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September 2015 – Bright ideas and Blantyre Cots

If you want something doing ask a busy woman.   Dr Queen Dube, takes time to introduce us to the Director of Queens, Dr Goonani, and embarrasses me by telling him about all the projects SI Kenilworth have supported through Friends of Sick Children in

September 2015 – Pharmacy in the New Age

It’s official, I’m old!  I give a lecture to the final year Pharmacy students on ‘safe prescribing for geriatrics ‘ – in their opinion anyone over fifty is old, and by sixty is elderly (so that’ll be me next year).   Given that the average

September 2015 – Lake Malawi aka Calendar Lake

Are you ready for that question when Dave writes his quiz?! He clearly didn’t feel that he’d seen quite enough birds at Liwonde so we drive further North to Lake Malawi.  We only get a bit lost getting out of the Game Reserve and don’t

September 2015 – All work and no play‏

Whilst I swan off to meet SI Blantyre, Dave is brilliant and spent hours in a hot, ill lit, dusty store room, sorting through the medicines donated specifically to the Children’s Hospital. He definitely deserves a reward! He books us into a safari lodge for

September 2015 – Sisterhood‏

Happily I am able meet up with six members of SI Blantyre and attend their business meeting. Just like my club, they are a lively and opinionated bunch of ladies, keen to make a difference to the lives of women and children in Malawi. Judith

Little girl with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair made in Blantyre Malawi

September 2015 – Kids to go!‏

As I said in my previous blog, the amazing Robster and his team are funded by Friends of Sick Children to make wheelchairs specifically for children.  He truly is the Father of Invention! With the most basic of equipment and supplies, together with the odd

September 2015 – Little Jack Horner‏

                Today we witnessed a small miracle courtesy of a fantastic man called Robster. He and his team make wheelchairs and fit corner chairs for children, funded by Friends of Sick Children in Malawi. A mum brought in

September 2015 – stepping back in time

Pharmacy is a new profession in Malawi, it celebrates its tenth anniversary next year when 8 students started their course here at the University of Blantyre. Unsurprisingly it has a long way to go but the students I’ve met and the interns (pre-registration students) are