Handicapped Help Change Facility Image

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Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability  Outreach Receives a Facelift

    Recent assistance from the Malawi Project has helped improve the image of the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach in Salima, Malawi. In August the Project extended a grant to Mr. George Chimpiko Banda in order for him to improve the image of the offices and work area of the Center. During 2006 a donation of 100 wheelchairs to the facility and their well-organized distribution had made a positive impression on the Project team. In 2007 Chimpiko and the Kuthanbiza were included in a number of new programs being assisted by the Malawi Project. Funding was made available in order to paint and improve the outside of the facility after an on site inspection was conducted, and then after estimates for the project were submitted and approved by the Project’s Board of Directors in the States.

    Handicapped members of the Center took on the task to clean and paint both the outside and inside of the facility. Samantha Ludick who owns the lakeside resort Cool Runnings reports on the success of the program, “By using the handicapped instead of an outside contractor George was able to take the funds that originally would only cover the outside painting and lettering of the building and made it stretch to doing not only the outside but also to cover the inside as well.”

Upon receiving the news of the completion of the Project members of the Malawi Project were able to commend Mr. Banda and Mrs. Ludick on a successful project and the reassurance of a favorable eye toward future projects. In a recent letter of congratulations to both George Banda and Samantha Ludick Richard Stephens, the Executive Director for the Malawi Project extends appreciation from the contributions for their efforts to help improve and upgrade the facility.

    Mr. Banda started the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach because of his own life long disability and personally seeing and knowing the needs of the handicapped people of Malawi. The facility extends its services into all three regions of the nation.

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