While we were waiting anxiously for the FM transmitter to go through customs, Shaba Killion also visited villages around Kasungu. He was in one village and sent me via Telgram some photos and a video of an elderly woman who can no longer walk.
I spontaneously decided that I would send a wheelchair to this woman. I asked around who had a wheelchair left, but did not find anything. So I looked on Ebay and found a wheelchair in Schramberg in Black Forest for 50 €.
Now I had to sort out the shipping, organize a box and send it off. Finally I had everything together and sent it with DHL directly to Kasungu, to Shaba Killion. The box with the wheelchair, a donation declaration and proforma invoice arrived quite quickly in Malawi. It went through customs without any problems. However, I would not have dreamed that it would become such a thing.
I don't know exactly when, maybe a day or two later, the wheelchair was brought to the village of the elderly woman.
The whole village was there, the village elder or headman. Even the radio reported that the chair is handed over.
What a joy. I felt less like a hero of the day than ashamed. The wheelchair cost me 50 euros, shipping 130 euros. In a video that I could not upload because it is too big, it is clear that there are no wheelchairs in Malawi. Not in the hospitals, not in the churches. We take it all for granted (still) and there is a shortage in Malawi. Now I would like to send a load of wheelchairs to Malawi. A hundred would be good. Shaba said this would make a difference.
