Thu 23 June 2016

I had a really enjoyable time with the lions this morning, and have posted some photos below.

This afternoon Yanni and I went to an adult literacy class.  It took us almost an hour to reach a school in a very remote area. A village of sorts has been erected, and the main occupation of the adults is subsistence farming.  It was easy to see that the villagers were extremely poor and lived very hard lives.  There were about 20 adults aged between 30-60, and they were learning basic reading and writing in Chichewa, and basic numbers.  They did exercises on the blackboard, filling in missing numbers in a sequence, then some basic adding, taking away, multiplication and division. The women seemed keen to take part, and would often stand at the board working the sums out on their fingers.  Every single one of them got the right answer, and they were delighted with this too.  At the end of the afternoon they all stood up and sang a thank you to us, which was very touching.  I have added some photos, and will try to attach a video so you can see it for yourself.