A seven year old that wants to be a nurse, Kusala must look beyond the cane she is carrying. Her story is similar to the stories of thousands of children in Malawi, Africa
The arrival of the 3rd V-Tractor to Malawi not only captured the attention of tribal authority in the area around Senga Bay, it also caught the attention of the Right Honorable Joyce Banda, the Vice President of Mlaawi
Every day in Malawi one sees the struggle first hand to get things from one place to another. There are few bicycles, fewer ox-carts or almost no cars or trucks. The only way to get things where you need them is on your head. One can hardly imagine carrying a 50-gallon-drum very far on your head, or a load of wood that needs to reach the capital marketplace on the back of a bicycle for 40 miles up and down mountain roads, or 5 or 10 gallons of water being carried on your head for 1/2 a mile from a dirty stream.
Funding from the Malawi Project has made possible a new cooking area for the caregivers to provide food for maternity patients at the nearby hospital. The old kitchen was in critical disrepair, and badly needed to be replaced.
Family and friends must come with the patients to care for them while they are in the hospital. The caregivers sit on the ground hour after hour, day after day waiting for the time to prepare the next meal or to go inside and care for the patient. With facilities sorely inadequate, and the monsoon rains drenching the region these caregivers, and even some of the expectant mothers, are outside in the rain with no way to get inside.
In Malawi there is insufficient resources for the hospitals to care for and feed the patients. It is necessary for friends or family members to travel with the patient to the hospital and remain nearby to care for the patient during their entire stay. All around the grounds of nearly every hospital the caregivers can be found, sitting, talking, waiting, sleeping, and caring for the friend or family member in the hospital. This can go on for hours, days or weeks.
Samatha Ludick, Owner of Cool Runnings Resort, the Malawi Paratroop Battalion based in Senga Bay, the Malawi Project and a number of other contributors gave time, money and resources to successfully complete the only public library in the area around Senga Bay, Malawi.
In extremely high surf the fishermen along the shore of Lake Malawi fight the early morning waves in both long boats and dug out canoes in order to reach the fishing areas far out in the lake.
Fishermen challenge the surf in order to reach the fishing grounds each morning on Lake Malawi.
The lake is 365 miles long and 52 miles wide and is the 12th largest freshwater lake in the world.
There is reported to be more varieties of fresh water fish in Lake Malawi than in all of North America and Europe combined.
A new invention in farm technology, the V-Tractor (V stands for Village) has been designed and created with the Malawi village farmer in mind. Moving from a hand hoe to a farm tractor is a big step. The V-Tractor is designed to make that first step an easy one.
