{"id":96,"date":"2009-03-23T12:01:23","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2009-03-23T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T10:01:23","slug":"malawi-feb-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/malawi-feb-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi: Feb. 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a family I&#8217;ve been involved with for a couple of years now in Malawi. The father, Philip, died a few months ago. If you dig around on my blog or ask me, I can point to some background information.<\/p>\n<p>This year the priority is food. It always is in Malawi. The price of fertilizer has gone up almost 3 times from last year and cost around 90 USD a bag. That is a total insult to the masses of farmers out in the country who rarely see cash. The majority has never seen 90 USD at one time. It takes about 8 bags to cover a field large enough to supply a family with food.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the difference. The corn (maize) on the left is a field that belongs to the family I am helping. The corn to the right, to someone else in the hamlet who couldn&#8217;t afford fertilizer:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/lightroom\/zomba02-2009\/content\/bin\/images\/large\/_DSC2785.jpg\" alt=\"With and without fertilizer\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dorte said one thing to me in English: &#8220;blankets&#8221;. And this is when she said it:<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/lightroom\/zomba02-2009\/content\/bin\/images\/large\/_DSC2839.jpg\" alt=\"Blankets\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The cold season is coming and sleeping on the earth can be very, very cold.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s some more pictures here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dlridings.se\/lightroom\/zomba02-2009\/\">Feb. 2009<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a family I&#8217;ve been involved with for a couple of years now in Malawi. The father, Philip, died a few months ago. If you dig around on my blog or ask me, I can point to some background information. This year the priority is food. It always is in Malawi. The price of fertilizer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,108,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/97"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dlridings.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}