Cheats Death Going Outside After 22 Years Ntcheu, Malawi … It made national news in one of the leading newspapers in the tiny African nation of Malawi. The front-page headline seemed to scream for attention, “Death Cheat – Bed Ridden for 22 years.” Farther inside a nearly full page leads off with the headline, […]
Help Needed to Build Safe Kitchen At First It Looked Like Rubbish Thondwe, Malawi… From a distance it almost looks like a pile of metal stacked up near a clearing waiting to be thrown away. But as one walks along the path near the Namikango Maternity Clinic, and reaches a point near the rusted metal
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Wheelchair Arrives for Bicycle Repairman Mukuti Village, Malawi… Ndiche Kosa is from the village of Mukuti 1 in Senga Bay, Malawi. He is a bicycle repairman, and he has been paralyzed from the waist down for as long as he can remember. One can hardly imagine the feeling each time he repairs a bicycle
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KODO Handicapped Assemble Wheelchairs Salima, Malawi… Just east of the central portion of the Salima Trading Center in Malawi, Africa stands Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach, or KODO. It is a humanitarian organization that has been formed with the purpose and focus of helping those with physical disabilities. George Banda, a victim of a physical
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Board Members Bring Home the Property Deed Indianapolis, IN … In recent weeks three members of the Malawi Project Board of Directors have made important and valuable trips to Malawi. In early July Suzi Stephens, the Medical Director of the Project was requested to come to Malawi in order to extend medical care to
Four Nations Touch Lufi Chinesa Senga Bay, Malawi… The Free Wheelchair Mission in southern California commits itself to giving wheelchairs to people in third world nations who cannot care for themselves. Contributors from many quarters send funds. At the same time the Malawi Project in central Indiana commits itself to helping to care for
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180,000 Tracts Prepared for Departure to Malawi Indianapolis, Indiana … With the departure of the next shipment of supplies to Malawi a total of 180,000 tracts will be included on the shipment. These tracts were written by John Thiesen and translated into two languages for Malawi. This will bring to 400,000 the total number of
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Lumbadzi, Malawi… In an early morning automobile accident on August 17, two members of the staff at Mtendere Village were fatally injured. Ruth Chisale and Grace Phambana died at the scene. Grecian, the administrator at Mtendere Children’s Home, and driver of the car, was in critical condition at a Lilongwe Hospital. Ruth (Ruthie) had worked
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Thondwe, Malawi… “I was amazed at how easy it was to assemble the BUV’s. In just a matter of moments the group of men had snapped them together. The vehicles are unlike anything I’ve ever seen, half-motorcycle and half car. They look like they have the versatility to do multiple tasks in a place like
Senga Bay, Malawi … In 2008 the Malawi Project committed funds to assist the Malawi Paratroop Battalion in the construction of the only public library in the Salima-Senga Bay part of the country. Construction moved slowly since many of the members of the battalion, including its commander, were called away into other African nations on
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