Village Life

[jaapv]

The Chief of Chipoka Village, Malawi






And rush hour...






House interior with presents; this is the only luxury this family will know for the coming year until we visit them again. We are helping them putting their children through school through Plan International. The whole village benefits from this NGO.






And this is the classroom....The most prized thing in rural Africa is education, it is the only ticket out of poverty.

[azzo]

Jaap,

Both images are very good.
Pleasing tones in the 1st and beautiful colours presented in the 2nd. The addition of the little girl on the left, makes the image even nicer. Very well captured.

Azzo

[rubenkok]

Jaap,
The pictures show poverty, poverty and more poverty
It must be a difficult live for all of them.
Great pictures though,
Ruben

[stuny]

Jaap -

Excellent series, and I'm always glad to see the children are receiving schooling -- Schooling is too lacking in too many places, and as you state, it is the only ticket out.

[hsw]

These are beautiful Jaap. The color is superb and you obviously connected with the villagers. A country in abject poverty. I spent some time with an Anglican priest studying here at our Seminary in Virginia and he had three parishes to cover, riding hours on a beat up bicycle. Amazing that even extreme poverty in Malawi cannot completely extinguish the human spirit. Thanks for bringing these to us.

Henry

[luigi bertolotti]

Nice series, Jaap; 2 and 4 are my preferred.

[jaapv]

Thank you all very much for your kind comments! Malawi - I love that country -and its beautiful people.

[fielden]

Great shots Jaap, Love the No.2 Rush Hour. The poverty is overwhelming and well captured.

[wilfredo]

Thanks for sharing these Jaap. How did you end up at this location? Are you working for an NGO? The tragedy here is that as we further move into a global economy the gap between rich and poor grows wider and wider...

Wilfredo
Benitez-Rivera Photography

[jaapv]

No, I am just what they call" a dedicated traveller to the continent" - I do have my own NGO - we provide oral surgery in a country where there are no consultants - none on 15 million inhabitants (the ratio of doctors is about one to a milion and dentists about one to three million) but this village is one that I got to know through Plan International.