Eyes Around the World

By Malawi Project | September 16, 2013 | Comments Off

In 2001 Lauren Armanino, a 15-year-old California high school student watched a TV program about vision problems in Africa. She was determined to help solve the problem that she was seeing, and so, with the help of her family, Lauren started “Eyes Around the World” (EATW), a program where used eyeglasses were gathered and shipped […]

Students Study at MIBI

By Malawi Project | September 9, 2013 | Comments Off

Dedza, Malawi … Students look the same around the world. Studious, focused, attentive and committed. The picture shows the first students at the new MIBI campus in Dedza, Malawi. The school got underway a few weeks ago after Priestly Nkhonjera completed his training to be the school administrator of the new school. For two years […]

Shoes for Grades – Katamba Primary School

By Malawi Project | September 2, 2013 | Comments Off

Katamba Primary School, Zomba, Malawi … It is estimated world-wide there are 215 million children trapped in child labor, and 115 million in hazardous work including, slavery, armed conflict, drug-trafficking and other illegal activities. The world community recently observed World International Labor Day, and used this time to highlight the plight of child workers, and […]

Lion Over There

By Malawi Project | August 26, 2013 | Comments Off

Trip to a Game Park The driver suddenly turns right, bounces off the dirt road, and into 4-foot high African bush. A little way in he cuts the engine, and the sound of the savannah intrudes into our senses. Before we had been hearing only the sound of our guide, the crackle of his old […]