British Medical Team Arrives in Senga Bay Salima, Malawi … During the past year the Malawi Project has sent a sizeable amount of medical supplies to assist Samatha Ludick, owner of the Cool Runnings resort. Near the entrance to this resort in Senga Bay Ludick runs the Clinic at the Gate medical first aid treatment […]
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Chewa Queen Mother Makes Request In 2006 the mother of the Paramount Chief of the Chewa Nation approached board members of the Malawi Project and requested the Project expand into Zambia. The geographical lines between the tribal borders in much of Africa do not coincide with the lines drawn during the days of
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Near the end of 2008 the final details were worked out for the shipment of medicine to Malawi with a wholesale value of over $4 million dollars. The shipment includes medicine from Spain, Germany and Italy and will be assigned to the Dzidaure Community Development Agency in Dedza, Malawi. The Dzidaure group is overseeing a
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Mission Awaits First Shipment of Supplies Board members of the Malawi Project conducted a site evaluation of the Namikango Maternity Hospital, and the adjoining land and buildings in Thondwe in August 2008. Subsequent discussions centered on the location near Zomba, the former colonial capital of Malawi, becoming a second site in the southern region for
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They Are Worlds Apart Betty Liles lives in the western part of the U.S. in the state of Colorado, on a sprawling ranch. Moster Kanyinji lives in northern Malawi, Africa in a region populated by mud huts with thatch roofs, almost no running water, and few mechanized vehicles. The two have never met, and
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Media Covers the Arrival A reporter and photographer from the Malawi News Service, the assistant district health officer, all of the top officials from the Kachere Orthopedic Hospital, the Chief Medical Director from Queen Elizabeth Hospital and two of the board members from the Malawi Project gathered early behind the orthopedic hospital where the 40-foot
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Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi … We tiptoed into the hospital room of the men’s surgical ward at the Zomba Central Hospital in southern Malawi. It had been less than a week since Kasonga, a minister and teacher at the Leadership Training School in Mponela had been in an extremely serious accident. He was
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Blantyre, Malawi … "As we sat and talked the hospital administrator seemed not to notice what was obvious to us." Probably he had been looking at them for so long this way they almost looked normal. Or perhaps it was because he could do little about it that he seemed not to notice.
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If Birds Could Talk Thondwe, Malawi … If birds could talk perhaps they would be commenting on the beautiful new roof that has been completed on the Namikango Maternity Hospital just east of the Thondwe Trading Center in Malawi Central Africa. The facility sits on the north side of the road between Zomba and
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Dedza, Malawi … Our group was up to 20 and we were headed for a meeting that was described as "just near." After about 30 miles on a dusty, pot-holed bush road I asked the man beside me who in the world they could think the meeting was "just near". He explained it this way.
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