The Chicken of the Sea

"This morning we got off to an early start. Christopher joined us on an excursion to Lilongwe. To Molly’s delight, Christopher brought a friend…a smelly friend…a loud, flapping friend. That’s right…a living chicken “sample” to persuade restaurant owners that MCBO chickens are plump and healthy. Today, our main priority was finding a home for 230 chickens. We had two successful visits to a hotel and a local restaurant. We await confirmation phone calls tomorrow, but both owners seemed confident that they were interested in buying the whole lot of chicks.


While in Lilongwe, we also ran a few other errands. We stopped by the hospital to pick up a few thousand male and female condoms. We also made a visit to the vet because some of our chickens have fallen ill; he provided us with some medicine. Lastly, we headed over to the Ministry of Education’s office to hand deliver an invitation to MCBO’s Distribution Day next friday. Distribution Day is a community-wide event where the volunteers at MCBO will hand out school supplies and clothing (all donated by Goods4Good) to school children and OVCs in the community. The guest list includes: the Minister and Secretary of Education, 10 student reps and 2 teacher reps from 7 of the neighboring schools, 46 village headmen and their favorite of their often, many wives, MBC TV, and the most special of all, Cheryl Levitt. You read correctly…Mama Levitt is gracing MCBO with her presence in ten days!

The remainder of our day was filled with a long executive meeting and a fight amongst travel companions over canned tuna. If Darren used silverware, maybe this debacle could have been avoided. We are finally friends again, but Darren is not permitted in arms distance from Molly until the tuna has had 24 hours to remove itself through whatever bodily excretions are necessary."