We are in District 13. We are just 2 km past Msundwe Trading Center opposite the twin communications towers. We can see both Mozembique and Zambia on a clear day.
The people in Malawi are a warm and loving people with beautiful traditional dance and big smiles.
Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world with a population of 34 million. Malawi has a population of 20 million people. Â Malawi is 1/6th the size of Alberta and 1/5 of Malawi land mass is a beautiful lake called “Lake of The Shining Stars”, or Lake Malawi. Â When the sun hits the water the sparkle of the surface of the lake is like beautiful shining stars.
Malawi is a tropical country and Malaria runs high as well as many other diseases. Aids is a recorded estimate of 12% but many people are not recorded of having aids. The Aids population is approx 15% and that is about 2.4 million people infected with HIV/Aids.
Beautiful vista appear on the horizon and those less appealing dot the countryside. Vans (mini-buses) loaded with passengers, accidents due to poor policies for transportation of goods, laundry out on the brush, beautiful mountains and brush, typical villages and a need for garbage clean-up and the contrasts go on.