Police officer feeds Kasungu families
About 100 families in the area of Sub-Traditional Authority (ST/A) Chitanthamapiri in Kasungu have benefitted from a donation of maize from Lilongwe-based police officer Sapulain Chitonde Lee.
He donated the maize with assistance from teachers at St Peter’s High School in England where he studied. Each family received 25 kilogrammes (kgs).
Lee and the St Peter’s High School community targeted people living with HIV, the elderly, guardians of orphans and orphaned children suffering food shortages ravaging many parts of the country.
In an interview on Wednesday, Lee said Tom and Ben Hunt and fellow teachers at St Peter’s High School raised the money to purchase the maize.
The donation is the latest benefit of the relationship Lee has cultivated between people of ST/A Chitanthamapiri and St Peter’s as different groups from England have been offering free medical support, providing mosquito nets to 250 families, building and renovating local churches and distributing water purification kits as the area faces sanitation problems.
“My relationship with these British families started a long time ago when I was offered a chance to study at St Peter’s High School in 2007. When I was returning to Malawi, the families asked me the assistance I needed and I asked that they help me renovate Chaziya Primary School which was built in the 1960s.
“It is now wearing a new face following a K15 million (about $23 400) donation. The food assistance is the latest show of love and commitment that the British families have for the people of ST/A,” he said.
ST/A Chitanthamapiri said people were grateful for the timely donation as they are still reeling from the poor harvest of last season. n
