Stories that appear in this section relate to programs being carried out by the Malawi Project to assist those who are positive with HIV/AIDS in Malawi
Stories appearing in this section give details about the Medical programs being carried out by the Malawi Project, and the medical groups in Malawi that work with the Project to bring much needed aid and supplies to this country.
The Malawi Government has decentralized programs to allow grass roots, community groups to assist the needy in their area. The Msamba Community Based Organization, near Zomba, Malawi is one of the groups being helped with aid.
Richard Stephens of the Malawi Project, and Whitney Blaesser, the International Operations Manager for the
Free Wheelchair Mission look at the route the new wheelchairs will take to reach Malawi
Villagers in Nkutu Village have made over 200,000 bricks in order to do their part, and make a contribution toward the construction of a new hospital in their area. The hospital is a joint effort by the Dzidaliare Agency and the Malawi Project
It is the home and life of an average Malawi family. In this case, a widow is trying to raise 10 -12 of her grandchildren after the death of their parents, her children. This inside view of life in the village will be difficult for the westerner to comprehend.
The Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability
Outreach (KODO), near Salima, Malawi is completing a number of buildings focused on training and assisting physically handicapped people. Not only are they given wheelchairs and walkers, they are also trained in programs that will help them become self reliant.
Near Dedza, Malawi are the famous Chongoni Rock Drawings. In this historic area the Malawi Project and the Dzidalire Community Development Agency have broken ground for a new medical facility.
Dr Frank Black, a medical missionary to Tanzania, Africa for 7 years, as well as working in short term medical mission work in several other nations, speaks about the need for supplies to developing nations.
On the land where a new international school, hospital, and vocational training site is soon to be constructed, the Malawi Project sponsored a Shoes for Trees program. The village people planted 17,000 trees in exchange for new pairs of tennis shoes. Here, a village chief sports his new shoes.
The villages around Mkutu Village, 20 kilometers north of the Dedza Trading Center in Malawi, Africa, will soon have available a new hospital. The facility will be a co-operative venture between the Malawi Project in America, and the Dzidalire Agency in Malawi.
With the establishment of the new nation of South Sudan, the Mt Juliet Church of Christ, is putting in place a leadership training school, and a medical facility. The Malawi Project is assisting in the establishment of this medical facility.
During the ground breaking for a new hospital near Mkutu Village in central Malawi, the girls demonstrated to members of the Malawi Project what they are learning in school. Each of the girls received a new dress through a joint program with Little Dresses for Africa, a group from Michigan USA. Plans call for the shipment of 45,000 dresses to little girls in Malawi in coming months.
The little girls of Mkutu Village in the Dedza District were surprised recently when members of the Malawi Project brought them new dresses. The dresses were supplied by Little Dresses for Africa, a non profit group working from Michigan in the U.S. In coming months a plan is underway for the Malawi Project to assist in sending 45,000 of these little dresses to Malawi.
A bench was needed for the Senga Bay Library. The Malawi boys did not know how to build one. Then came the idea to search the shelves of the library itself for some sort of Do It Yourself book that would help them. A book was found, instructions were followed, and the bench was completed.
In co-operation with the Paratroop Battalion and the Cool Runnings Lake Resort, and a number of individuals and groups, the Malawi Project contributed both funds and books to the successful complete of the new library for the citizens and students in the Senga Bay, Malawi area.
It was hard to comprehend, but here it is, right on the front page of the newspapers. Pictures and stories of rioting, looting, and as one paper described it, "Total Chaos" For more information go to: www.malawiproject.org
For years we had heard of the little people who were reported to have made cave drawings in the caves near Dedza Mountain. The story and our search for this evidence is found at the blog site:
malawi-travel.blogspot.com/
A major ceremony was conducted before the distribution of over $2,000,000.00 in drugs and medical supplies to hospitals and health care facilities in all three regions of Malawi.
The event was covered by Malawi Television and Zodiac On Line Coverage.
The man speaker was the Honorable Annie Singani Leman, Member of Parliament for the Thondwe area, and Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs for the nation of Malawi.
Chief Nkutie, an 84-year-old tribal chief in central Malawi has requested health care assistance for her people. The Malawi Project and the Dzidalire Agency have responded to assist her request, and build a modern medical facility in the Dedza District.
We are in central Africa, the nation of Malawi, and we are on a quest to find evidence of the presence in this area of the "little people." Some have called them the sand people, others the pygmies. Go with us on this pictorial trip. Better still go with us in words and pictures at:
malawi-travel.blogspot.com/
Throughout Malawi small, local community based organizations are springing up where the local people themselves are creating programs to help the people in their local areas.
It is an organization focused on getting dresses to little girls in Malawi. Under review are ways for the Malawi Project and the Little Dresses for Little Girls organization to work together to send and distribution 40-foot trailers of dresses into Malawi.
Pictures of people in Malawi receiving wheelchairs through the support of the Malawi Project and a number of agencies in the U. S. and Malawi who cooperate in this effort
Her name is Doricca Somanje. She is a Nyanja by tribe and hails from Mtuweni Village in Zomba. At her age, she might have collected dozens of kilograms of firewood for her family’s use.
Thanks to a cooperative program between the Free Wheelchair Mission in California and the Malawi Project in Indiana, Mr. Makhuwila, a minister in Lilongwe Malawi receives a wheelchair with which to get around.
It's been a hard month and now it is time to kick back and relax. Go with us over to Lake Malawi for an overnight stay at the Cool Runnings Resort in Senga Bay. You'll be glad you did.
On a hot day in the African summer Wilson Tembo and an assistant deliver medical supplies to the District Hospital at Balaka, Malawi. Their trip and observations are described on the Malawi Project web site. For all of the stories on that site go to www.malawiproject.org
A new site is now available in order to further acquaint the observer with the nation of Malawi. It is hosted by members of the Malawi Project ( www.malawiproject.org 0, and is available by going to:http://malawi-travel.blogspot.com
On their first trip to Malawi both Molly and Brent Gourley were pleasantly surprised to see such an excited reception as they distributed pencils, paper, and other supplies they had brought with them from America. The Gourley's are member of the Oak Hill Church of Christ in Evansville, Indiana who helped them with funds for the trip, as well as gathering supplies for them to deliver to Malawi
When the lights go out at the Namikango Mission Mark Thiesen the Director turns to the new generator purchased for them by the Malawi Project.
For more information on how you can help in Malawi write to:
info@malawiproejct.org
When the western visitor steps foot in the "Warm Heart of Africa" it is a real treat for many who come in contact with a man who personifies the motto of the nation. He is Elias Mwale, a man who truly reflects the "warm heart" as he serves the needs of those who visit his ancient land. Meet him for yourself at the Malawi Project web site: www.malawiproject.org
The versatile V Tractor has a large number of uses. In this case it is being used to eradicate an ant infestation at Cool Runnings, a small lake resort in the nation of Malawi.
For more information on the V tractor go to: www.malawiproject.org
Young Bertha Nasdzu joins in an adult coversation, yet she is only 2 years of age. She is a beautiful little girl and one that would make any parent proud. Her home is in the central region of Malawi south of the capital city.
A couple in their later years are an inspiration to mission points and missionaries in a number of countries. Their names are Jean and Gene Morris, and they have a lifetime together of a deep commitment to missions.
Supplies were delivered from the Namikango Mission warehouse to children at the Australian Secondary School and Far & Wide Children's Home in southern Malawi. The supplies were part of a recent shipment from the Malawi Project and supporters in the U.S.
They say it is one of the most beautiful places in the world. See for yourself, and decide for yourself. One would be hard pressed to argue with the conclusion, that few places in the world are more photogenic than this lake in Malawi.
Along with almost everything else, the Malawi medical system is short enough beds and mattresses. The influx of HIV/Aids, coupled with increased TB, and the ever present malaria, malnutrition, and other problems causes the medical establishment to be always trying to catch up with the crisis.
It was a scene unlike anything seen in the west. The delivery room of a rural, Malawi, government hospital. Few supplies, and fewer resources, and an upcoming birth on a black, plastic, trash bag!
An infestation of insects at the Cool Runnings resort on Lake Malawi threatened to disrupt the campers who find the site a popular place to overnight while exploring the lake. The V-Tractor was called in to cope with the emergency. The story will appear on the Malawi Project web site in December. See it then to learn the result of this challenge to the abilities of the tractor.
The Vice President is coming for a conference, and a mass of debris has just washed up on the beach. What to do? Call for the V-Tractor to come and rescue the situation. Read the story at www.malawiproject.org
Alice Misomali sees the opportunity to create her own business after receiving a wheelchair from the Namikango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi. The wheelchair was made possible through the Malawi Project and the Free Wheelchair Mission
Although originally designed for crop management, the innovative V Tractor has proven to be useful in a number of other uses in Malawi, Africa
A situation recently occured where a large amount of debris washed up on the beaches near the beach resorts. The V tractor, termed the Swiss Army knife of tractors, sprang into action. The beach was cleaned in record time.
During 2010 the Malawi Project had the opportunity to assist the Vice President of Malawi, the Honorable Joyce Banda, in a number of projects. Pictured here is the Vice President and Basani Mphongolo who assisted with the distribution of the medical supplies.
Through a joint program with the Malawi Project, the Free Wheelchair Mission and the Namikango Mission in southern Malawi a donation of 10 wheelchairs have been given to the Malawi Broadcasting Corporation for free distribution to the poor.
The Malawi Project helps to sponsor the Clinic at the Gate in Senga Bay, Malawi. This is just one story of the good that is being accomplished at this site. Read the story at: www.malawiproject.org
In a recent joint effort between the Malawi Project, Project C.U.R.E. and the Dzidalire Group a total of 250,000 seedlings were planted in order to help offset the deforestation of Malawi.
For more information on the incentive programs that include the shoes for trees program write to:
info@malawiproject.org
or go to the web site:
www.malawiproject.org
Seldom do people rush to be first in the kitchen, but this actually happened recently with the completion of the new kitchen at the Namikango Maternity Clinic in Thondwe, Malawi.
In a nation as poor as Malawi almost everything must be transported on the heads of the people. There are few ox carts, few bicycles, and fewer cars. But with the arrival of three BUV's into the country the load has been lightened for at least a few of the people. For more on the BUV and the work of the Malawi Project, go to www.malawiproject.org
In a land where almost everything must be transported on someone's head, the BUV lightens the load by transporting the lumber in the back of the basic utility vehicle. In other settings the unit functions as a transport of people, or for the transport of various commodities.
For the most recent story see: www.malawiproject.org
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.
The main house of the owners of the Lujeri Tea Estate is now open to the public. Go with Elias Mwale, a native Malawian and tour the house, have a cup of tea, read a good book, or take a nap on the verranda.
One visitor to the country spoke wisely when she said, "It is all about the children". What she meant was the fact the children of Malawi are its great treasure, it's future, and it's joy. One cannot visit the country without being touched and delighed by contact with the children
When you want to combine a humanitarian project with a little relaxation on beautiful Lake Malawi there is no better place to look than at the Cool Runnings Lake Resort. Samantha Ludwick and the Malawi Project have teamed up to carry out a number of programs that will help the local people along the lakeshore.
For more information contact: info@malawiproject.org or coolrunnings@malawi.net
in the year 2004 the Malawi Project and the owner of the Blessings Complex near Lumbadzi, Malawi founded the Mtendere Children's Village. Its purpose was to supply a home, an education, and the needed resources for children who had no parents to care for them. The group of homes now cares for nearly 200 orphan children and is functioning without further support or assistance from the Malawi Project.
An express purpose of the Malawi Project is to help develop programs that will reach a point of functioning on their own without outside help.
Blessings Hospital, Lumbadzi, Malawi. In the year 2000 the Malawi Project teamed up with a Malawi small businessman in order to create a hospital in central Malawi. Blessings was the result. The growth of the hospital has continued until it reached a stage in 2007 where the continued support of the Malawi Project was no longer necessary and the hospital now functions without further support from the Malawi Project.
Blessings Hospital, Lumbadzi, Malawi. In the year 2000 the Malawi Project teamed up with a Malawi small businessman in order to create a hospital in central Malawi. Blessings was the result.
The first building was completed in 2001 and the second building was ready for occupancy in 2006.
The growth of the hospital has continued until 2007 when continued support of the Malawi Project was no longer necessary. The hospital now functions without further support from the Malawi Project.
Travel to the top of Mt Mulanje with a group of British Medical Students who have been working at Blessings Hospital in Lumbadiz and take time to travel to the south and conquer the peaks of the highest mountain range in central Africa.
During a recent eye and tooth examination conducted by Samatha Ludick of the Clinic at the Gate in Senga Bay, Malawi some of the children decided to demonstrate the work the doctors did with them.
The Malawi Project is a major contributor of medical aid and supplies to the Clinic at the Gate
Namikango Maternity Clinic was built in the trading center of Thondwe in 1973-74. Thondwe is located just a few miles east of the city of Blantyre, the commercial center of the nation in the southern region of the country. Between 60 and 80 babies a month are born in the facility. Mark Thiesen, an American missionary working on the complex reports, “Namikango Maternity Clinic exists to provide safe deliveries, looking out for the well-being of mother and child.”
The Malawi Project is a major supporter of the Namikango Maternity Hospital
Malawi is a country of about 12 million people. About 1 million of those people are orphans.The Malawi Project engages in a number of programs that assists in the care of orphans.
The capital of Malawi, Lilongwe is located near the geographical center of the nation of Malawi. Lilongwe became the capital city in 1975 when it was moved from the southern city of Zomba.
Zomba was the original capital of Nyasaland, a British colony until 1964 when the nation gained its independence, and became the nation of Malawi. The capital remained in Zomba until 1975 when it was moved to the city of Lilongwe by President Hastings Kamuzu Banda.
In the tiny nation of Malawi it is often necessary to transport critically ill patients from remote villages to a hospital by way of an ancient ox cart.
The Malawi Project is committed to changing the health care of Malawi.
For more information go to:
www.malawiproject.org
The Madalitso VitaMeal Plant in Lumbadzi Malawi processes vast amounts of food for distribution to orphans, the handicapped, the elderly and other needy people.
The Malawi Project was instrumental in the creation of the Madalitso Plant in 2004. By the end of 2006 the food plant was operational and functioning without further support from the Project.
Mtalimanja Agricultural Training Village, established in 2005 with the help of the Malawi Project.
The Village is designed to assist in the training of approximately 200 farm famiiles, who live and farm on this training facility.
At the end of two years the families will return to their home villages to begin employing the farm methods learned during their time at Mtalimanja. The name means "the arm that extends to help."
The Mtalimanja Agricultural Village is now operating without additional support or funding from the Malawi Project.
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