OUR PRESIDENT ELECT PUTS THE IDEA TO CLUB AND I HATCH A PLAN.
I’ve never done VSO, this might be my chance to do a mini version. My New Year’s resolution is to do things now rather than wait until I retire.
I contact Gordon from Friends of Sick Children in Malawi to explore whether it is feasible. I’m a pharmacist so my plan is to help in the dispensary of the hospital pharmacy. My luggage allowance is 2 x 23kg plus 12kg for cabin so maybe I could use some of it to take supplies out.
He puts me in touch with various people in Blantyre at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital and the Nursing School. Email doesn’t seem to be easy; I either get a reply straight away or not at all. It’s not helped by emails disappearing into my spam box, which I didn’t know existed – husband gets impatient with my lack of IT skills.
The vote is unanimously in favour when Elaine asks club about putting our Malawi project to reduce child mortality forward for the SIGBI Federation Quadrennial project. A group is formed to work on the bid, I volunteer. We all feel passionate about this as it fits so well with Soroptimist goals.
I do feel rather guilty as I haven’t told Elaine about my plans but I want to wait until things are firmer.