I had just arrived in the newsroom to put pieces together and plan how my day would look like. My phone vibrated from the pocket. It was the receptionist calling.
I ignored the call because I had in mind that it could be a visitor who needed my attention. It has become a norm that whenever there is a visitor at the reception requiring our services, the receptionist calls my number. My phone continued ringing and I reluctantly picked it.
“There are visitors requiring your assistance, the receptionist said. I reluctantly made my way downstairs to the reception to meet the strangers. There came a mother and her 12-year-old boy.
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The mother said her son, who was in Form 1 at St Patrick’s Secondary School in Chiradzulu, was looking for tuition fees. “We have a balance of K130,000 and this term, we are also looking for K330,000, so we are asking well-wishers to help. Others told us to come here so that you may assist us by publishing the news,” the mother from Ndirande Township said.
I was moved by their situation and wrote the story which was published on Times 360 Malawi Facebook page. Upon seeing the story, a treasurer at Reach out Foundation (ROF), Jean Chilinda, contacted me and asked for details of the mother which I provided. “We have sourced funds and have made part payments of the school fees.
We have committed to pay for his school fees and other needs until he finishes his education,” Chilinda said. The foundation is one of many organisations and individuals who have been responding swiftly whenever we publish a story of someone looking for support.
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