More Scenes from Malawi

Here is Mr Petro Shawa and some of his extended family behind their house.


This is harvest time and most of the crops have been brought in from the fields. These women are shelling groundnuts or peanuts.



There are many tearooms along the dirt roads. Usually there will be 4 heaping spoonfuls of sugar and either 4 heaping spoonfuls of powdered milk or fresh milk if available in the teas. You can also get "scones" which are those tall bread things made in a wood-fired brick oven by the owner.

These girls are washing pots at the spring. They use the sandy soil as scouring powder.

Women and girls washing dishes downstream from the spring. One of 2 sources of clean water for my village of over 900 people.

More dish washing

Here is the spring.

Kids sitting in the yard shelling beans.