Saturday 4 August 2007

SFK Malawi

We are invited to join Lucas’s SFK graduation ceremony.

Facts: In 2006, eight Malawian teachers were brought to the SFK (Spirituality for kids) Headquarters in Los Angeles for a comprehensive educational training program. These teachers have returned to Malawi and have successfully co-created a specialized empowerment program for orphans. They now offer classes to street kids living in Lilongwe. This psycho-support program provides children with the SFK curriculum as well as personalized mentorship and care (e.g., medical care, education, transportation, lodging, and other support). SFK is based on the universal spiritual principles of sharing, caring, tolerance, human dignity and proactive behavior...

Lucas is about to receive a certificate recognizing his efforts during the first level of the curriculum.

Well… Speeches, songs, speeches, dances and speeches… Malawian people really like speeches! We only guess what is going on because the whole ceremony is “said” in Chechewa. It’s a very hot day but Johanna and I are VIPs so we get to sit under a tree…

All the participants are wearing the same T-shirt; on the back it says “Tichitire anzathu zabwino ndi chikondi kuti tilandire zabwino kwa ena” which means “Let’s do good things to others with love, so that we will receive good things from others” - Rule 7, Level 1.

http://www.spiritualityforkids.org
/curriculum.htm

4 comments:

Unknown said...

A big hug from London to you girl, we're proud of you, keep up with the good work, and come back to us quick, especially as there's a good friend missing you lots :)
Take care, and see you soon,

Roxanna & Hugo

Soumountha said...

Hey, hey
big kudos for your commitment and thank you very much for sharing this experience with us. Your analysis is always interesting. I am learning a lot and you sure sound more productive than I am here at home with my hundreds of research papers covering the floor...sic. Can't wait to hear more from you.
Sx

Pacocity said...

I've got a silly question... but what do you eat when you're over there? what's the base of allimentation?

Laurence said...

Ooops j'avais mis mon commentaire tout en bas. Je ne savais pas qu'il y en avait pour chaque jour...bref voici ce que j'ai ecrit:

Salut Magali

Felicitations pour le blog, il est super et c'est vraiment bien de pouvoir te lire!

Ton travail n'a pas l'air facile mais je suis certaine que l'experience est enrichissante. J'ai hate de te revoir pour que tu nous raconte tout ca de vive voix.

Bonne continuation pour la suite et a bientot.

Bises
Laurence