Drifting south along M-5 in Eastern Malawi the view from the galimoto (car) begins a subtle change as the elevation lowers. Leaving Lilongwe the elevation, at 3,440 feet (1,050 meters) above sea level, started dropping after reaching the crest of the Dowa Mountains. West of here, in the mountains near Dedza, the elevation towers skyward […]
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Distribution from the shipment of 33,000 books sent by the Western HIlls Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, late last year, has reached into over 1,000 schools in all three regions of Malawi. During a recent visit by Brielle Read, the Austin teen-ager who inspired the program, she had the opportunity to visit a Malawi
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No Frosted Flakes Here Senga Bay, Malawi … The sun is already climbing fast and it won’t be long until the heat of the day begins to press in on the inhabitants. Close by the sounds of the waves from Lake Malawi can be heard rushing up on the sandy beaches, only to recede out
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Teachers in Malawi, and many other emerging nations, face problems unseen and unimaginable in western classrooms. Every day thousands of children try to learn without the necessary resources. There are few libraries, classrooms are overcrowded, and there are not enough trained teachers, support staff, and administrative personnel. It is not uncommon to see classrooms with
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The chalkboard sign sits outside a brick school structure just a few yards east of the Mozambique border. This is Chewa for “Church of Christ”, and this sign and the congregation meeting inside the building was not here seven months ago. It is the results of the work on Priestly Nkhonjera, the administrator and the
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Nsipi School, Malawi … She had seen pictures of excitement, and the early stories about the distribution of the textbooks. Brielle Read, a teenager from Austin, Texas spent a lot of time working on her Girl Scout project that resulted in 33,000 school textbooks being sent to Malawi. Her family lived and breathed textbooks for
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Dedza, Malawi … It is Saturday night at the trading center at Dedza, and a few blocks north of the main street, the students from the Malawi International Bible Institute (MIBI) are enjoying a celebration. The evening has been organized by Suzi Stephens, Medical Director for the Malawi Project, and includes the students in the
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In 2001 Lauren Armanino, a 15-year-old California high school student watched a TV program about vision problems in Africa. She was determined to help solve the problem that she was seeing, and so, with the help of her family, Lauren started “Eyes Around the World” (EATW), a program where used eyeglasses were gathered and shipped
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Dedza, Malawi … Students look the same around the world. Studious, focused, attentive and committed. The picture shows the first students at the new MIBI campus in Dedza, Malawi. The school got underway a few weeks ago after Priestly Nkhonjera completed his training to be the school administrator of the new school. For two years
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Katamba Primary School, Zomba, Malawi … It is estimated world-wide there are 215 million children trapped in child labor, and 115 million in hazardous work including, slavery, armed conflict, drug-trafficking and other illegal activities. The world community recently observed World International Labor Day, and used this time to highlight the plight of child workers, and
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