Hello everyone, so as you all know Meg's just got back from Malawi, she had such an incredible time, so what inspired you to go Meg?
I couldn't believe like Alice and Nina who run the charity, the two sisters, they've literally dedicated their life to Africa.
The idea behind LSU is just to get these children into school, give them hope, a better future.
What did you do on your first day?
On my way arrived we went to see the Tilianania orphanage and you could just see what the fundraising had offered the orphanage.
There was a seating area, there was a dining area that had a kitchen, so I think we've prepared ourselves to see a little less than that.
Some of the other orphanages we went to see during the week were very, very different.
A lot of them were really run down, 30, 40 children in one room, sitting on concrete floors most of the time.
There wasn't even a blue roll, so some of them were living in really hard conditions.
It felt like it was just a game of survival, but to them they had a very blessed life compared to some of the others.
Every time we went to any of the orphanages or any community, everyone would sing and dance for us.
One of the schools we went to visit, some of the children in that community were only being fed once every four days.
They have to walk to school and it's like six kilometres each day.
The teachers that work in the school, they're leaving at 4am to walk 10 kilometres to school.
It gets dark at 6.30pm out there, they were having to leave school then at lunchtime so that they could get home,
prepare things for the next day, because once they arrive home they've got no electricity, so they work in the dark.
The LSU have come to the school, and this is where Lucy B last year we paid for just £1,000, built this brick teacher's home,
and then they can stay at school all day, and they're now trying to introduce adult learning, so that the adults then come in the afternoon.
There's 450 children with two teachers, so they're trying to grow maize and soya just to be able to feed the children.
Next year the one hectare is extended to 10, which is amazing.
That's incredible.
Yeah, the children will grow from being fed every twice a week to every day.
They want to reach around 600 people at a time, which is amazing.
Such a difference.
A massive difference.
Ringworms, you took out a coconut, didn't you, to help with that? What was the treatment?
Ringworm is a fungus, quite similar to athlete's foot, so because Lucy B coconut oil is naturally antibacterial and antifungal,
it's going to help in some way.
And it's also moisturising, so it helps to define us.
What was the treatment?
Yeah, so there are some cases where it's completely split open the top of the scalp,
which then can get infected, pretty much covered and scabbed.
Some of them were like open runes, posse, covered in fly.
Yeah, I did one of the mums run up to you and was like, they're going to actually grab my arm and was like, please, can you help?
Baby Massage, we know it's great, but why is it so amazing for the mums to do for their children?
So Gail Berry, she is the founder of The Little Blossoms Project,
a charity within Love Support Unite.
So Gail have taught mothers all about baby massage,
but you'll see a lot of mums with their babies on their backs, but never really much eye contact.
Circulation, moving around their body, it helps promote brain function.
What was one of your most memorable moments?
During their rainy season, they all work in bare feet.
You get mountains of mud, they're sharp stone, they risk cutting their feet.
Nina, she saw the connection I had with Olly and she decided for £5 per set of wellies,
you can provide this to the team.
I was just really touched that Nina listened to me.
We gave her the money and then on the last day, Olly came up to me in the orphanage
and he grabbed me by the arm and he said,
Maggie, I need to show you something and took me into the back office
and there were a big box of booze and he was really teary-eyed
and he couldn't actually say thank you enough.
It just seemed like tiny amounts of money was saving these children.
Sometimes it's difficult to see where your money's gone.
Is it just paying for this director's trip here or five star hotel?
With LSU, I felt completely reassured.
You literally can't see where every penny's gone.
Thank you so much for everyone that's donated to LucyBee in the last couple of years.
You guys have made huge changes for those that donated baby grows.
To our first hand, I was able to give those out.
What can we do to help?
I think next year we're hoping to get some events going.
And also we've got the Amazon scheme.
Amazon Pay has a 5% commission for any item that's purchased on Amazon through this link.
So this can be anything, it doesn't have to be a LucyBee product.
And then that 5% commission we send straight to LSU.
Please, please, please try and bookmark the link.
No extra cost to you.
I think that's it from us today.
I hope you've enjoyed it and learnt a lot from Meg's incredible experience.
I keep you updated further on in the year.
And thanks for all the donations as well and people, my students, asking if they could donate.
It really means a lot.
Thank you very much.
Bye.
