Dedza, Malawi … For years the Malawi Project has worked to establish programs where the spirit of self-reliance takes root, develops and independence flowers into bloom. However, there is one area where the needs of the people must take the forefront and self-reliance put on hold. This is in the critical area of health care. […]
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Scott Gordon has stepped down from the Presidency after serving this post since 2010, and the Board of Directors since 2008. He continues on the board. The presidency has passed to Bryon Bhagwandin. Bryon made his first trip to Malawi in 2012 after a number of years of growing interest in the mission objectives of
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After serving on the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors since its inception in 1999 Jim Dillinger has been forced to step down due to health issues. Jim repeatedly traveled to Malawi through his tenure and made his support known both in action and through his many trips to the country. His influence has moved to
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Far More Than Expected This is the Junior Girl Scout Troop 31816 from Medford, Oregon. For our Bronze award we had to do 20 hours of community service. We were over achievers and did 2 projects; one was making soft chew toys for the Humane Society and the other was collecting medicine bottles for Malawi.
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The Namikango Mission staff carefully removes them from the trailer, one after another, box after box, the full length of a 40-foot lorry (semi). Each box is very similar to the last and contains hope for another person, as well as for family and friends, who has faced near hopeless conditions, some since birth. The
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At the end of growing season in Malawi one can see ripening maize as far as the eye can see. This land of farmers survives from small family farm plots situated around the villages. Each family cares for a plot of maize, and smaller amounts of vegetables, potatoes, and cassava. Near the lake the diet
Chikondi Ngwira, a 23-year-old studying Mental Health at Zomba College of Health Sciences, has never owned a computer. Although her studies call for extensive research, typing, printing, and information available on the Internet, she must get in line to use the computers in the college library. “Sometimes I submit assignments late,” she admits. There are
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First world hospitals are filled with the latest technology, and these hospitals abound in every major city, and most mid-size to small towns as well. Cabinets and shelves abound with hundreds of kinds of medicine, and daily supply shipments arrive to keep them stocked for any emergency that might arise. Sadly the same is not
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Indianapolis, IN … “It was a short post on the Malawi Project Facebook site,” observes a member of the Board of Directors. “Just a simple request for readers to send empty prescription bottles, and the Project would send them to hospitals in Malawi, Africa where they are in very short supply. We expected to receive
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A VISIT TO THE MORGUE On a recent trip to Malawi a member of the Board of Directors for the Malawi Project, Mike Ferris toured a rural hospital in southern Malawi. Before leaving the hospital staff insisted he see their morgue of which they were quite proud. Reluctantly he followed them outside the hospital. After
