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Ishmael Can Dream Big Dreams

Ishmael Tchale Can Dream Great Dreams Mwale Village, Malawi… The new school year is beginning, and children in western nations often start it with moans and complaints. For them summer is over, and it is time to get up at the break of dawn, gather up their homework, and head out the front door toward […]

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Prostitute HIV Positive

So Many Cases of HIV among Malawian Prostitutes So Many Cases Like 21-Year-Old Dyna Senga Bay, Malawi… “The gardener came running, explaining that a young woman was at the gate looking for help. He had advised her today was not the day for Clinic at the Gate, unless this was an emergency. He told me

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When A Kitchen is Not A Kitchen

    Thondwe, Malawi … In the village areas of Malawi the women bend at the waist in order to stir black pots filled with white maize mixed to a porridge consistency. Fire blackens the old pots as the flames lap up from the wood or charcoal cooking fire, and smoke fills the eyes of those

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Feeding A Book Starved Library

    It was a 68-minute drive down a pothole filled road on a very hot, rainy, Thursday afternoon. The trip carried us west from the Namikango Mission, in southern Malawi, down into the Maera Valley between the Mabula chain of hills. The Mwinje hills were off to the west. From the top of one of

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A Dark Night Emergency-Part 1

Can We Cross in the Dark of Night?   Samantha Ludick, Clinic at the Gate It was 7 in the evening when the call came in. "Is your boat working," came the question from the other end of the line?  "Yes",  I replied.  "Can you go across the lake to Mkanjila and pick up a

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Two Trailers Reach Namikango Hospital … At the Same Time

    When it rains it pours. It is a saying that often has a negative connotation in the circumstances of life. Another saying is that "two are better than one." In this case two instead of one is a really good thing. Although they were shipped with space between ship dates, two trailers filled

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The Amazing Maize Field

“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” it is said. So many people know this, but only a few know and practice what it tells us. Among the few who manage to prepare for better results is the American Tom Rich. He is the man behind the V-tractors, whose first trip to Malawi in August

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Indiana Church Contributes Nearly 5,000 Pencils

     Evansville, Indiana … An appeal for pencils for the school children of Malawi was posted on the Malawi Project web site on February 2. Responding to the appeal the elders of the Oak Hill Church of Christ in Evansville, Indiana immediately presented the need to their membership for pencils for Malawi. By the end

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A World Away is Right Next Door

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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They Keep Asking For Raisins

     Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi … We tiptoed into the hospital room of the men’s surgical ward at the Zomba Central Hospital in southern Malawi. It had been less than a week since Kasonga, a minister and teacher at the Leadership Training School in Mponela had been in an extremely serious accident. He was

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