TB Hits Highest Rate in Africa

By Malawi Project | April 5, 2009 | Comments Off

Another Person Every Second Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious disease and is spread through the air. Only when a person is sick with tuberculosis in their lungs are infectious. When infectious people cough, sneeze, talk or spit, they propel TB germs, known as bacilli, into the air. Another person only need inhale a small number […]

Look, Look, Edson is in School

By Malawi Project | March 30, 2009 | Comments Off

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 […]

Basic Utility Vehicle Custom Made as Ambulance

By Malawi Project | March 22, 2009 | Comments Off

Ox Cart Going Out as an Ambulance Pregnant women on the way to the hospital often reach their destination on the back of a bicycle, or in the back of an ox cart. It is not unusual in third world nations, and Malawi is no exception. In mountainous parts of the nation the problem […]

Economic Downturn Causes Program Reductions

By Malawi Project | March 15, 2009 | Comments Off

Indianapolis, Indiana … The news headlines seem to come at us like an ugly billboard beside a vagrant cemetery. Unemployment is up, retail sales are down, and the value of the world’s stock markets offers little reprieve from the gloom and doom that creates tonight’s lead stories. As the dismal news floods out across […]