Mobility

Death Cheat

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, […]

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Bicycle Repairman Gets Chair

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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Assembling Wheelchairs

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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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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Look, Look, Edson is in School

Who Remembers Edson? Edson is Going to School     Most readers will not remember Edson. He was simply one small boy in over 1,000 people who received a wheelchair from the Malawi Project during the past four years. In fact, he was the first person who received a wheelchair through Samantha Ludick and the Clinic

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A Gentle Voice Filled With Pain

Everything Fine For Two Years     "At first I was born nicely," says Grace Gondwe as she sits facing the computer screen. It is mid-afternoon and Grace is hard at work as the assistant accountant for the school where she works in Mzuzu, Malawi. Her features are frail, and her voice is soft and gentle.

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The Girl in the Wheelbarrow

She Goes Everywhere in the Wheelbarrow     Where ever they go she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to the trading center, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to church, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they walk along the road, she goes in the wheelbarrow.     The girl in the wheelbarrow

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A 17 Year Old Riding On His Mother’s Back

One Can Little Imagine the Scene     One can little imagine what it must be like for a mother to spend 17 years of her life carrying her child on her back everywhere she goes. Yet this is what happened to Afilo Mkwapatira’s mother. Afilo is 17 years old and comes from the Kuiza Village

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Wheelchairs Stand at Attention

     Indianapolis, Indiana … As the Director for the Malawi Project prepares to take the picture Richard Stephens sights into the camera lens and notes how it appeares "the wheelchairs look like they are standing at attention." He and the Medical Director for the Malawi Project, Suzi Stephens are making an appraisal of supplies

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Run Over Like A Pitiful Animal

Car Could Not Stop as Mavuto Crossed the Road     Mavuto Chifumbi lives in Makwani Village in the area of Traditional Tribal Authority Chief Mponela in the Dowa District of central Malawi, Africa. He is not sure about his age, but is probably in his early fifties.     Mavuto was born with both legs, and

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