Obtaining A Mini Bus Passport Because so few people in Malawi can afford to own or operate a motor vehicle the chief means of getting around is by minibus. Minibuses are notorious for being junkyards in motion, and mini bus drivers often appear to be accidents looking for a place to happen. Add to […]
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Tuberculosis in Malawi Malawi has declared tuberculosis a national emergency. Currently over 27,500 people are being diagnosed with the disease every year, but this figure is estimated to be only 50% of all cases in the country. The USAID estimates the total number of new cases each year to be 52,000. The Malawi Ministry of
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It Has Been Called “The Eton of Africa” The late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda founded the Kamuzu Academy in November 1981. The school has been recognized as an elite facility bringing academic excellence to a highly motivated and skilled student body. The school is located in the Kasungu District of Malawi and occupies a large
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State of the Nation – Two Giants have been Struck Down 1st tree pictured on right – This giant Baobab tree fell across the main highway M-14 from Salima to Lilongwe during the rainy season of 2007. It was located 2 kilometers west of the Nkotakota – Salima intersection, and situated on the south
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A recent distribution of quilts and blankets, made in America, brought smiles, warm feelings and expressions of appreciation from a number of new mothers at the Lumbadzi Health Care Center north of the capital city of Lilongwe. The blankets were gifts from individuals and organizations in America that consistently make and send the quilts to
Highway M-1 from Blantyre to Lilongwe is long, straight and by African standards a good, well-marked tarmac road. Only south of the mountainous area near Dedza does the road climb into the mountains and present the traveler with some sharp, snake like curves and turns as it crosses the mountain range south and west of
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Last year’s harvest is nearing an end and the new crops are still months away. It will soon be “the time of famine” and it arrives somewhere in Malawi almost every year between January and April before the new harvest can be gathered from the fields. Aid is Shifted When Tsunami Strikes Southeast Asia
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Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach Receives a Facelift Recent assistance from the Malawi Project has helped improve the image of the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach in Salima, Malawi. In August the Project extended a grant to Mr. George Chimpiko Banda in order for him to improve the image of the offices and work area of
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Zuze Moyo – A Solitary Man in the Dowa Valley It is sometimes strange how your eyes will catch on a single person in a crowded place. Something about them gets your attention; perhaps their attractiveness, or perhaps their outgoing personality, or maybe it is simply because they are the only person directly in
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He was once a beloved soccer player in his village area of Dzoole Village. Even today he is a musician and artist. It was not always like this. Samuel Benzi has not always had to crawl on the ground like “a snake in the bush.” He is a fourth born of the seven children from
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