Recovering from Cyclone Idai
Classrooms at Mitole suffered a serious battering during the storms earlier in the year. Of the eight classrooms in situ, two had walls blown down whilst another block of three lost the roof. Happily repairs are now just about finished prior to the anticipated immense heat in October and November and rains in December
The picture below shows how the classrooms looked following the storm
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A damaged block following the cyclone
Other News
Distribution
This is where the ‘giving’ arm of N4BW as opposed to the ‘development’ arm comes into force.
Covid-19 rates soar in Malawi
At the end of December there had been a total of 6000 cases in Malawi but by the end of January the number of cases had quadrupled bringing the total to 23953.
Clean hands every time
Long before the threat of Covid-19, volunteers were keen on teaching about the benefits of hand washing especially using soap.