Medical Supplies to Sierra Leone
Indianapolis, Indiana … Suzi Stephens of the Malawi Project looks on as members of the Westfield Rotary Club load a pick up truck with medical supplies destined for Sierra Leone, Africa. This is the first such opportunity the Malawi Project has had to send supplies to this West African nation.
In the past four years the [...]
The Gift of a New Blue Basin
“I found Patrick Dandaula lying in a hospital bed on Tuesday morning. It was not that he was suffering from a disease like Malaria. No. His mother had brought Patrick to Pirimiti Community Hospital for additional balanced food provisions. He was suffering from malnutrition. Pirimiti Hospital takes care of close to 150 patients a month [...]
6 Year Old Mosquito Victim
Mosquito Confines Her to Silence and Wheelchair
Unknown Village, Southern Malawi … The African sun was beating down at nearly 100 degrees. Sweat beads slowly roll from my hat to my eyebrow where I periodically wipe them away. We turn south from the tarmac road and almost immediately it turns into a curving, pot-filled, rock [...]
Strange thing – November Maize
So Strange in November
Thondwe, Malawi … There is nothing unusual with seeing a field of ripened corn this time of year, since October and November are the harvest time in the mid-western part of the United States. The fact that makes it so unusual is this scene is not in the United States, it [...]
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 [...]
The V-Tractor Update
The V-Tractor is Hard at Work
Like many parts of Malawi, the area around Thondwe (in the southern part of the nation) is extremely rich with natural resources. Trees, hills, animals, water, and much more are all naturally a part of daily life for the people around Thondwe and the Namikango Mission and Maternity Hospital. [...]
Wheelchair Mobility
WHEELCHAIR MOBILITY TO ENELESI WEBU
It has been said, “Disability is not inability.” I am sure this is a very motivating statement that disabled people are excited to hear. However, think of the other side of this thought. Think of a young girl in a very remote village of the southern part of a small country [...]
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 [...]
When A Kitchen is Not A Kitchen
Thondwe, Malawi … In the village areas of Malawi the women bend at the waist in order to stir black pots filled with white maize mixed to a porridge consistency. Fire blackens the old pots as the flames lap up from the wood or charcoal cooking fire, and smoke fills the eyes of those [...]
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