Sunday 28 September 2014

Kids of Tiyamike Center



                                                             Tiyamike Center



Here is a video of the kids playing, Below I have attached various photos of the kids interacting at the center. There are quite a few pictures and it would be best seen on a full screen so the pictures are enlarged , then you can get a better feel for what is going on. God Bless

Notice how young the little girl is with the baby wrapped on her back. They start very young learning how to wrap and carry a baby around on there backs.



Young girls dancing after church on a Sunday afternoon.

Carmella and Maise.


Little John, remember he was the boy who could not walk. I sent a video showing him walking like a champ a few blogs ago.

Loaded in the back of the truck, ready for the 3 hr drive to Bangula from Blantyre.

Johan with a weaved plant holder he made out of bambo.

Looking out the front gate toward the runway at Tiyamike.

Dwayne the soccer coach,notice the bamboo posts ( Pre-soccer nets ) now we have the nets to play with Amen

Me and Hudson, my African dog.

Feeding program for some younger kids ( 3 times a day)

Gertrude with a massive box on her head, they carry everything on there heads.
Charles building a new carpenter shop.

Alyzza and Mary with a little doll made from mud. ( will have a blog on what these kids can make from mud. Amazing

Some older girls at the roundabout.

Getting ready to make some mud.
Nice new yellow soccer shirt ( Thanks Coquitlam soccer)

Ruth with her bandana

Little Lydia

Teaching John some computer skills.

Teaching Mark some computer skills.

The two Johns

The blackboard with Indpendance day writings.

Jessie with a couple of the young kids

Armon dressed for church.

These kids live by the secondary school we are remodeling, they come and visit everyday ( hook them up with lolipops)

What a special photo of Grace, she is in the previous picture, look for the blue shoes.



Ben and Peter.

Ben & Peter and Jeremy and Isacc

The whole gang of younger boys.

Good old Arnold, Working at the shop.

Dwayne saying Good bye from Malawi
O.K one more shot of me and the baby kittens.



 I hope you have enjoyed the pictures of some of the children. I pray they may have given you a bit of a feel for what it is like here at Tiyamike.I am going to be coming back to Canada ( Vancouver) in 2 weeks. I will be flying back on Oct 16th, I can not believe it has been 6 months already. God what do you want me to do now .

Amen

Saturday 27 September 2014

The Reality of Africa



                                                                    The Village





Dont mind the wind, but look at the sights in the video, We had to go 8 km  of the main road to take a child to her village. This is what it looks like for hundreds of miles when you start  heading to the back woods of Africa. Notice how the dirt roads are, and then you can see how a village looks with straw huts and little brick buildings. That is the extent of what the back roads of Africa look like for mile after mile after mile. It is dirt road and fields, then a little village and it goes on and on and on. Below are some pictures as we drove and arrived at the village. Looking at the pictures and video Full screen will do it more justice. Amen


A typical view, trees in the background are massive.

Yes, that would be the road, and a white tree ?

Your Serengetti African tree, this one is about 800 - 1000 years old. The bottom of the trunk is twice the size of the road .



Bathrooms, outside a school. No running water anywhere, bore holes and buckets.

A school on the way to the village.

Someones home.

Very desolate these places.

Bamboo fence and straw roofs, the norm out here.

The older houses are round.


A very normal house, round with a straw roof and about 6-8 people will live here.





They burn everything here in Africa.

 

                                Views from the road/ Going to Blantyre

Beautiful view going up the Valley grade.

A village in the Valley

Trucks loaded as high as possible on the road a lot.

Soccer game on a African soccer field.

Part of the hillside

Homes in a village along the road.

This is the Main Highway going through malawi ( 2 lanes).

You see little settings like this every 20 - 30 km.

Out for a stroll.

Just cruising along

Road side hut.

Selling charcoal, wrapped in white, standing.

They have Palm trees every now and then.

It must be 5:00 p.m, all year, 365 days a year it gets dark by 5:15