Site Inspection Proves Pleasant
Site Inspection Proves Pleasant
Thondwe, Malawi … Reaching Malawi on Thursday late afternoon board members Dick and Suzi Stephens were taken to the Namikango Mission and Maternity Clinic for the evening. Reports on the progress of the Mission were reflective of so many ministries that rely on western funds in order to carry out [...]
At First it Looked Like Rubbish
Help Needed to Build Safe Kitchen
At First It Looked Like Rubbish
Thondwe, Malawi… From a distance it almost looks like a pile of metal stacked up near a clearing waiting to be thrown away. But as one walks along the path near the Namikango Maternity Clinic, and reaches a point near the rusted metal panels, [...]
BUV In Minutes
Thondwe, Malawi… “I was amazed at how easy it was to assemble the BUV’s. In just a matter of moments the group of men had snapped them together. The vehicles are unlike anything I’ve ever seen, half-motorcycle and half car. They look like they have the versatility to do multiple tasks in a place like [...]
V-Tractor Offers Hope For Progress Out of Poverty
Few Jobs, High Mortality, and Low Literacy Rates
In these economically troubling times in the western nations it seems no job is certain. As we watch the unemployment rate sneak up to 5%, 6%, and higher and we rightfully fret over our friends and family whose jobs may be threatened.
Imagine 80% Unemployment
Imagine a country [...]
Basic Utility Vehicle Custom Made as Ambulance
Ox Cart Going Out as an Ambulance
Pregnant women on the way to the hospital often reach their destination on the back of a bicycle, or in the back of an ox cart. It is not unusual in third world nations, and Malawi is no exception. In mountainous parts of the nation the problem is [...]
Tembo Brings Expertise to Namikango
Tembo Family Move to Southern Region
“He brings a level of specialty that we absolutely need as we begin a new ministry,” according to Mark Thiesen of the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. Mark continues, “The Malawi Project, a church-related ministry based in Indiana, has begun sending shipping containers of medical supplies that will bless [...]
Ready, Set, Receive
Mission Awaits First Shipment of Supplies
Board members of the Malawi Project conducted a site evaluation of the Namikango Maternity Hospital, and the adjoining land and buildings in Thondwe in August 2008. Subsequent discussions centered on the location near Zomba, the former colonial capital of Malawi, becoming a second site in the southern region for the [...]
If Tractors Could Talk
If tractors could talk the two shinny, new V-Tractors recently arriving at their new home would have expressed their surprise and pleasure at the reception they received. Little would they have known, as the trailer doors were being opened, that a large crowd was waiting to greet them. Those outside even included the news media.
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You Are HIV Positive
Hearing the News that "You Are Positive"
"Malawi doesn’t have the same strictness about privacy that we have in the US," I tried to explain to my guest from America as we both stiffly watched the scene unfold before us. A nurse who was showing us around the clinic had seated us in a little testing [...]
Not About Money
Don’t Pay Me Anything!
"Don’t pay me anything. Life is not about making money; it’s about helping." With these words Singini Bandawe shrugged off my attempt to compensate him for the fuel and wear and tear on his vehicle that he had expended for me that morning.
I had just met Singini a few [...]
