They're back!

Jena giving Trumpet call for health training

Jena Wight and Tara Shupe, our two World Service Corps volunteers who helped with HealthEd Connect projects in Malawi, returned last week with tons of stories.  They stayed with 3 different host families and experienced a variety of different living conditions, including no electricity for 3 weeks.  One really fun thing they brought to Malawi was music.  Not just any kind of music.  Trumpets!  Jena is a trumpet major and managed to stash 5 trumpets in luggage to take to Malawi.  She taught trumpet lessons as well as started little performing groups.  A whole new concept for the villages!  She left the trumpets in Malawi when she returned so they could keep making music.  During the health worker training at Nkhata Bay she played the trumpet every morning as a call for classes to start.  What a fun new sound for the villages!