Sarah’s blog 26/02/24
As Changing Lives Malawi is a member of the Scotland Malawi Partnership, we get notification about various meetings and invitations to attend. Last week there were three sessions I had wanted to listen to but we had lots of germs in our house last week and a child who was off school for a couple of days.
I was really glad to have been able to attend this meeting via zoom. Topics for this meeting included;
- Malawi’s Current Food Insecurity Crisis which is impacting 4.2 million people.
- The Malawian Parliamentary Women’s Caucus.
- Human Rights in Malawi.
There were Malawian MPs, a Human Rights Commissioner and an NGO Board Member as speakers as well as members of Scottish Parliament and lots of charities and third sector representatives.
After listening to the speakers, who were extremely interesting, there was an opportunity to ask questions or make comments. I typed my comment into the text box, as did some others, and I was fortunate to be able to tell the panel about Changing Lives Malawi and the struggles that we face because we are helping such a remote community. There are no big charities feeding children in primary schools in that area. All the children we are helping to support are suffering from malnutrition.
If you’d like to hear me speak, you can skip forward to 49.30. You will hear I’m full of the cold but still speaking out for the thousands of vulnerable children in the rural far north whose voices aren’t heard. I was very thankful to have this opportunity. One day there will be enough food for everyone but until then, I will keep using opportunities like that on behalf of orphans and other vulnerable children who cannot speak up for themselves to say how hungry they are.
If you’d like to help towards feeding hungry children then please email contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com Thank you, Sarah x
