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Emma Dent's Malawi diary

2007-06-04T00:00:00+01:00

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When HSJ senior features writer Emma Dent was asked to join an Oxfam and Unison delegation to poverty-stricken Malawi, she got a lot more than she bargained. Read her day-by-day account of the trip here.

Day 1 - 'By this point I am so tired I start to feel ill and nearly pass out. Luckily, no one appears to notice'

Day 2 - 'Agriculture continues to be operated on a terrifyingly small scale, without machines or even animals to help cultivate the land'

Day 3 - 'They are singing and dancing songs warning about AIDS'

Day 4 - 'Women in various stages of pregnancy, labour and with their babies are lined up in corridors and in overflowing wards and labour rooms'

Day 5 - 'It is a deflating end to the week and calls for large Malawian gin and tonics'

Day 6 -.'A maternal mortality rate that is the third worst in the world, behind countries that until recently were or still are war zones, is frankly disgusting'

Emma Dent's feature on the trip to Malawi will be published in HSJ on 7 June.

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