Missionaries of Charity Orphanage - Kawale

I bought provision for the children of ; Sobo, rice, Maize meal, tea, sweets etc.. Photos of some of the children.  This was also the first time for our driver, Mr. Lewis to visit an orphanage. Baby Talandira in my arm.

Missionaries of Charity Orphanage - Kawale

Baby on my back is a sad victim of maternal death. Baby Talandira, means "We have received". Mother, a young woman of 20 years or less died following complications post delivery. Father, of 22 years old brought her to the orphanage to be cared for. Time of photo only 2 weeks old.

Missionaries of Charity Orphanage - Kawale

Amayi Charity introduced me to this wonderful orphanage in Lilongwe

A Personal Project 'Kawale Orphans' - Photos

Missionaries of Charity Orphanage - Kawale

A Mother Teresa Orphanage

Poem "Child of mine"

Child of mine how I love you

How I miss you

Not a day passes by when I don’t think of you;

Your smile; your laughter; your cry; your sad moments and even your angry flashes I miss them all.

How I wish I can have such moments again, to see you smile, laugh, share a joke or two with you, telling a story, the many stories we often told each other.The questions you always ask the whys?

Child of mine, how I miss you

Oh, why!  Oh why! Did you have to go, so abruptly, not a word, no goodbyes said. Taken in such haste from me;

Was I not a good mother to you, did I not love you enough? These are questions I ask myself.   I know I was, I loved you so much and still do even more than ever.

I remember the day you were born as though it was yesterday, a happy time; the first time I held you in my arms;

The first time I placed you on my breast;

Your first cry; your first laugh, your first word; your first step; your first fall your first anxious moment and your first day at school.

I remember them all

How I miss you, all I have of you now are just memories, which I hang on to, to comfort me and take away the pain I feel in my heart.

Broken hearts can be mended, tears will stop, but you will always be my precious gem, a beloved child never to be forgotten.

I thank God for giving you to me and for the time I have had with you, to nurture you.

I release you to the Almighty God. Go in peace and find rest in the bosom of God, child of mine.

Dedicated to all parents who have lost a child (ren)

By Catherine Sekwalor

October 2012

Malamulo

College library, desparately needed nursing and medical journals for the students. The newest journel dated 2010.  Any doctors and nurses out there reading my blog please, if possible send us up-to-date journal.

Contact: catherine.sekwalor@nmcm.org.mw
sekwalor.catherine@gmail.com

Much appreciated.

Photos of visit to Thyolo, Malamulo College of Health Science

My visit: Visited Shani @ her placement of Malamulo College of Health Science. Photos of the amazing Malamulo landscape, Campus and of course the children. It rained the whole day, still managed to go for a long walk around the village.