A couple of months back the authorities in Malawi gave the green light for schools to resume after several months of Coronavirus lockdown.
Although the pupils and staff at COOM academy welcomed this news, the extra conditions concerning social distancing necessary because of Covid-19 presented an impossible burden for them.
Our latest consignment will shortly be on its way. Big thank you to everyone who contributed, even during lockdown.
Earlier this year SALT hosted a two-day seminar with key members of the Malawi Prison Service Chaplaincy team.
It became apparent that the importance of chaplaincy as a distinct role within the service is not fully understood, and we undertook to start working with the team to change that.
Karonga is almost as far north as you can go in Malawi – about 12 hours from our Southern Region base.
Today, brother Raphael visited the prison there to leave some basic PPE and some Gospel literature. Here is his moving report of the visit:
Raphael reports that the task of producing all 2250 masks is now complete and distribution of these and the soap and pails to the remaining prisons in Northern Region will happen this week.
Each inmate will receive Gospel literature along with the hygiene items, so please pray that the Lord will use this to the blessing of many souls.
We again express our gratitude to Raphael and his team who have begun distributing the items purchased through the kindness of the Lord’s people.
Pails, soap and masks have already been distributed in Chitipa and work is underway to sew masks for the remaining five prisons in the region.
Each inmate has also received a supply of Gospel Literature.
Thanks to everyone who has given support to this valuable effort.
The government in Malawi has just re-introduced prevention measures designed to slow the progress of the virus – many of them measures which were lifted a month or two back to facilitate the Presidential election. This U-turn has caused considerable confusion about the issue.
Goodson says, “Lero tawelukila pamepa” – this is where we got to when we knocked off today.
It’s so encouraging to see the job moving forward. Of course, the next stage will necessarily be slower, but this is a great start.
On Saturday past COOM organised a day of training for foster parents of the Orphan children to sensitize in the issue of Covid-19 prevention.
Ok, so it’s a very basic building, but this is great progress in one week from a standing start.
