Nkopola Lodge Mangochi

... Liwonde.<br><br>We spent the next two nights camping in Chinguni Hills campsite within the National Park boundary. It was beautiful, up high on a hill with absolutely stunning scenery of the park below. We were slightly disappointed though as when we arrived the owners were talking lots about how elephants and hyenas had been trampling through the site for the last few nights but we didn't see tusk nor hair of them the whole time! We heard hyenas ...

... here for 14 years. As well as running a rehabilitation centre she spends a lot of time visiting towns in the area where she finds children with disabilities such as cleft palate and club foot and brings them back to a doctor in Arusha that she trust to perform the surgery. She's brilliant at what she does, especially the way she communicated with the Tanzanian people and understands their culture, we would have been lost on the mobile clinic without her. She took us for ...

... appreciated the Church and LifeNets side of involving ourselves with these people. We have done about 30 scholarships here, a myriad of livelihood development projects that range from honey processing, a maize mill, poultry operation, little stores, sewing and knitting ventures and more. We have helped three clinics with virtually all their medicine. We are pleased generally how the projects have been in ...

... all. The bike is a size too small for me and I earlier mentioned that it has some "problems." Like no brakes and basically being stuck in one gear. Thankfully, it's not too low a gear. Church starts at 10:30 am. The women's choir sang. It seemed like most of the adult women in the congregation participated. They all wore a similar headpiece and skirt. Bev and Collette were among the ...

... That was the early morning news that greeted us. For Church today we viewed the Festival Video from the United Church of God. We're glad that we brought our projector as it makes viewing much more effective. Scott Lockwood's sermonette was excellent. He showed through three biblical examples of Noah, Lot and Moses how God fulfils what He promises and that He does it quickly. In the afternoon we had the Seniors Luncheon ...

... Diverson leads the way. The trip will take nearly five hours. Diverson took the four in the Lockwood family in the Land Rover and our ambulance took all the luggage for our two families and some things of Diverson's...including several 30 egg trays. The people here have gone all out for us helping us with transportation. Diverson arranged alternative transportation for his family to the Lake and there were some problems with that ...