Teachers in Malawi, and many other emerging nations, face problems unseen and unimaginable in western classrooms. Every day thousands of children try to learn without the necessary resources. There are few libraries, classrooms are overcrowded, and there are not enough trained teachers, support staff, and administrative personnel. It is not uncommon to see classrooms with […]
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The chalkboard sign sits outside a brick school structure just a few yards east of the Mozambique border. This is Chewa for “Church of Christ”, and this sign and the congregation meeting inside the building was not here seven months ago. It is the results of the work on Priestly Nkhonjera, the administrator and the
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Nsipi School, Malawi … She had seen pictures of excitement, and the early stories about the distribution of the textbooks. Brielle Read, a teenager from Austin, Texas spent a lot of time working on her Girl Scout project that resulted in 33,000 school textbooks being sent to Malawi. Her family lived and breathed textbooks for
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Dedza, Malawi … It is Saturday night at the trading center at Dedza, and a few blocks north of the main street, the students from the Malawi International Bible Institute (MIBI) are enjoying a celebration. The evening has been organized by Suzi Stephens, Medical Director for the Malawi Project, and includes the students in the
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In 2001 Lauren Armanino, a 15-year-old California high school student watched a TV program about vision problems in Africa. She was determined to help solve the problem that she was seeing, and so, with the help of her family, Lauren started “Eyes Around the World” (EATW), a program where used eyeglasses were gathered and shipped
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Dedza, Malawi … Students look the same around the world. Studious, focused, attentive and committed. The picture shows the first students at the new MIBI campus in Dedza, Malawi. The school got underway a few weeks ago after Priestly Nkhonjera completed his training to be the school administrator of the new school. For two years
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Katamba Primary School, Zomba, Malawi … It is estimated world-wide there are 215 million children trapped in child labor, and 115 million in hazardous work including, slavery, armed conflict, drug-trafficking and other illegal activities. The world community recently observed World International Labor Day, and used this time to highlight the plight of child workers, and
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Trip to a Game Park The driver suddenly turns right, bounces off the dirt road, and into 4-foot high African bush. A little way in he cuts the engine, and the sound of the savannah intrudes into our senses. Before we had been hearing only the sound of our guide, the crackle of his old
“Madam I know that it is your day off but please would you be kind to see the ladies at the beach gate, they have a sad story. ” I can see from my khondi that there are two ladies, and a child hiding behind them. I agree to see the ladies. They walk in
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Ntcheu, Malawi … Education is believed to be a key to unlocking the future of all human being. Children are advised from early age to take education seriously, and that if they miss the opportunity to be educated, they will be at the tail end of all people economically. It is not surprising, to see
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