Bangwe Factory – Project Adds Yet Another Site

By Malawi Project | September 29, 2007 | Comments Off

Part of the Council for the Handicapped Program The Bangwe Weaving Factory opened in 1976 as a result of the creation of the Malawi Council For The Handicapped (MACOHA) by an act of the Malawi Parliament in 1971 (Chapter 35:02) under the administration of Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda the First President of the nation. […]

When We Arrived, Glen Wept

By Malawi Project | September 25, 2007 | Comments Off

“He has a gentle and open nature like very few people that I’ve ever met,” reports Mark Thiesen an American working in the southern part of Malawi. Mark has been part of a missionary family in Malawi since he was a small boy. His parents were missionaries in the northern part of the nation and […]

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, […]