Malawi Project

Books Arrive for Kamuzu Academy

    It Has Been Called "The Eton of Africa"    The late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda founded the Kamuzu Academy in November 1981. The school has been recognized as an elite facility bringing academic excellence to a highly motivated and skilled student body.      The school is located in the Kasungu District of Malawi and […]

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Am I to Die Here?

Salima, Malawi … Our car races along behind the yellow Cool Runnings Chevrolet 1975 pick up truck as it bounces over the broken tarmac road from Senga Bay to the district hospital west of the Salima Trading Center in central Malawi. Samatha Ludick from the Cool Runnings resort and the Clinic at the Gate is

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KODO Expands Reach in Malawi

KODO Distribution Goes Both North and South     Because of the recent influx of supplies from the supporters of the Malawi Project the work of the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach  (KODO) has been able to expand into parts of Malawi that were only dreamed of just a few months ago. The following gives a partial

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Go Away Cursed Darkness, Go Away

Things Are Really Looking Bad, Woe Is Us     The nightly news sounds like a catastrophe happening. Oil Prices Around the World Hit Record High African Dictator Threatens to Kill the Opposition Bankruptcy Appears Possible for World’s Largest Car Make Record Numbers of Children Around the World in Slavery Roadside Bombs Kill Large Number in

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Hope In The Distance

    Chiotha Village, Malawi … The rays of the African sun seem to penetrate through the thinning white hair on the back of my head, and tiny beads of sweat trickle down the back of my neck and gather near the small of my back. The rainy season is coming in the sub-Sahara, but first

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Education Moves Malawi Toward Its Future

The Key to the Future Is Found in a Textbook      "Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." Horace Mann (1796-1859) U.S. educator     It is no secret that the key to the future for many of the

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Timothy Was Not Just Another Statistic

     Large numbers and statistics harden us.  Daily the media bombards us with facts and figures about suffering in the world.  Maybe because all of this information is so abstract we too easily forget that it represents real people who have the same feelings that we do.  The staggering numbers of Africans being cut down

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Lake Begins New Program For Handicapped

    Salima, Malawi … On the road to Senga Bay, Malawi the observer will quickly see the recently constructed lake or large holding pond for rainwater that is located northeast of the Salima Trading Center. The purpose of the lake is to collect water during the rainy season in order to have irrigation capabilities

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Caregiver At The Age Of Eight

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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The Beggars Wanted to Use Her

  “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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