AROUND AWTWhat is Around AWT? |
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Around AWT is a small project that deals with stories connected to Africa Wild Truck.
Africa that we experience is made up with many small stories. We listened to many stories
and we think that some are worthy of special attention.
Around AWT?s purpose is to give space to stories that we have picked up here in Africa
during our expeditions and Africa Wild Truck's travels.
The common thread of these stories is their simplicity and spontaneity
To focus our attention and commitment on a small and accessible scale is our inspiration.
Margareth, a dress-maker for Chitipi
Margareth lives in Chitipi, a suburb of Lilongwe in Malawi. She is Elson's wife. We know
him because he has recently joined the staff at Africa Wild Truck base camp in Malawi.
She sometimes helps him in his job or in domestic duties and she is a housewife.
Training is essential to find a job. Quaifications make a difference when you look for a job.
Two salaries are better than one; life can be less harsh. This is why she decided to enroll
into "Maligunde Training school" to become a dress-maker, a useful profession in Chitipi.
At the school she will also improve her English so that she will be able to sell her work to
foreign visitors in Malawi.
"My name is Margereth, I was born in Nsanje, in Southern Malawi, in 1980. I married in 2004 to Elson and at the moment we do not have children. I?m the oldest of six children; my father was a maize, tea and beans farmer and my mother helped him in the fields. After primary school I had to interrupt my education because my father died suddenly. Today I am an housewife withouth a job, unfortunately. I would really like to learn how to sow, painting and work with textiles and making things with my own hands so that I can become economically independent. The only problem is that I do not have enough money to enroll at the school".
Since Margareth had to interrupt her studies because of her father?s death going to this
school will provide her with a skill. Despite Margareth having looked for a job so that she
can pay for the school, she was unsucessuful and without outside help her dream will
never come true.
Africa Wild Truck paid for the first month of studies for Margareth and accompanied her on
the fist day of school.
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