As mentioned in earlier posts, each weekday during "Hunger Season," which stretches from November through April each year in Malawi, hundreds of mothers and children from dozens of rural villages in central and southern Malawi gather in the early morning light to attend a once a week, or in some areas, every-other-week nutrition clinic.
By 6:00 AM, informal lines and small discussion clusters form as mothers and children await the arrival of the Project's team of nurses, student doctors, and volunteers.
Despite what may be a long, long walk, often in the dark, typically with bare feet across uneven, rocky trails and rough dirt paths, young, middle age, and older women come together with a common emotion - hope.
The rich emotions in the eyes and faces of many mothers linger in my memory.
There is strength and purpose in their spirit.
They often express a sense of quiet kindness, an openness, and a depth of patience that generally eludes our daily experience in "more developed" regions of world.
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