After visiting my wife’s uncle, I was given fresh bananas, which my family enjoyed breakfast. Wife’s uncle gave me fresh bananas from his ‘dimba’ fertile flat swampy area garden that is used all the year round growing fruits and many agricultural crops like maize, vegetables, bananas and or cassava. I enjoyed nice breakfast because I bought fresh cow milk that was prepared to have nice tea. “Had it been that we have swampy dambo area we could grow our own bananas because it is delicious with tea” my wife admired.
At lunchtime, I did not go home, instead Robert and I went to nearest market to take chips with a bottle of coke that we were satisfied our hunger. Robert decided that we could go home, but I told him that was impossible because it is about 4.5km to get home from working place.
One day my wife’s uncle visited us home. My wife and I welcomed him for his visit. When he was leaving back for his home, he asked me to visit him one day. “It would be so grateful if you visit me home at Kakoma, almost a 25km from home Chinangwa village. I paid an excuse to my wife that I was wishing to visit her uncle. “Is going to welcome you. Are you going alone? If you leave me wish you nice trip” she told me. “I am going alone, next time I shall take you” I told her. I left at 8am and arrived at 9:50am by cycling. When uncle saw me was so happy together with his entire family. His daughter prepared a nice meal for me. After meeting several wife’s relatives, I left back for home at 4pm. His daughter gave me a live chicken to take as relish together with my wife at home. I appreciated that warm welcome and then reported to my wife.
I woke up while tired as if I was feeling fever, but I was quite ok. My wife prepared breakfast that I took and then left for work together with Robert. He was cycling and I boarded. However, though was morning, but it was hot and sunny. Instead of experiencing cool weather as it winter, everybody was complaining with the day’s weather. Robert and I left for home as was half working hour day. We knocked of at 12noon.
I already taken a bath, but my wife reminded me of the need to apply first fertilizer application. I understood the potential for this day to apply fertilizer. I communicated my boss to let him know that I was not going to attend the work for I was temporarily busy applying fertilizer to my winter maize cropping. I took 30kgs of DAP fertilizer on my bicycle while my wife was behind preparing breakfast. I started working. My wife got me there with rice porridge that I took after completing 2lines of almost 115 meters long each. My friend got me still applying and asked why I was alone applying without asking someone else to assist me. “I like to apply myself even my wife can not assist me because I always want to make sure that each and every hole is filled with fertilizer as well as the high fertilizer cost. I always after proper work” I told my friend.
Safety awareness. After knocking off from the garden, I left for Nchalo. I watched a safety awareness that was conducted by Malawi Traffic Police. Many people watched the ceremony because there were dramas and songs played by the police. The traffic officers said that many people have recently lost their relatives due to traffic ignorance. They said that a pedestrian should understand the road regulations when wants to cross the road. When walking during the night hours pedestrians and or cyclist should put on white clothes. After Nchalo awareness, they proceeded to Dyeratu trading centre for the same purpose.
Early morning my wife did not let chicken to go out for food, because there was a veterinary assistant to provide drugs for prevention of several chicken diseases. The veterinary assistant advised chicken’s owners to mix drugs with food. Many people had to treat their chicken.
Tired of footing. After taking breakfast, I left for the work while it was bright sunshine. My bicycle was not in good condition that was when I just started walking to work. I left home at 6:34am and arrived at 7:26am. At lunch hour, I went home for lunch. It was nice lunch because I took nsima with vegetables.
A man who came with his family to live permanently at Chinangwa village last year, 2007, but he separated with wife. People noted that they were always arguing over family issues. After few months, a man married another woman. Competitively, the former wife married another man who stayed in the same village, Chinangwa. Unfortunately, the woman started to persuade her ex-husband to be reunited. They were meeting secretly. A woman chased her current husband without proper reasons with an aim of reuniting the former husband. Many people in the village noted that the woman was very unfaithful. That visitor informed members that the other day would be visitors from Sainsbury company one the biggest shop in UK.
One this day’s night those men met at the wife’s house. They started fighting over that woman. Ex-husband was almost faint due to heavy blow from the chased husband. Eyewitness said that it was like a drama because that controversial woman was failing to rescue them. It was early morning while others were leaving for the work at about 5am.
Sainsbury visit, the premium committee was so happy to have received other visitor, which was encourageous to the organization. They visited electrification and borehole projects at Chinangwa village. They promised to buy more sugar from Kasinthula Cane Growers. They confirmed that Fairtrade consumers in UK are looking forward to seeing more social economic development projects.
The past day I was looking for my pen, which was lost. I woke up early around 4pm to look for it, but it did not found. I wanted it too much because it was a gift from Wholesome Sweeteners’ visitors that was labeled Wholesome Sweeteners.
Silver Spoon visit, when I got to the work I was called by the general manager who briefed me about the visit of some Silver Spoon officials. At 2pm, all premium committee members were at the office looking forward for the visitor. The visitor encouraged the present premium members to continue being compliant with the Fairtrade Labeling Organized standards, which all members agreed to be compliant with FLO requirements. They visited some already implemented projects through premium fund. Some of the projects, which they visited, were extension of Kasinthula clinic and Chinangwa electrification project. After visiting, she congratulated premium committee for the implementation of the social economic developments.
Wife’s mobile phone stolen, when I was at the work I received a call from my friend Alfred Butao who informed me that a certain young boy stole my wife’s mobile phone. My wife was at the borehole drawing water. When she got home, she looked for it, but not found. “Have you seen someone strange entering the house?” she asked builders who were plastering my extended house. “A boy who told us that you have gone to the borehole was the one who entered the house, but we thought is related to you or he used to be here” answered the builder. My wife asked one of the neighboring members who saw him where he went. Some two boys assisted my wife by following where he left. He was found at a Nedi village about 4.5km from Chinangwa village. That phone was already sold, when he was found. He revealed who bought that stolen cell phone after arrested.
I woke up early morning around 4am. I informed my friend Robert to pay an excuse that I was not going to attend the job because I wanted to draw water for my extended house to be plastered. I went to my parents to take and drive farm cart. I went to the cane fields’ canal to draw water easily than at the borehole. I drew 240 liters, which was used by the builder. I appreciated nice job.
With irrigation system for cane plantation, some farmers especially phase two they benefit from water that used to irrigate cane for maize grown. Initially farmers were managing to plant three times per year, but due to exhaustion of the soil we are only managing to have two planting season. Even though the plots are small, that can not produce much maize but still farmers survive. I first planted that when all farmers were planting, but the seeds were not in good condition that failed to emerge. I decided to replant. My wife and I left for the garden to replant. We knocked off at 11am.
As our staple food being nsima that is white maize flour cooked as hard porridge taken together with relish like vegetable, meat, beans and many more. The living costs become so hard because most of the daily needs for survival are so expensive. The money I reserved for relish was finished and my family was starving. I went to Nchalo at the bank to draw the only remaining money that I could not manage to cover the whole month. After knocking off Robert and I left for home via Dyeratu trading centre to buy relish. I bought dry fish and some beans. “I don’t know what sort of relish we could take tomorrow. You have done good job to make me having access to relish for these two to four days” My wife said.
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