Cecelia arrives on our doorstep

28th February 2016:

This is Cecilia. Before 10am  we were strangers or maybe friends who had never met. We never have any idea what will come our way at any time or from any direction, while in Malawi.
Cecilia came to Mzuzu from Karmenia, about 250km away on Thursday to do an interview in St John's Hospital for acceptance into the School of Nursing after achieving excellent results inner MSCE. She was accepted and went back home, but somehow heard that there was a pair of nutters in St John of God monastery who might pay her fees in nursing school
mary did the interviewing with Br Jean Claude, found that she had no money, no phone, the wrong number for her sister in Mzuzu and only a vague idea of where she lived.
The short version is that we found her sister and she stayed  with her.
Today Monday she is working with Wells for Zoe. Our secretary Rose has taken her in. We will assertain the scale of her fees, accommodation and clothing. We will look for a sponsor or sponsors, who won't mind that her fees were paid for years ago by Norway, UK, Ireland, USA and many other countries years ago and the money was stolen. Now the money is squandered, the number of nurses training has more than halved. And the health service is worse than Ireland!!!!
Compared to wages her the fees are gigantic and no one really cares.
Systemic, endemic, structural corruption is a scary situation.