My brother has two 2 children who are receiving their education at Makande Community Day Secondary. I received the school report from the school they are doing their studies.
It was very annoying to see that the first born (male) remarks from school were very poor. I followed the issue and found out that the young boy does not attend classes frequently. His sister’s report was impressive.
My last born brother married five years ago. He had been depending on our parents to earn good living together with his wife.
Mum and dad decided to direct him to start the new life. They said that he should learn how to lead independent life. They called other elders to advise them on how they can start their new life whereby the couple would be responsible to source food and other family necessities themselves. We locally call this as fuwa (a couple preparing food for themselves without parents or guardians’ assistance).
Aubrey and I left at 12:08 for Hope Lodge to have lunch. We booked our preferred meal. Aubrey booked chips served with chicken. I booked nsima served with beef.
My friend Aubrey admired nsima when he was taking his chips. I told him that I go for our staple food regardless that it was a Lodge.
The man left his wife at her parents’ home for his original home for almost 6 months. Most people in Chinangwa village thought that they separated.
The woman decided to start brewing kachaso (local brewed beer with unmeasured high alcoholic percentage). She was able to care herself and children.
The man came at around 5pm and found the woman totally drunk. The man had nothing to say for he was told that she started taking beer for she understood that there was nobody who could order her what to do.
The Kasinthula Cane Growers has the Trust Deed that guides farmers on how to run an organisation. The deed states that the elected members to take responsibility of representing farmers in all dimensions should be in a position for three years.
The current committee members agreed with the board members that their term shall continue until the term of the board directors which is almost 2 years.
When the issue came to ordinary farmers it held no more water. Some farmers referred the issue to the District Commissioner for assistance. More farmers are not happy with the current committee members specifically the Fairtrade Premium Committee and the main body committees for phase one and phase two.
The District Commissioner advised the complaining farmers that the Kasinthula management, some Traditional leaders and the Paramount Chief Lundu would meet on 4th May to set the Election Day. All farmers were then comfortable because they understood that the committee’s term was over and the new members should take over.
I always go on holiday early February. This year I had been asking my bosses to go for holiday.
The always say that I have a lot to do. This has made me tired. Every morning I think of making myself absent but I can’t due to the pressure of the work located to me. I applied for the one week holiday but still it did not work. I was told it would be considered for mid June.
I was about to go for lunch at Dyeratu when I received the mail from FLO-CERT. I went through it. I forwarded the mail to my bosses.
I urgently printed the 2 page document and presented it to the members. They also asked me to interpret into our local language. They all understood what was required by FLO-CERT for Kasinthula to get complied in and every time in order to continue selling sugar on Fairtrade deal for the betterment of the poor community.
My wife and I left home together on the bicycle which I rode. We diverted at Dyeratu when she was going to Lauji village to attend church services and I was proceeding to school.
When I was about to knock off at 3:45pm, I received a call from my father-in-law that my wife was sick. He also noted me that she was already referred to Chikwawa hospital and found malarial positive. I thanked them for the urgent assistance they offered to my wife.
I left home for Blantyre but Junior made me almost to be absent. His mother was at the borehole drawing water. When I about to ride the bicycle he started crying that he wanted to go with me where I was leaving for.
I tried to buy him some sweets and biscuits so that he may stay at home waiting for his mother when she would be back from the borehole but it wouldn’t work. He clicked on my bicycle. I stayed waiting for his mother that made me to be late with almost 1 hour.
It was proposed that almost 12 Chinangwa based women shall be the piggery project beneficiaries, some of them lost hope for it has taken longer than they were expecting.
I was just arriving from the office around 6pm, some of these targeted women got me. They asked if the project is a failure or not. I told them that the project cannot fail but preparing the business plan is complicated. I also told them that the plan was already finished but one was damaged by my laptop and that I started preparing the new one. They really understood. I also advised them that to source funds is a tougher issue than utilization.
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