The team are almost midway through their first week on the project site, can you believe!!
Monday kick started with a fantastic welcoming ceremony, with many smiling, curious faces, from both the Malawi and UK students, lots of singing, and even more dancing!
The team were due to put in a half day's work and were so keen they just wanted to keep going to complete the tasks! This is a fantastic news - the team are clearly hard working and committed to the tasks at hand, which will serve them well in the coming days and weeks, especially under that beautiful warm Malawi sun!
On day two of the project work, some of team went into town to the market, to fetch maize and other food for the team. They would then take the maize to the maize mill for flour making, to turn into Nsima - a staple food of Malawi eaten with almost every meal... See here Nsima being cooked on a traditional three stone fire...
The Educational playground project should be underway today, which will involve a lot of digging in some pretty hard ground! This playground will be a much needed resource for teachers wishing to take learning out of the classroom and introduce some fun into their lessons.
Here you can see a similar playground that was put in place by volunteers at another Quest school in 2012. To give you a quick example of a game, the students can divide into two teams. Each student in turn must find the tyres with the right numbers and math symbols on them (written in chalk earlier), completing the sum called out by the teacher. If they get it right, they can have a point for their team, and sit on their tyre, making the game harder as it goes on... A very simple and effective way for children to learn outside the classroom.
Watch this space for further updates as the team get stuck into their first week and look forward to the weekends activities...
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