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Director for Seeds of Soy and Joy Project Found

Jean Phiri knocked on Charlotte and Dick Day's door a few weeks ago. She had just returned from a two year commitment away from her home to direct a program where village gardens were targeted to grow soy and improve the lives of malnourished children. It was very successful. She had just come that day to visit old friends, but left with the "Seeds of Soy and Joy Proposal" in hand to read. Jean returned last week and agreed to direct the program for us this year.

The Maize harvest in Malawi is just coming in, but teaching and preparing for this project will begin soon. Planting will begin next October/November depending on when the rains start, but all the preparation and educating begins right after this harvest time. We are adding the monitoring of some malnourished children to the program too. God could not have given us someone more perfectly fitted to direct this project. Jean has her degree in agriculture and nutrition and her masters in Community Development. She has had practical experience in the field and is a mature Christian who loves the Lord. Her husband is an esteemed professor at Chancellor College and she is able to do this project before he retires and they move to the north in December. God has again been so faithful... the "seeds" are growing!

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