Bicycle Repairman Gets Chair
Wheelchair Arrives for Bicycle Repairman
Mukuti Village, Malawi… Ndiche Kosa is from the village of Mukuti 1 in Senga Bay, Malawi. He is a bicycle repairman, and he has been paralyzed from the waist down for as long as he can remember. One can hardly imagine the feeling each time he repairs a bicycle for [...]
Prostitute HIV Positive
So Many Cases of HIV among Malawian Prostitutes
So Many Cases Like 21-Year-Old Dyna
Senga Bay, Malawi… “The gardener came running, explaining that a young woman was at the gate looking for help. He had advised her today was not the day for Clinic at the Gate, unless this was an emergency. He told me she just [...]
A Dark Night Emergency-part 2
By Samatha Ludick
Clinic at the Gate
Part 1
Villagers Gather Sticks for Splints
We quickly greet those on shore and Magic explains that we don’t have much time. Putting on gloves I examine the driver of the motorbike. He does not appear in such dire straits. I inspect a cut on his head and a fat lip, [...]
A Dark Night Emergency-Part 1
Can We Cross in the Dark of Night?
Samantha Ludick, Clinic at the Gate
It was 7 in the evening when the call came in.
"Is your boat working," came the question from the other end of the line? "Yes", I replied.
"Can you go across the lake to Mkanjila and pick up a patient? There has been [...]
Look, Look, Edson is in School
Who Remembers Edson?
Edson is Going to School
Most readers will not remember Edson. He was simply one small boy in over 1,000 people who received a wheelchair from the Malawi Project during the past four years. In fact, he was the first person who received a wheelchair through Samantha Ludick and the Clinic at the [...]
Painful Event Leads to Serving Another – Final Installment
Narrated by Samantha Ludick with the Clinic at the Gate in Senga Bay, Malawi:
"Every second day I drive to Mukuti Village in order to pick up Ndhala and a guardian and bring him to one of my establishments where I can clean and redress his wounds. I carefully check each time to insure that he [...]
Painful Event Leads to Serving Another
Part one of a three part series
Read part II
When Bad Things Lead To Helping Others
In August of 2008 we posted the painful story of the death of the mother of one of the employees of Cool Runnings, a small resort on Lake Malawi owned by Samantha Ludick who also conducts the Clinic at [...]
Nothing Worse Than No Supplies
British Medical Team Arrives in Senga Bay
Salima, Malawi … During the past year the Malawi Project has sent a sizeable amount of medical supplies to assist Samatha Ludick, owner of the Cool Runnings resort. Near the entrance to this resort in Senga Bay Ludick runs the Clinic at the Gate medical first aid treatment center. [...]
Pain Arrives at the Gate
Senga Bay, Malawi… The emotion is beyond explanation when you have to look a loyal, long-standing employee in the face and tell him his mother just passed away a brief five minutes after the two of you had been discussing her medical condition. He only just finished his sentence that he did not want [...]
Am I to Die Here?
Salima, Malawi … Our car races along behind the yellow Cool Runnings Chevrolet 1975 pick up truck as it bounces over the broken tarmac road from Senga Bay to the district hospital west of the Salima Trading Center in central Malawi. Samatha Ludick from the Cool Runnings resort and the Clinic at the Gate is [...]
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