These beautifully patterned and coloured chitenge flags, have been handmade by a local tailor in Mfuwe, named Esnart, supporting fair trade and the surrounding community.
To celebrate the union of young global conservationists and Tisamale Part one, MATZ, Conservation Club students and staff participated in a opening and closing ceremony. Opening ceremony saw the blossoming of new relationships and foreshadowed the exciting 3-week journey that was to come. Students and staff chose a patterned flag that best represented themselves, wrote their name in the middle and a personal quality they bring to Tisamale. Closing ceremony celebrated the life- long friendships and global connections that had been made between staff and students, over the previous 3 weeks. Students and staff added a final word to their flags, what Tisamale Part one meant to them.
These flags have been hung and are flying high at the Chipembele offices and will continue to fly until April 2019, when the exchange continues…

Lana Morro ( MATZ, 2018)