Health Emergency in Malawi
Tuberculosis in Malawi
Malawi has declared tuberculosis a national emergency. Currently over 27,500 people are being diagnosed with the disease every year, but this figure is estimated to be only 50% of all cases in the country. The USAID estimates the total number of new cases each year to be 52,000. The Malawi Ministry [...]
Kamuzu Academy Receiving Textbooks
It Has Been Called "The Eton of Africa"
The late President Hastings Kamuzu Banda founded the Kamuzu Academy in November 1981. The school has been recognized as an elite facility bringing academic excellence to a highly motivated and skilled student body.
The school is located in the Kasungu District of Malawi and occupies a [...]
Two Giants Have Fallen
State of the Nation – Two Giants have been Struck Down
1st tree pictured on right – This giant Baobab tree fell across the main highway M-14 from Salima to Lilongwe during the rainy season of 2007. It was located 2 kilometers west of the Nkotakota – Salima intersection, and situated on the south (right) [...]
Their Only Gift
A recent distribution of quilts and blankets, made in America, brought smiles, warm feelings and expressions of appreciation from a number of new mothers at the Lumbadzi Health Care Center north of the capital city of Lilongwe.
The blankets were gifts from individuals and organizations in America that consistently make and send the quilts to the [...]
The Cemetery that Kills People
Highway M-1 from Blantyre to Lilongwe is long, straight and by African standards a good, well-marked tarmac road. Only south of the mountainous area near Dedza does the road climb into the mountains and present the traveler with some sharp, snake like curves and turns as it crosses the mountain range south and west [...]
Rice Beats “The Time of Famine”
Last year’s harvest is nearing an end and the new crops are still months away. It will soon be "the time of famine" and it arrives somewhere in Malawi almost every year between January and April before the new harvest can be gathered from the fields.
Aid is Shifted When Tsunami Strikes Southeast Asia
Arriving [...]
Handicapped Help Change Facility Image
Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach Receives a Facelift
Recent assistance from the Malawi Project has helped improve the image of the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach in Salima, Malawi. In August the Project extended a grant to Mr. George Chimpiko Banda in order for him to improve the image of the offices and work area of the [...]
Solitary Man in a Solitary Place
Zuze Moyo - A Solitary Man in the Dowa Valley
It is sometimes strange how your eyes will catch on a single person in a crowded place. Something about them gets your attention; perhaps their attractiveness, or perhaps their outgoing personality, or maybe it is simply because they are the only person directly in your [...]
