No sleepover for Melania Trump in Malawi, visits school as part of Africa tour

October 4, 2018 Darlene Superville -Associated Press 26 Comments

United State of America  first ladyMelania Trump, on the second stop of a five-day goodwill tour of Africa,  on Thursday visited a school in Malawi, where the young children sang that they were so happy to see her.

First lady Melania Trump is greeted by Malawi first lady Gertrude Maseko and a flower girl as she arrives at Lilongwe International Airport, in Lumbadzi, Malawi, Thursday, Oct. 4, 2018. – (Carolyn Kaster/Associated Press)
Counterpart: Malawi’s first lady Gertrude Mutharika greeted Melania as she stepped off the plane
Lessons: Melania perched on the edge of a cement bench as the teacher addressed the class
Helping hand: During the language lesson, Melania Trump leaned over to help one youngster with her reading
Learning: Melania sat in on during an English language lesson, watching on as a teacher spoke to the class
Melania donated several baskets of Be Best-branded soccer balls to the school
Melania donated several baskets of Be Best-branded soccer balls to the school

She landed in the capital, Lilongwe, in the morning after a six-hour flight from Ghana. She is focusing the trip on her interest in child welfare.

The U.S first lady received a joyous welcome upon her arrival at Kamuzu International Airport, with singing and dancing by a troupe of women and scores of school children waving American  and Malawian flags.

Mrs. Trump went directly to Chipala Primary School in Lilongwe. The school receives education aid from the U.S. Agency for International Development. Malawi has received a total of 9.6 million textbooks in the past few years through a U.S.-funded national reading program.

Mrs. Trump toured several classrooms in the equivalent of second and third grade and watched teachers carry out lessons to help the young students learn English and the Chichewa language.

All the classrooms were outdoors, with the young students sitting shoulder to shoulder in rows on the loose red dirt in their blue uniforms, girls in dresses with red collars and boys in collared shirts and short pants.

The students welcomed Mrs. Trump to the school with song: “We are happy today to see you. Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome all of you. We are happy today. We are happy to see you.”

Mrs. Trump planned to visit the State House to meet over tea with Malawi’s first lady, Gertrude Mutharika. The first ladies were expected to walk through the gardens and watch a traditional dance performance.

Mrs. Trump opened her first extended solo international trip on Tuesday in Ghana. The remaining stops on her tour are Kenya and Egypt. She is expected to return to Washington, D.C. on October 7.

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26 replies on “No sleepover for Melania Trump in Malawi, visits school as part of Africa tour”

  1. A MALAWI PAJA AZUNGU ANATIUZA KUMAVALA BWINO. NCIfukwa timavala zovala zosagwilizana ndi function like kufunditsidwa umbrella ku scotland.kkkkk kuyala karpeti pa matope. u savage wina inu mhuuu

  2. This truly crap!!!! Why the students from the school were not sent to receive her!!!! Look at those at the airport???? The same Malawi????

  3. It’s shocking to hear someone backing the leadership kuti they are running this country well. The fact is thePresident doesn’t have an idea on the quick wins needed to transform this country. If he had an idea he could have been back from UNGA but alas. ..

  4. The Malawi First Lady in all flashy clothing, but look at those poor kids…..my God

    Ambuye tangolithetsani dzikoli please we are suffering to the core

  5. These pictures confirm that you are a sithole country! Where is green grass? Where are modern buildings? Dusty and dirty everywhere. You people are indeed not fully evolved from apes to humans

    1. You ignorant trailer park white trash. Just to feed your ignorant white trash mind, it doesn’t get green until the rainy season which starts next month. But what do you know about Geography! Go to the desert in Arizona and find me some green vegetation. Tell all your fellow white trash to stop coming here to steal our resources! I have seen a whole bunch of them around. Melania invited herself here and we could care less about her!

  6. Suja mumanama kuti you are running the country without foreign aid mbava inu! Afiketu ku Montfort adzaone ana a special needs mmene akuvutikira kusowa ma hearing aid.. Asangobwelera ku Lilongweko.

  8. 54 years of independence primary school has no proper desks in the Capital city of Malawi with so called first lady opanda manyazi kubweretsa first lady wa America kukawonetsa ubve kapena malodza ati zhukulu. This shows that we need to change lesders in this country. How long can we have schools like this?We dont need America to build us good schools. Does Mrs Luggage expect money from America to build better schools?
    This shows current leadership and government has failed the people of Malawi.
    How about the Ksmuzu International Airport kooks like not an airport to be called International Airport. There no no proper infrastructure worth an airport. Looking down from the air doesn’t seem you are lsnding at an airport. Shsme on you. We need transformative leadership to change Malawi for the better Malawi.

    1. Kamuzu Banda of MCP built it.At the time it was the best he could do but now DPP is on an expansion program go to Lilongwe and see for your self.This including expansion of road infrastructure………..

  9. What a country! Such a nicely clad first lady with her heavily impoverished subjects!

    Chiphaliwali chomwe chidzakukatentheni akhala akuchitsinkhezera moto since the year 200 B.C

  10. OUR PROFESSORS AND DOCTORS
    ARE DECORATED WITH ALL SORTS OF AWARDS /TITLES OVERSEAS BUT
    LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING ON THE GROUND ??? PATHETIC !!

    I DON’T KNOW WHAT GERTRUDE / PETER IS
    THINKING AFTER GLORIFYING HIMSELF LEFT AND RIGHT TO
    THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA ??

    THE BOTTOM LINE IS THAT MOTHER MALAWI IS STILL STRUGGLING !!
    54 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE HAS BEEN A MOCKERY / INSULT
    TO ALL OF US — PERPETRATED BY
    WICKED MINDED PEOPLE (CORRUPTION )

  11. Melania Trump is a wonderful lady she was there for the Latino migrants in the detention camps. Quiet very unassuming I wish she had spent more than sixty hours in Malawi. Her visit to Malawi is better than the tornadoes in Trump’s mouth if he visits the shithole continent. May Melania continue being Mrs Trump since she gently tones down the excesses of Donald Trump

  12. So the first Lady flew from USA to welcome Mrs. Trump? Is she going back to join APM, only to come back over the weekend? Is it any wonder civil servants have yet to receive their September salaries, if indeed they haven’t been paid?

  14. I bet my last dollar that those who were entrusted with ((USA) funds to build modern schools must have misappropriated the funds. Secondly, it must be embarrassing for the president to have these photos flashed globally and yet he had been preaching about investing in education for the youth at the just finished UNGA. Mr President….do you call this investment in education. This is like setting up these kids for failure. These kids have to be prepared to function in the 4th Industrial Revolution. These kids will grow to be excluded from the economic world. Bambo apa ndiye mwalephera

  18. You took students from private schools to greet the first lady but she came for the students in the public schools! Dont mask the poverty she came to see where aid should be due!!

  19. Welcome The first lady Mrs Trump.Thanks our First lady Madam Mutharika for a very good welcome.May you consider visiting one District Hospital and one health Centre e.g Bwaila and Likuni Hospitals.She will have a complete picture on education and Healthcare services

    2. Is she your MP or President? Why does she need to have a complete picture? She came there to showcase how much of a sithole country you are and with the pictures we’ve seen, Trump was right

    3. First accept your true status do not pretend. You can not look like those other countries In glamour.Thus Day Dreaming DDP is slowly changing the face of the country look at Parliament ,BCC stadiums roads infrastructure new universities colleges give the people time.

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