Saturday, November 27, 2010

Malaikha

An Austrian friend here is impressively and passionately trying to establish and build a school for local blind children in Mazabuka. So far progress has been slow, particularly frustrations with local bureaucracy which gobbles up what limited funding she has allocated to the school. Therefore, on Saturday her organisation held a fundraising event for the school. In the afternoon there was dancing and singing (plenty of miming too), and a fairly well know singer in these parts – Slap D – performed; the girls seemed to know and enjoy his songs. But the main event was the Miss Malaikha (beauty) contest. Lucia, an Italian volunteer here in Maz, gamely agreed to take part along with 9 other local girls who took the contest very seriously indeed; apparently they had been rehearsing for weeks whilst Lucia was a lot less serious. It was all very entertaining, especially as some of the contestants were very attractive.

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