Once again, I didn't have time to write something for you, but I uploaded a video of the women's group that I'm working with. They've built a mushroom-growing house and I helped them plant the mushroom spawn. They should be harvesting mushrooms in a month or so, and will sell them for additional income. I'll tell you more about it later. Check it out:
Mtendere Women's Group - Preparing to Plant Mushrooms
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
Video and Pics from my site!
First, check out my post below about the amazing tour I took yesterday of the Heifer International dairy project. It was spectacular! Then, check out a photo album of what I’ve been up to at my site here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196329&id=535098122&l=3a7e23682b
And, check out a !!!VIDEO!!! tour of my home in Malawi. I apologize in advance that some of it is a bit dark – no electricity for lights here in Malawi. But, I think it will help you get a little better sense of what life is like here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOK7AygElkg
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196329&id=535098122&l=3a7e23682b
And, check out a !!!VIDEO!!! tour of my home in Malawi. I apologize in advance that some of it is a bit dark – no electricity for lights here in Malawi. But, I think it will help you get a little better sense of what life is like here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOK7AygElkg
Cows in Malawi!!!
If you know me, you know how much I love cows, having grown up on a dairy farm and yada, yada, yada... So, I was in cow heaven yesterday when I took a tour of Heifer International’s dairy cow project in Mchinji district in the western part of Malawi. The staff at Heifer Malawi were kind enough to set up a very nice tour for me and two of my fellow Peace Corps volunteers, and I can’t begin to adequately express how impressed and inspired we were by what we saw.
See an entire photo album of the day here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196707&id=535098122&l=d58b84274d
For a quick summary, there were several things that really stuck out to me about the day. First, the quality of the cows that Heifer has provided to their project participants is, I think, remarkable. I spent many years judging dairy cows in the States, and I can tell you that these cows are as good as any cows on my family’s farm in North Carolina, and in a dairy show, they would stack up with the best. You would expect that cows sent to poor people in a third-world country would be second-rate, but these were top-notch. Heifer runs a classy operation. Secondly, I was amazed at the determination and drive of the Malawian participants in this project. They started their group, the Bua Milk Bulking Group, in 2005, with a vision of having a large project to bring milk cows into the area to provide nutrition and income for participants. For years, they applied for assistance and tried to find ways of making the dream a reality. Finally, last year, Heifer International decided to work with this group as its first project run out of the newly created Heifer Malawi office. The fact that they worked for four years toward a goal that must have seemed impossibly out of reach is a clear indicator of the passion and fortitude of these people. Now that the project has started, the participants are putting in countless hours to build pens, gather feed, and care for the animals. I’m inspired by the people I met yesterday and I hope that I can find that same drive in the people of my community.
You can support Heifer International at www.heifer.org.
I’m running out of computer time right now, but hope to tell you a little more about this project, and what I’m doing at my site, in the very near future.
See an entire photo album of the day here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=196707&id=535098122&l=d58b84274d
For a quick summary, there were several things that really stuck out to me about the day. First, the quality of the cows that Heifer has provided to their project participants is, I think, remarkable. I spent many years judging dairy cows in the States, and I can tell you that these cows are as good as any cows on my family’s farm in North Carolina, and in a dairy show, they would stack up with the best. You would expect that cows sent to poor people in a third-world country would be second-rate, but these were top-notch. Heifer runs a classy operation. Secondly, I was amazed at the determination and drive of the Malawian participants in this project. They started their group, the Bua Milk Bulking Group, in 2005, with a vision of having a large project to bring milk cows into the area to provide nutrition and income for participants. For years, they applied for assistance and tried to find ways of making the dream a reality. Finally, last year, Heifer International decided to work with this group as its first project run out of the newly created Heifer Malawi office. The fact that they worked for four years toward a goal that must have seemed impossibly out of reach is a clear indicator of the passion and fortitude of these people. Now that the project has started, the participants are putting in countless hours to build pens, gather feed, and care for the animals. I’m inspired by the people I met yesterday and I hope that I can find that same drive in the people of my community.
You can support Heifer International at www.heifer.org.
I’m running out of computer time right now, but hope to tell you a little more about this project, and what I’m doing at my site, in the very near future.
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