Thondwe, Malawi …Located in southeastern Malawi, the Namikango Maternity Clinic opened in 1975 in response to the need for maternal health care for a coverage area of over 51,721 people. Today, the center helps deliver as many as 95 babies a month, and in 2011 provided maternal health care for 1,626 pregnant women. Symon J. […]
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Another Self Sustaining Program Salima, Malawi …The success of the Malawi Project to procure needed supplies, and to distribute them throughout Malawi has been a great success story. Governments, corporations, small businesses, not for profit organizations, churches and innumerable individuals have come together to make it happen. When these shipments reach Malawi, with hardships unrecognizable
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Working with the Malawi Project in the U.S. and the Namikango Mission and Maternity Clinic in Malawi, two Canadian groups have supplied Bibles, Commentaries and other religious material to Malawi. Universal Aide and Compassionate Warehouse in British Columbia, Canada recently sent a 20-foot trailer filled with thousands of books for Bible students, church leaders, and
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Dedza, Malawi … Funding made available through a major contributor has resulted in the construction of a new maize mill for the people in the Lintipi area of Malawi. The mill is located north of the Dedza Trading Center, and west of Highway M-1, in a remote mountainous area of Malawi. It is part of
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Indianapolis, Indiana … News filtered out of Malawi mid-day Thursday indicating 78-year-old Bingu wa Mutharika had suffered a heart attack, and was rushed to Kamuzu Central Hospital for treatment. Reports and rumors became confusing as some sources indicated he was critically ill, but being flown to South Africa for treatment, while others reported he had
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Most citizens of Malawi receive little more than three years of formal education. Students can only hope to remember the content; the only person with a textbook is a teacher, and classes can have anywhere from 75 to 200 students per teacher. But, it doesn’t have to be that way; Recently, Brielle, a teenager working
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Salima, Malawi … Along the road to the lake, just east of Salima, a small group of buildings are being completed. A number of people with physical disabilities are tilling the land, and the resulting crops are assisting to make them self-reliant. The program is part of the effort by George Banda, and Kuthandiza Osayenda
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The United Nations estimates there are over 16 million children under 18 that have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide. Many live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi many of these children live in child headed households, or stay with (often elderly) relatives who can do little to care for them. The crisis is critical, and yet
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The scale of the orphan crisis in Malawi and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa is somewhat masked by the time lag between when parents become infected and when they die. As adults continue to die from AIDS over the next decade, an increasing number of orphans have and will continue to grow up without parental
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The long dark and deadly shadow of HIV/AIDS extends well beyond those who test positive for the virus. It encompasses a large number of people who never face the deadly outcome of the disease directly. David, an 18 year old firstborn son in a family of five, lives in the shadow of HIV and AIDS.
