Imagine… …cutting wood for the fire to prepare breakfast, then having to carry it for 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile on your head back to your home. …walking far up the mountain to cultivate your family farm plot, while carrying a baby on your back and a heavy hoe over your shoulder. …walking to […]
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In 2009 the Malawi Project issued its first financial grant to enable an individual to start a small business to help him, his family, and a number of orphans he has been trying to support. The grant went to Robert Chilemba of Nkhotakota. Robert excelled in primary education, and was one of the highest rated
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Her name is Kusala, and if you are at the Namikango Mission you may see her. Every morning she goes with her mother to the market. She is a grade 2 pupil at Msamba Primary School, a school located less than 5 kilometers from the mission. Her family earns a living selling sugarcane, and during
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“I found Patrick Dandaula lying in a hospital bed on Tuesday morning. It was not that he was suffering from a disease like Malaria. No. His mother had brought Patrick to Pirimiti Community Hospital for additional balanced food provisions. He was suffering from malnutrition. Pirimiti Hospital takes care of close to 150 patients a month
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Mosquito Confines Her to Silence and Wheelchair Unknown Village, Southern Malawi … The African sun was beating down at nearly 100 degrees. Sweat beads slowly roll from my hat to my eyebrow where I periodically wipe them away. We turn south from the tarmac road and almost immediately it turns into a curving, pot-filled,
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Site Inspection Proves Pleasant Thondwe, Malawi … Reaching Malawi on Thursday late afternoon board members Dick and Suzi Stephens were taken to the Namikango Mission and Maternity Clinic for the evening. Reports on the progress of the Mission were reflective of so many ministries that rely on western funds in order to carry out
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The V-Tractor is Hard at Work Like many parts of Malawi, the area around Thondwe (in the southern part of the nation) is extremely rich with natural resources. Trees, hills, animals, water, and much more are all naturally a part of daily life for the people around Thondwe and the Namikango Mission and Maternity Hospital.
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WHEELCHAIR MOBILITY TO ENELESI WEBU It has been said, “Disability is not inability.” I am sure this is a very motivating statement that disabled people are excited to hear. However, think of the other side of this thought. Think of a young girl in a very remote village of the southern part of a small
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Lumbadzi, Malawi… In an early morning automobile accident on August 17, two members of the staff at Mtendere Village were fatally injured. Ruth Chisale and Grace Phambana died at the scene. Grecian, the administrator at Mtendere Children’s Home, and driver of the car, was in critical condition at a Lilongwe Hospital. Ruth (Ruthie) had worked
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It was a 68-minute drive down a pothole filled road on a very hot, rainy, Thursday afternoon. The trip carried us west from the Namikango Mission, in southern Malawi, down into the Maera Valley between the Mabula chain of hills. The Mwinje hills were off to the west. From the top of one of
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