Six A.M. in Malawi

By Malawi Project | October 28, 2013 | Comments Off

No Frosted Flakes Here Senga Bay, Malawi … The sun is already climbing fast and it won’t be long until the heat of the day begins to press in on the inhabitants. Close by the sounds of the waves from Lake Malawi can be heard rushing up on the sandy beaches, only to recede out […]

Teachers Face Uphill Challenges

By Malawi Project | October 21, 2013 | Comments Off

Teachers in Malawi, and many other emerging nations, face problems unseen and unimaginable in western classrooms. Every day thousands of children try to learn without the necessary resources. There are few libraries, classrooms are overcrowded, and there are not enough trained teachers, support staff, and administrative personnel. It is not uncommon to see classrooms with […]

Mpingo Wa Yesu Khiristu in Chalk

By Malawi Project | October 14, 2013 | Comments Off

The chalkboard sign sits outside a brick school structure just a few yards east of the Mozambique border. This is Chewa for “Church of Christ”, and this sign and the congregation meeting inside the building was not here seven months ago. It is the results of the work on Priestly Nkhonjera, the administrator and the […]

Textbook Importance First Hand

By Malawi Project | October 7, 2013 | Comments Off

Nsipi School, Malawi … She had seen pictures of excitement, and the early stories about the distribution of the textbooks. Brielle Read, a teenager from Austin, Texas spent a lot of time working on her Girl Scout project that resulted in 33,000 school textbooks being sent to Malawi. Her family lived and breathed textbooks for […]