One runs short of words to describe the enthusiasm of a group of people who has just been taken by surprise with receiving something they never expected.
The Malawi Project team has supplied Sacred Promise Clinic with medicine ranging from anti-malaria drugs to antibiotics. The drugs come just in time, since there is a religious meeting going on in our vicinity, and a number of the people are ill. I grab this opportunity to meet the needs of local people who cannot afford the cost of the medications, let alone having the medicines availability.
A student team comes to help dispense the medicines. You can hardly believe it, there are people lining up just for the opportunity of being attended to. The medicines are not just given without any assessment. The students are already trained, or are in training to become medical assistants or nursing students.
To these students, this is an opportunity to put into practice what they have learned in the classroom. To the people who come, the availability of medicine is like a pool of clear, cold water on a sun-parched desert. Everyone is pressing in for his or her turn. ‘Who has been moved by the Spirit of God to think of us, and supply us with medicines?’ It is a question lingering on the hearts of most of the people.
Lines of people wait their turn for pills. Others have their wounds attended to, while most squeeze in close and tight trying to get to the antibiotics, multivitamin tablets, and analgesics. Equipment and medicines are a rare commodity, and when they are made available it is worth pressing in tight in order to get your turn.
Your helping hands, though far away, are moving souls and touching the needy. Thank you Malawi Project Team.
Report by Dr. Smith Chibaka, Sacred Promise Clinic