I have started my job as ward clerk in the children’s ward. I really like it and it is also helping me to practice my Chichewa. The children’s ward has about 40 beds and is pretty much at 200% occupancy. Last weekend there were 95 children in the ward. On Monday morning we discharged about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Lilongwe’
Update from Rebecca: New job
Posted in World Mission, tagged Children's ward, Church of Scotland, death, Lilongwe, malaria, Malawi, new job, Nkhoma Hospital, poetry on February 24, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Nkhoma Orphan Care Project
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Hospital chaplain, Lilongwe, Malawi, Nkhoma Hospital, Orphan Care Project on January 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
New Year Update
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, Lilongwe, Malawi, Nkhoma Hospital, Prayer on January 11, 2010 | 4 Comments »
From our January 2010 Prayer Letter: We have finished our first month in Malawi at Nkhoma Hospital. There have been more deaths on the medical ward here in this first month, than in a year of my previous practice in Bellevue. This past week we have lost an HIV patient, a woman five months pregnant [...]
Christmas in Malawi
Posted in World Mission, tagged Christmas, Church of Scotland, Lilongwe, Malawi, World Mission Council on January 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Christmas in Malawi – a poem by Rebecca Soft coughing at the early morning door Festive wooden candle holders for sale MP3/Bose speakers transformed and adapted Cattle lowing at the front entrance Patient hands receiving plastic bags of sugar and soap Red candles at Santa Plaza (store in Lilongwe) Choir practice floating in the front [...]
Towards Malawi
Posted in World Mission, tagged Church of Scotland, David Livingstone, ICC, Lilongwe, Malawi on December 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
19 November 2009 : Two weeks from today we are scheduled to arrive in Lilongwe, Malawi. We fly out of Edinburgh Wednesday afternoon December 2, on KLM going through Amsterdam and Nairobi and arriving in Malawi around noon on Thursday, December 3. We finished our course work at International Christian College in Glasgow earlier this [...]
