffodils are in full bloom.
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