Moni achemwali & achemwene,
Alley and I are settled in Malawi Africa now! Still having trouble with internet but hope to be in touch as much as possible. Please email us at this new email account for the next year. Also, kindly take us off your “forwards” list! The connection is VERY slow and forwards make it difficult to receive all our emails!
(Andesen came to Mtendere fragile and malnourshed. Now he is healthy and driving!)
The Month of January was a lot of adjustments! Alley celebrated her 9th b’day and started a new school! Fortunately she is loving school here! Driving is very DIFFERENT here! Not only am I on the other side of the car, but the other side of the road. I got 2 flat tires in one week! I have learned where the pot holes are now! We have had only one snake under our bed!
It is rainy season and pouring down! We have been working on construction of the houses (only 12 more houses to complete), repairing broken windows, plumbing, roofing, and working on getting electricity etc….
The kids are doing well. We have had 5 kids with Malaria (out of 137). There are many mosquitoes so keep the kids in your prayers.
One quick story:
You know how we have all sat back very full from a meal and still have loads of food on the table and someone says, “it’s a shame all this food is going to waste, some kid in Africa would be glad to eat our leftovers”. Well I saw this Malawian man at a hole-n-the wall restaurant eating chicken and rice. When he was finished, he stretched his arm through the bars on the window and two skinny arms of a street child reached in and took his left overs.
It really made me stop in my tracks. I get to see our kids (all 137 of them) eat 3 meals a day, and I feel so satisfied, so blessed and excited, and I have forgotten about these street kids. A lot of people shun them everyday. Know one wants to “raise up a generation of beggars”, so we all just pass them by doing nothing. Of course we don’t want to hand out money to beggars, but what this man did was a simple way of helping God’s children.
Continue to pray for Mtendere Village, but also please pray for all the street children, I have forgotten to inform you of in the past!
God Bless you all,
Zikomo Quambiri,
Dana
