It has been over a week since attending a powerful presentation by Memory Mdyetseni from Malawi, Africa called "Brick by Brick".  After a personal struggle to gain an eduction Memory and cofounder Christie Johnson started Malawi Girls on the move.  I find the mental pictures painted in my mind during Memory's presentation are still with me. When she spoke of something being hard you knew that to have gone through what she described would have been devastating. What I particularly like was the attitude regarding the students attending the school and the families supporting them. If the family or student could not afford the money to go to school then they could still contribute somehow, with her words to the effect of- No one gets in for free , If they got hands and legs then they can work either to build the school or grow food.

I am not going to go into great detail on "Malawi Girls on the Move" as more information is available at www.malawigirlsonthemove.com. 

The devastating fact is that getting accepted into this school is life or death for these girls and there are many more applicants than there are spaces available. 

The inspiration is that the girls that make it through are the seeds for change.

Randy Shipalesky