Age is No Restraint from Serving Pensacola, Florida … On a warm, sunny, fall afternoon she sat in her living room, clutching a hand-made wire galimoto, and described how this gift had been given to her, by Malawi children, because of what she learned, and did, after reading about a wheelchair organization helping third world […]
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Thondwe, Malawi … Mary Saikolo cannot walk. In fact, she has never been able to walk, because of paralysis in both legs. She is both physically challenged, and a single parent. She starts each day by crawling in the dust from her small dwelling house, to a place where she can find enough food for
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“The most painful part of my work is telling children like Fredson we do not have wheelchairs, then watching them crawl away – helplessly.” Wilson Isaac Tembo I met a 9-year-old village boy who has a burning desire to be educated and crawls to school. Fredson Mtentha of Nkanda Village is the boy, and he
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Southaven, Mississippi … “Be alert to opportunities to help Malawi,” has become a motto for church elder Jerry Winstead, of the Goodman Oaks Church of Christ in Southaven, Mississippi. He shares the vision of fellow elder, Smith Howell who, for many years before his death, focused intense interest, and energy on helping the people of
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Scott and I are winging our way back across the Atlantic as I reflect on the two weeks we have just spent in Malawi. It is the shortest time I have been there since 1995, and it seems like I just arrived and it was time to go to the airport for the flight back
I was on the way from the Namikango Mission to Thyolo. I got out of the truck that had given me a ride, and almost immediately a minibus stopped directly in front of me. The conductor asked where I was going. This bus was going the same direction. I was not in a hurry to
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The picture is that of Mrs. Beatrice Petani, 59 years old, from Petani Village, Traditional Authority is Changata, Thyolo. Convulsions At Midnight The poor woman was quite well until the night of 29th January 2011 when around midnight she started convulsing and was restless. Her husband wasted no time but rushed her to Malamulo SDA
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Alice Misomali Sees Hope in her Future Namathiya Village-Zomba, Malawi … In 1972, a baby girl was born in a family of Mr. and Mrs. Namkwenya. They named her Alice. Like many school children, Alice started at a nearby Junior Primary School in her Village. It was located 50 kilometers east of Zomba, the former
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Ntalimaja Village, Malawi … As you look at 17-year-old Frolence Sadck it is hard to imagine a mother or sister trying to carry this girl on their back as they move from place to place, but it is a sad fact, and it is true all over Malawi. It is a picture you see far
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Machinji, Malawi … The border crossing is almost in sight when one is at the western edge of the nation in the trading center of Machinji. Although the main road is blacktop, it is not so with the tiny dirt roads and paths traversing the district. This is Malawi, and it does not get much
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