Indianapolis, Indiana … The news headlines seem to come at us like an ugly billboard beside a vagrant cemetery. Unemployment is up, retail sales are down, and the value of the world’s stock markets offers little reprieve from the gloom and doom that creates tonight’s lead stories. As the dismal news floods out across […]
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“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” it is said. So many people know this, but only a few know and practice what it tells us. Among the few who manage to prepare for better results is the American Tom Rich. He is the man behind the V-tractors, whose first trip to Malawi in August
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Evansville, Indiana … An appeal for pencils for the school children of Malawi was posted on the Malawi Project web site on February 2. Responding to the appeal the elders of the Oak Hill Church of Christ in Evansville, Indiana immediately presented the need to their membership for pencils for Malawi. By the end
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Tembo Family Move to Southern Region “He brings a level of specialty that we absolutely need as we begin a new ministry,” according to Mark Thiesen of the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. Mark continues, “The Malawi Project, a church-related ministry based in Indiana, has begun sending shipping containers of medical supplies that will
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Narrated by Samantha Ludick with the Clinic at the Gate in Senga Bay, Malawi: "Every second day I drive to Mukuti Village in order to pick up Ndhala and a guardian and bring him to one of my establishments where I can clean and redress his wounds. I carefully check each time to insure that
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Cholera Crisis Claims 39 Lives Outbreaks are seldom seen in the U. S. or Europe, but an outbreak of cholera is far too common in African, and other third world nations. The very word is often synonymous with "death", and it can spread at a pace that health officials find it impossible to contain.
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How Can a Student Write Without a Pencil? Some things in this world defy translation and understanding. To explain an ocean to someone who has never left the interior of a nation is quite hard to explain. Snow and ice are hard to imagine by someone who has always lived in a lower elevation
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The following is the third in the series "Painful Events Lead to Serving Another". Samantha Ludick from Senga Bay, Malawi narrates: Part I, Part II "The pain Ndhala was in was indescribable. I knew I had to get him a stronger painkiller; some type of antibiotic since I only had diclafanical and that was
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Continued from Part One The following is the second in the series "Painful Events Lead to Serving Another" and is narrated by Samatha Ludick from Senga Bay, Malawi: "I rushed Ndhala back to Salima District Hospital but he was afraid, and made me promise not to leave him alone there. I promised not leave
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Part one of a three part series Read part II When Bad Things Lead To Helping Others In August of 2008 we posted the painful story of the death of the mother of one of the employees of Cool Runnings, a small resort on Lake Malawi owned by Samantha Ludick who also conducts the Clinic
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