Lilongwe, Malawi … Msamba Banda is the Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors for Action for Progress, the in-country, sister organization to the Malawi Project. He lives in Lilongwe, the nation’s capital, but as with many Malawians has a tiny home in his home village, where he perhaps will retire someday. This year the […]
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Adams County, Ohio … It seems help often materializes just when it is needed. This was certainly the case after a recent trip to Malawi uncovered a desperate need in one of the hospitals. The “desperate need” part is not unusual. When working in one of the poorest nations on earth almost everything is in short
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On September 12 a news item on the website reflected the goals Dan Brewer, a board member for the Malawi Project, had set early in 2013. The goals were set quite high, but Dan had concluded if you don’t set high goals, you never challenge your full potential. ( https://www.malawiproject.org/dans-goals-in-focus/ ) With slightly more than two months
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Lebanon, Indiana … Each year since 2014 the Malawi Project has received its highest recommendation from GREAT NONPROFITS, the leading platform for community-sourced stories about nonprofits. The way it works is when a designated number of positive recommendations are submitted for a particular nonprofit before October 31 each year, that nonprofit is recognized for its
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Lilongwe, Malawi … In Malawi, rains come in late October or early November and continue nearly daily until late March or early April. Sometimes the rain comes down in torrents, making travel and work nearly impossible. River’s fill, water rushes to exit the country, and its value is quickly lost to further value. Then, after
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Its bark has a distinctive, greenish-yellow, smooth appearance. It produces a powdery substance that coats its bark and rubs off at the touch. Dangerous thorns grow to approximately 2 ½ to 3 inches and can easily puncture a shoe and reach the foot.This unique tree, known as xanthophloea, grows in low, marsh areas, along flood
“They might be brothers, or perhaps father and son, or maybe just neighbors in a nearby village. Regardless of their relationship, the view of a person carrying another reminded me of the song, “He ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother.” “As I watched them approach the row of mobility units, I knew the struggles in his past
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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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Lilongwe, Malawi … In the spring of 2022 Jan Dean, a specialist in fish farming, and Richard Stephens, of the Malawi Project (MP), traveled to the country for a fact-finding trip about fish farming possibilities. The focus was to evaluate if creating several fish farms as examples of what can be done by small-scale farmers,
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ODE TO THE ROLL Lilongwe, Malawi … In 1970 Joni Mitchell released the song, Big Yellow Taxi. In it was this refrain, “You don’t what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” I know she was not talking about what I recently experienced, but every time I think about my encounters in Malawi, I recall that song. My
