Monday, January 23, 2012

Learnings from Malawi

We spent the day in the capital city today, Lilongwe, and the Malawian Central Credit Union, MUSCCO.  We've learnt some very important things today about Malawi and I wanted to share some of those with you......

recycling - the average newspaper in Malawi is read 17 times! Wow! I wonder what this is in Canada.....I can't help but think it is probably one...

identification - they have no national identification system - this means that there is no way to identify an individual and more importantly there is no way to prevent them from opening multiple accounts in different financial institutions under different names......a potential huge fraud issue for them

and most importantly......

beer - the local beer "Kuche Kuche" pronounced koochie kocchie is the best beer in Malawi.....but I still burst out laughing everytime I order one! hahaha.....


Street vendors in the Malawi countryside selling maise
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 24, 2012 at 7:35 PM

    Hi Heidi, could you please post more pictures? Is it expensive to call overseas? Do you have an Internet access in the hotel? Do you like local food?

    Thank you,
    Leon

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  2. MichelleJanuary 24, 2012 at 7:38 PM

    So is the reason they do not have a national ID system because of the cost? I can imagine it would cost millions of dollars for them to get a system like that but in turn imagine the # of jobs it would create for the people :) That is a interesting fact.

    Kuche Kuche ... HA HA .. that's something we say here when we're tickling someone. Well at least I do .. anyhow TMI (too much information) ha ha. Enjoy your day and hope you start to feel less dizzy soon.

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