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Hi, my name is Widi, I am 29 years old and I’m from Malawi. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world, where job demand is practically inexistent. Access to education is a major problem in my country, where most of the kids have to drop out of school in primary or high school because their family can’t afford the school fees. Infant mortality rate is very high (nearly 7% for kids under 5 years old) due to hunger and the lack of medical care.
I live in a small village named Kande where poverty, hunger and inaccessible medical care are most people’s reality. My mom is 60 years old and she is suffering from high blood pressure, which means she often needs hospital services. Yet, she has to educate and take care of 6 of her grandchildren, aged from 3 to 16 years old, while the parents of those kids (my brothers and sisters) are working in South Africa, where job demand is higher than here. That way, they can manage to send a little bit of money to Malawi to support our family, even with the very low salary they get.
A typical meal in Malawi is called nsima, we eat it everyday because it is cheap to produce and very filling. To make nsima, we mix corn flour and hot water and we cook it for a few minutes. Every family has to make their own corn flour in order to be able to eat everyday. The use of a specific machine is needed in order to grind the corn into flour. The nearest one we can go to is expensive to use and it is 45 minutes walking distance, which is a very long and hard walk because of the heavy buckets filled with corn we have to carry on our head. Having one of these machine close to our house would be very helpful, not only for my family but also for the whole village. This machine is expensive, but will be so helpful to my village for the many years to come. Any donation will help us to reach our goal to buy this machine (see the picture below) and therefore, to provide better access to food for people of my community. Thank you from everyone in my village.
I live in a small village named Kande where poverty, hunger and inaccessible medical care are most people’s reality. My mom is 60 years old and she is suffering from high blood pressure, which means she often needs hospital services. Yet, she has to educate and take care of 6 of her grandchildren, aged from 3 to 16 years old, while the parents of those kids (my brothers and sisters) are working in South Africa, where job demand is higher than here. That way, they can manage to send a little bit of money to Malawi to support our family, even with the very low salary they get.
A typical meal in Malawi is called nsima, we eat it everyday because it is cheap to produce and very filling. To make nsima, we mix corn flour and hot water and we cook it for a few minutes. Every family has to make their own corn flour in order to be able to eat everyday. The use of a specific machine is needed in order to grind the corn into flour. The nearest one we can go to is expensive to use and it is 45 minutes walking distance, which is a very long and hard walk because of the heavy buckets filled with corn we have to carry on our head. Having one of these machine close to our house would be very helpful, not only for my family but also for the whole village. This machine is expensive, but will be so helpful to my village for the many years to come. Any donation will help us to reach our goal to buy this machine (see the picture below) and therefore, to provide better access to food for people of my community. Thank you from everyone in my village.
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Widi Banda
Organizer
Québec, QC
