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Motorbiking

Sorry for being so quiet but I am still alive and kicking.

Well, I was in Lilongwe for the past 3 weeks. First attending a peer support meeting with all the VSO volunteers who work under secure livelihoods and after that doing my motorbike training to get the motorbike license. Basicly the training could have been done in a week but just for that fuel again it took us some more time to finish the course. But I am fully licensed to ride a motorbike now and that´s pretty awesome!


Easter I spent at Nkhata Bay. It was beautiful, amazing, I really enjoyed it. So today I am finally back at work after being away almost a month. Doesn´t look like much have changed since I last attended a meeting at our work place.. I guess that´s the Malawian time. The same issues we discussed a month ago are still here though progress is there but it´s very slowly. Because of no fuel again (do I even need to mention that anymore..) I will do what I can this week and hopefully head to the field next week. We are working on some gender issues, how to secure the livelihoods of women. Especially in farming it´s the women who do the work and on top of that they also take care of the children, cooking, cleaning. Another issue is HIV and for that I will bring my knowledge from my experience of HIV/AIDS work in Zambia. So for this week I am moving aside from cows and concentrate on the farmers themselves for a while.

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