Born on the 27th of December 1979 Wilson would be the 6th, and last boy, of 7 children in his family. Home was a farm on the eastern edge of the Kasungu National Park in Malawi, Central Africa. In 1983, a year after the birth of Wilson’s youngest sister, the family moved to his father’s village in […]
In 2018 Tembo spearheaded the establishment of Action for Progress, a Malawi not-for-profit, created to work beside the Malawi Project in aid assistance programs throughout the country. Currently, he serves as the Executive Director for the new group, after nearly 20 years of working with the Malawi Project.
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Thondwe, Malawi … Wilson Tembo, Warehouse Officer for the Malawi Project recently returned from a 3,700-mile (9,247.1 km) trip across Africa to Freetown, Sierra Leone. The trip was sponsored by World Emergency Relief, and Kinder Kanker Genezing (KKG) it’s sister organization in Germany. Both organizations are major contributors to Malawi Project program sites. The trip focused
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Tembo Family Move to Southern Region “He brings a level of specialty that we absolutely need as we begin a new ministry,” according to Mark Thiesen of the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. Mark continues, “The Malawi Project, a church-related ministry based in Indiana, has begun sending shipping containers of medical supplies that will
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Lilongwe, Malawi … It’s Saturday and in some many parts of the world teens are getting into trouble. No so with this group from the Area 47 church in Lilongwe. They are spending their day sorting clothes at the Action for Progress distribution center to be distributed to the poor. AfP received the clothes along
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Fire Sticks The world has been chopping down 10 million hectares of trees each year to make space to grow crops and livestock, and to produce materials such as paper. This accounts for about 16% of total tree loss cover. 96% of deforestation takes place in tropical forests. Malawi, and much of central Africa, is
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Mponela, Malawi …One week after disastrous flooding washed away homes and lives east of the Mponela Trading Center, Action for Progress and local officials completed an evaluation of how many families needed emergency assistance and began aid distribution. Assistance has been quick and efficient for 42 households near the Kasangadzi River, listed as one of
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Lilongwe, Malawi … After several delays, due to cost increases, and other projects taking a high priority, contributors have stepped forward and made it possible to begin construction of a protective wall around the Action for Progress distribution center west of Lilongwe. A minor break-in just after the warehouse was constructed took place, and Wilson
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Mchinji District, Malawi … When one loses their home, business, possessions, and livelihood to a natural catastrophe such as Cyclone Freddy, people often do not notice, or in the pain of loss overlook, what has happened to those with mobility issues. For many, this is what happened in March of this year when the longest-running
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Kabudula Community Hospital, Lilongwe District, Malawi … For expectant mothers in Malawi the required items they must bring to the hospital at the time of their delivery can be out of reach to locate or even purchase. The Action for Progress and Malawi Project teams had arrived that morning to donate the supplies that expectant
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