Our travel dates are confirmed and our tickets purchased. We leave on June 3 of this year to Malawi!! We are so excited to be able to go and see our friends and help them out again. We will be in Malawi for 3 weeks again this time around with 3 different missions on the go while we are there. We will begin the first week by going to villages close to Lilongwe and we will distribute maize and the Bags of Hope, then we plan to check out schools that we can possibly join forces with and provide scholarship funds directly to the school. Our focus will be educating into the medical field and hopefully some day soon be able to build a medical centre and staff it with our own graduated students!!
Next we will hook up with a local women's group that is teaching women how to earn their own income in order to support themselves and send their children to school. At this time we will have a chance to visit their orphanage they have up in Blantyre. We are so looking forward to going. We are going down as a team of 5 and possibly 7!! That's almost 10 suitcases of needed supplies that we can bring to Malawi with us!!!! Yeah!!
As our departure date draws closer, I've been in contact with many of the Malawian via email and again it's starting to hit home just how much need exists over there. Children and adults are dying over there. They die of malnourishment, AIDS and many other treatable illnesses. It's time to work our hardest at helping them turn their country around. I feel blessed to live in this amazing country where even though we don't earn a huge income or anything - we are completely and totally provided for! Our every physical need is met and much more. We really have no complaints even though those complaints come from my lips very often! It's time to refocus and concentrate on those that really need my help. I know that here are many in Canada and all over the world that need help, but right now Jaako and I feel called to help Malawi and we will do our best to help change it by educating one person at a time, feeding one family at a time and just being there for them.
Take Care,
Sue
