On 11th of July we did our community welcome in Malindi. As we arrived on late evening on 9th so we had only one day to prepare for community welcome. So we divided the work among the volunteers, some volunteers did the flip charts for volunteer placements, some for GCD's CAD's that we did in Glasgow while some decided to decorate the community hall for community welcome, everything was sorted out & everyone worked as a group & that helped us a lot doing lots of work in short time. The flipcharts & other stationary was provided by Malindi Education & Development Association ( MEDA ).
On the morning of 11 every volunteer headed for community welcome, we had posted all flipcharts i the c0mmunity hall for people to see what v did in Glasgow. The community welcome was started with recitation of verses from Quran which followed by speech done by Mr.Baruwa CEO of MEDA, also there were speeches done by different chair persons from different organizations working in Malindi. After speeches there was brief introduction of Global Xchange was done Programme supervisors as well as volunteers, the audience in the community hall were really excited to hear about GX & they were looking forward to work wit us, the audience consisted of people from MEDA ,host homes, people from volunteer placements & people from all walks of life. At 1 in noon there was lunch provided for everyone, which followed by cultural plays & dancing.
Overall we received a very warm welcome ( karibu ) by people of Malindi and everyone is very excited to live & work in Malindi & INSHALLAH we all had a very good time being here.
ASANTAE :)
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