The Birthright
If Only Access to Good Water Were a Birthright
Water is life. Having potable water for domestic use is a birth right. This is true to many People in the world. If only access to portable water is a birth right, then the residents of Chandiwo Village in central part of Malawi have few birth [...]
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 [...]
Ishmael Can Dream Big Dreams
Ishmael Tchale Can Dream Great Dreams
Mwale Village, Malawi… The new school year is beginning, and children in western nations often start it with moans and complaints. For them summer is over, and it is time to get up at the break of dawn, gather up their homework, and head out the front door toward the [...]
Malawi Faces Shortage of Drugs
Lilongwe, Malawi… As one of the poorest countries in the world Malawi is almost always short of the basic elements of life; food, electricity, transportation, good water, medicines and medical supplies to name just a few.
A recent report from the Malawi Health Equity Network (MHEN) states the public hospitals are so short [...]
Over Three Billion at Risk from Malaria
In 107 nations of the world, 3.2 billion people are at risk from malaria. An estimated 40 percent of the population of the world live in malaria-endemic regions, with malaria listed as the most important parasitic disease. It is killing more people than any other communicable disease, with the exception of tuberculosis. Malaria is [...]
Economic Downturn Causes Program Reductions
Indianapolis, Indiana … The news headlines seem to come at us like an ugly billboard beside a vagrant cemetery. Unemployment is up, retail sales are down, and the value of the world’s stock markets offers little reprieve from the gloom and doom that creates tonight’s lead stories.
As the dismal news floods out across [...]
It Just Happens
The Pain of Recalling
There is no picture of Lillian Chibaka. The pain of recalling the story can be seen in his face as Doctor Smith Chibaka recalls the events surrounding the last months of the life of his little baby cousin.
Lillian was born in 1999, and was on the way to becoming a [...]
The Girl in the Wheelbarrow
She Goes Everywhere in the Wheelbarrow
Where ever they go she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to the trading center, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to church, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they walk along the road, she goes in the wheelbarrow.
The girl in the wheelbarrow is 19-year-old [...]
A Sausage for Your Illness, and Your Learning
I learned This from A Sausage Tree
It was a hot July afternoon in the lower Rift Valley and the African sun was beating down unmercifully. We had finally found a hiding place under the forest canopy at the Liwonde Game Park. Most of the teams who had come to work during their summer vacations had [...]
