Category Archives: MACOHA
Back to basics
In Nkhoma, I am planning carefully for the next two months as we run up to the end of the year. We will stop working for Christmas, but will be aiming to help as many people as we can for the next two months, and hope to work flat out.
I had a busy day on [...]
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MACOHA referral session from Salima
We’ve had patients coming from near the lakeshore in Salima the whole of last week and this week. A car every day has been coming full with around 15 patients. We’ve been busy.
Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) has a team of field workers in their community based rehabilitation programme. They have spent weeks and [...]
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The big Indaba
So I started the day as normal 5am, but this time with no strange animals or creatures in the house. Even my dog Ellie had gone on her weekly walkabout for a day or maybe two. A nice coffee, a beautiful sunrise and some paperwork and emails.
At 8am we had the big staff meeting/indaba to [...]
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