Lilongwe, Malawi … In the early years members of the Malawi Project found a receptive and capable co-worker in their efforts to serve the people of Malawi in the person of Napoleon Dzombe. Dzombe was a small businessman from Madisi, a small trading center about 60 miles north of the capital city of Lilongwe. Dzombe was in the lumber business and had just purchased a prime location across from the international airport near Lumbadzi. Working together the Malawi Project and Dzombe brought resources and funding together to accomplish a number of major projects. Blessings Hospital, a 110-bed, 5 building hospital complex was developed from 1999 through 2006, Mtendere Children’s Village, home today to 160 children, from 2002 to 2007, along with the Madalitso Vita Meal food plant from 2002 to 2003 (today feeding 60,000 people a day), and the Mtalimanji Agricultural Village was developed during that same period of time. Other projects in agriculture and education were put in play, and many still function successfully today. Thanks to Dzombe and the Project team millions of dollars in food aid was delivered to Malawi during the famine of 2001-2003.
While these programs remained under the watchful eye of Dzombe, other programs were developed nationwide that have taken the Project team to unimaginable heights of success. At the same time Dzombe, moving in other unexplored directions, has developed new programs that have brought him and his organization national and international attention. The Mzuzu University, in northern Malawi, recently awarded Dzombe an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Entrepreneurship, for his work in the development of his nation.
We wish to offer congratulations from the Board of Directors of the Malawi Project to Dzombe, and to those who work with him for the wellbeing and future of Malawi.