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 [...]
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 [...]
One Thousand and Counting
Cholera Crisis Claims 39 Lives
Outbreaks are seldom seen in the U. S. or Europe, but an outbreak of cholera is far too common in African, and other third world nations. The very word is often synonymous with "death", and it can spread at a pace that health officials find it impossible to contain.
In 2002 [...]
The Need for just a Simple Pencil
How Can a Student Write Without a Pencil?
Some things in this world defy translation and understanding. To explain an ocean to someone who has never left the interior of a nation is quite hard to explain. Snow and ice are hard to imagine by someone who has always lived in a lower elevation along [...]
Supplies Assist in the Efforts to Save a Life – Part II
Continued from Part One
The following is the second in the series "Painful Events Lead to Serving Another" and is narrated by Samatha Ludick from Senga Bay, Malawi:
"I rushed Ndhala back to Salima District Hospital but he was afraid, and made me promise not to leave him alone there. I promised not leave him. I also [...]
They Keep Asking For Raisins
Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi … We tiptoed into the hospital room of the men’s surgical ward at the Zomba Central Hospital in southern Malawi. It had been less than a week since Kasonga, a minister and teacher at the Leadership Training School in Mponela had been in an extremely serious accident. He was [...]
Our School was “Just Far”, but now it is “Just Near”
Dedza, Malawi … Our group was up to 20 and we were headed for a meeting that was described as "just near." After about 30 miles on a dusty, pot-holed bush road I asked the man beside me who in the world they could think the meeting was "just near". He explained it this way. [...]
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 [...]
Life in a Log, or a Bucket on Your Head
A Carved Log With Which To Fish
A Bucket for Water from a Distant River
A Hand Hoe for an Entire Garden
This is Malawi Today
Explain it and few people can understand. After all, this is the 21st Century. No one lives in a mud hut anymore, do they? And how can someone in [...]
Will The Critical Care Unit Beat the Critical Care Need?
Highway M-1 snakes across the level surface of the Lilongwe Plateau. A little way south of the capital city of Lilongwe it begins a slight roll as the road surface moves closer to the southern end of the Great Rift Valley. As it crosses the river that divides the Lilongwe District from the Dedza District, [...]
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