Just one
I'm imaging that you've asked me a question: "Alex, can you show me a picture, just one, that best sums up the week you, Ruth and Phil have had in Malawi?" Ah, that's tough! Just one? Can it be a video clip? No? OK - just one picture. I could show you Home of Hope from the air again: a whole village complete with houses, schools, a college, dorms, a hospital (that's how the government now categorizes the Home's clinic, so effective has it become), where 25 years ago there was only scrub land and just one small building at the foot of the mountain, built as a place of prayer by an early missionary - and a bereaved family ready to treat abandoned and lost children as their own. Perhaps you'd like to see the Farm again? The land lying ready to feed its children, cleared of the last harvest's stalks and set for sowing. What about the things we brought? A laptop, perhaps - bizarre in all its incongruence just kilometers from where villages stand as si...