Lilongwe, Malawi … Prepared especially for the current catastrophic famine conditions in sub-Saharan Africa, a 24-page booklet is currently available in Malawi. The 6 x 9 booklet describes some of the causes and various ways villages can prepare for worsening conditions that are coming over the next few months.
Causes such as the absense of mechanical equipment, weather conditions that left crops dying in the fields, lack of adequate storage facilities, and the failure in some cases to plan ahead are all explored and noted in the first few pages. But, these reasons are not left hanging as the only answer to the famine. It is noted that starvation will come to those who sit back and blame these reasons and do nothing to rescue themselves from the desperate food shortage.
The second half of the book gives practical applications of what needs to be done to offset the famine and ways villagers can ban together to change the situation in coming months. The booklet offers hope in a situation that could be hopeless if nothing is done, and done quickly.
A large printing was carried out in the states, and another recently in Malawi. Distribution is currently underway.
Copies of the book are available at the Malawi Project’s warehouse at the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. Contact Wilson Tembo.