February 2015 A Plan
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