In the Dust, Across Stones and Through Mud Matowe Village, Chiladzulu Malawi, Central Africa… Twenty-two-year old Ibrahima Imran calls Matowe Village home. Ibrahima is physically challenged and has never traveled more than two-kilometers from his home, except when going to school or a nearby medical facility. His only means of mobility has been crawling in […]
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Wheatland, Indiana … A shipment of Personal Energy Transportation carts recently departed northern Indiana destined for Malawi. These are the first units of their kind to be distributed through the Malawi Project, and has been made possible by Mobility Worldwide Inc. (formerly PET) http://mobilityworldwide.org/affiliates/indiana-demotte/ Over the years the Malawi Project’s medical/mobility programs have resulted
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Indianapolis and Demotte, Indiana … In 1994 an American missionary to Zaire (Congo) told another about the need for three-wheeled, hand-cranked wheelchairs, a need that was especially critical because of high numbers of disabilities from disease and injuries from land mines. Prototypes were developed, and in 1995 the first units were shipped to Zaire. Manufacturing
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Indianapolis, Indiana … A large number of people have questioned why such a vastly successful program would be concluded. It is just because of that success that we have been able to conclude its run. Well over 1 million pill containers were donated between March and November 2015. With so many containers it has been
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At 48-years of age Malita Mthita has not only been unable to visit friends, she has not been able to travel 500 meters to a church assembly, or journey five kilometers to the nearest healthcare facility for much needed attention. She has been unable to leave her immediate village, and could not even enjoy a
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“I saw an old walker. Everyone in the ward used it when going to the toilet at the far end of the ward, and time after time a number of us would scramble for it. An old partial broken toilet chair also served us for this period”. Rodrick recalls. Rodrick Maluwa is a member of
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On the Outskirts of Zomba, Malawi … Emails of concern flowed in after the story of young Fredson’s unsuccessful appeal for a wheelchair in late 2011. He had crawled to the warehouse at Thondwe but found it empty of chairs. In the subsequent story Wilson Tembo expressed deep concern with having to turn down his
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Another Self Sustaining Program Salima, Malawi …The success of the Malawi Project to procure needed supplies, and to distribute them throughout Malawi has been a great success story. Governments, corporations, small businesses, not for profit organizations, churches and innumerable individuals have come together to make it happen. When these shipments reach Malawi, with hardships unrecognizable
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Thondwe, Malawi… As we returned from a fact finding trip to Ntonda Primary School, we met a 12 year-old boy waving from a wheelchair we recognized as having been distributed through the Malawi Project, Namikango Mission, the Free Wheelchair Mission, and many of you. Meet Earnest Makadyera – Earnest now attends school regularly and wants to
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Age is No Restraint from Serving Pensacola, Florida … On a warm, sunny, fall afternoon she sat in her living room, clutching a hand-made wire galimoto, and described how this gift had been given to her, by Malawi children, because of what she learned, and did, after reading about a wheelchair organization helping third world
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