The Cooking Fires Burn Close to the Houses Those early morning hours will remain unforgettable in Mackson’s life. As always he went to play in the neighborhood with the other children. But this day would not be like other days and unfortunately he was caught up in an accident when a pot of boiling […]
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Car Could Not Stop as Mavuto Crossed the Road Mavuto Chifumbi lives in Makwani Village in the area of Traditional Tribal Authority Chief Mponela in the Dowa District of central Malawi, Africa. He is not sure about his age, but is probably in his early fifties. Mavuto was born with both legs, and
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Spring arrives and the earth shows its renewal in the Northern Hemisphere. The news in America focuses on the approaching Presidential elections and on the state of the economy, which seems to be hitting a speed bump on the high-speed expressway into the future. The Economy! Some people are saying things are not good. Others
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Both Father and Mother Are Dead A sudden, emergency trip to the lakeshore trading center of Nkhotokota resulted in three children from a family of 12 coming to Mtendere for care. The father and mother had both died, and her older sister had to get a job in order to attempt to care for
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They Are Very Small, and Very Deadly You may not get a correct picture of how terrible a mosquito can be until you get bitten by an infected mosquito and go through a process of having a malaria attack. Lack of immediate help may lead you to a premature death. It is unfortunate that these
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A trailer of library books has reached Salima, Malawi from contributors in Canada, through the efforts of Universal Aid and the Malawi Project. At the same time the new community library constructed through funding from the Malawi Project, as well as from other supporters and members of the Malawi Paratroop Battalion based in Senga Bay
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“The beggars wanted to use her for their own benefits,” reported Moses Khombe, the Communication Director for Blessings Hospital when young Lekelina was brought to the village from the Minister of Gender for Malawi. If that was not enough he added more to the report. “The girl might have been abused by this so
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Early on Sunday morning we learned some of the staff had made a rushed trip to the lakeside side, historic community of Nkhotokoto north and east of us. The trading center is located over a hundred miles away from Lumbadzi. It seemed there was a family of twelve children who were in a severe
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A recent visit by a dentist and an eye doctor to the Clinic at the Gate seems to have inspired at least one of the children toward a future profession in the medical field. Both doctors gave basic examinations in their respective fields but one little boy decided the eye care field was the
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A Single Exception Caught the Attention of George Banda The road from Lilongwe north to Kasunga is a good tarmac road. In fact it is the main road north through the tiny nation of Malawi, and the only one that is paved the entire length of the nation. Thus it carries most of the heavy
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