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We sat around the table in the middle of the library.  It was a stifling hot afternoon and our discussion centred on the need for a fan to make the room more conducive to readers, something that the town council agreed to provide.  There were six library users, boys and girls ranging in age from [...]

Despite the long journey to get from Ottawa to Lilongwe, it is jarring to arrive in Malawi.  Travelling through the central part of the country from Lilongwe to Blantyre, I am conscious of the contrast between Ottawa’s autumn landscape and Malawi’s dry season of parched earth.  The land is almost completely deforested except for fruit trees and [...]