In mid-2007 two shipments of medical supplies and equipment made their way from Indianapolis, Indiana to Lilongwe, Malawi destined to assist a first tier hospital in the capital city. Bottom Hospital recently changed its name to Bwaila Hospital, but the destitute conditions of a fourth world nation still exist that have part of the poverty of this poor portion of Africa’s sub-Sahara for far too many years.
"The cost to get these trailers from the U.S. to Malawi is extremely high," reports Suzi Stephens, Medical Director of the Malawi Project. "For instance, the cost for these two trailers was approximately $12,000.00 each. But the contents of these two trailers totaled $768,710.00 for the two. Another way to put it is that a $12,000.00 contribution to help this third world nation can deliver over $380,000.00 in critically needed goods. This is one unimaginable expansion of value to our contributors. It happens because of a vast network of contributors who make these goods possible to the Project without any cost."
Suzi concludes, "The pictures taken in this small rural hospital of one of the bathtubs and in the surgery center reflect the reason we are in Malawi, and the reason it is critical that we continue to get medical supplies into the country. They need us and they need to resources that we can deliver to their badly broken health-care system."
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