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Wells for Zoe
Visit Number 50!
Just back from our 50th trip to Malawi with, a hope that we might squeeze in a few more, especially now that we get whizzed through the airports and lifted on and off the planes and everyone is so helpful. The downside is the trip North almost doubled from 5 hours due to new roadworks.
Then meeting and greeting and eating with about 20 next morning off to the Factory where the pumps are made, but where all the offices are, Research on tree and vegetable growing, an amazing creche for babies too. Then we have the Sewing Department where girls learn to make amazing clothes on old sewing machines, and also learn and research the making of re-usable sanitary pads for all our students and staff,(by the hundred) All managed and supervised by one of our Board members Eilis Butler, who is an absolute star in this Project and in daily contact, but added to this she is a superstar in her work in leading the preschool project with over 60 preschools in the middle of nowhere. What a woman and huge thanks to her husband Jim as well. She is very involved in the establishing of pre-school gardens close to the preschools.
Then upstairs to the offices, first is where the clinics are planned and organised. We have 16 clinics each month we use the hospital ambulances and pay for the fuel and 8 nurses where they take care of up to 300 women and 300 children and few men. In recent times we purchased a new scanning machine from Germany. When there are issues, we can link to the satellite and seek advice from one of our German surgeons from the wilderness and if needed bring them to a hospital.
Also, upstairs we have all the accountancy work to manage up to 2000 workers at peak periods
Wages (cash or bank transfers, then PAYE, pensions, then delivery, some loans.
Imagine all the counting and deliveries!
John and Mary Coyne
www.wellsforzoe.org
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