
The Distributions on day 2 were better than day1. Both involved the villagers singing us a welcome song or two and we had a nurse at the first one help explain the problem and our solution. At both sites, Sidney, our boy from the ministry of health running our distributions, had me get in front of the crowd and introduce myself. I told them I was happy to be there, that my friends from work and I raised the money to buy the nets, and that I would be photographing them to document their need and use in finding more financial support. The villagers were thankful which was great to see. There was however the usual arguing and fighting for who got their nets first etc. But that's expected. We hit another school on the way back, no mountain view at this one but probably another 1,000+ kids, and gave them 2 balls to replace the flat, lumpy, black one with no outer shell left that they were playing a game with in the field on our way in. I then had lunch with Febbie, our local save the children helper, which happened to be fried chicken and that awful nsima again. They eat with their hands here often, which is pretty annoying to me but I'm not going to go out of my way to ask for a fork to eat my rice with and make heads turn. The only good thing that it kinda reinforces handwashing, so that's a plus. Drove into Blantyre with Febbie and had coffee for the first time in 2 days. Probably haven't pulled that since the last time I was traveling on a shoestring in 3rd world which was a year ago. It reminded me of how much I need that crap so we went to their equivalent of a big grocery store, which I must say was really impressive for here, and picked up some instant coffee.