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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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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