Five Years and Nearly Five Hundred Quilts Later

By Malawi Project | September 21, 2007 | Comments Off

It started in 1998 when Jenny Church from Indianapolis, Indiana USA made a quilt for her employer to take to Malawi and give to a needy family. When the Stephens couple returned that year they brought Jenny a picture of the recipient of her first donated quilt. Her story appeared on the Project’s web […]

Maternity Clinic To Receive A New Roof

By Malawi Project | September 17, 2007 | Comments Off

Namikango Maternity Clinic was built in the trading center of Thondwe in 1973-74. Thondwe is located just a few miles east of the city of Blantyre, the commercial center of the nation in the southern region of the country. Between 60 and 80 babies a month are born in the facility. Mark Thiesen, […]

Namateni Banda, A Wheelchair Makes Her Useful

By Malawi Project | September 13, 2007 | Comments Off

She Thought She Was Useless A forty-six-year old lady named Namateni Banda lives in a village called Kawamba Villege. She lives in the area of Traditional Tribal Authority Mponela in Dowa District. This is the first district or state north of the capital city of Lilongwe, Malawi, Central Africa. Namateni was able to walk until […]

Issah Malunga – Child Headed Household

By Malawi Project | September 9, 2007 | Comments Off

He had gone to the rice paddies near Salima in order to find piecework, and was referred to Samatha Ludick at Cool Runnings, “because she will help you.” said the matron who advised him. “It’s a long walk and I hate to have to send you so far, but you can get help there.” […]