Friday night we had a fire at the nursery. Luckily a night watchman spotted the smoke early, and all the kids and staff got out of the building in time. Unfortunately however the nursery is completely destroyed. Not surprisingly, there is no fire department here in Mangochi; the efforts made to fight the fire with the recources available were not enough.
All day yesterday MCV staff emptied out the two guest houses, to make a new home for the infants. The guest houses were being used as our administration office, and girls dormitory. Both the girls and office staff moved into unused classrooms at the school for the time being.
Two babies are in the hospital for smoke inhalation, but otherwise there was no physical harm to anyone as a result of the fire. We're still not sure what started the fire.
I'll try to give more details later this week.
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