The Malawi Project nurtures a comprehensive set of programs to help Malawians care for their basic needs, as well as programs designed to help the nation participate and one day compete in the global marketplace. These programs carry both a spiritual and a physical connotation and focus. They include:

Agriculture

  • The Project encourages increased crop production by providing clothing, shoes, or other family orientated items as incentives for villagers when crop goals are reached. These incentive items are acquired through the Project contributors around the world. A pair of shoes or a village bicycle as part of a competition encourages villages to produce higher results and helps break the cycle of hopelessness that often accompanies extreme poverty.
  • Training in drip irrigation, water conservation, and sustainable agricultural practices designed for the Malawi climate of wet season followed by a dry season. One of the programs is the Mtalimanja  Model Agricultural Village near the trading center of Madisi, where Malawian families live for a 2-year training session before returning to their home villages. A similar start up program near the trading center of Dedza (south of the capital city) is the Dzidaure Community Development Agency. The plan is to accomplish the same agricultural goals as that of the Mtalimanja project.
  • With the help of American support the Madalisto Vita Meal Food Plant was completed in 2004 and now employs about 100 Malawians in the production and distribution of nourishing meals for nearly 100,000 children a day. The facility also provides a market for a large number of subsistence farmers to sell their excess crops to the plant.

Orphan Care

  • Food, clothing, and educational supplies continue to be shipped to Malawi to assist in the care of orphans, widows and the handicapped.
  • Mtendere Children’s Village was constructed on the Blessings Campus at Lumbadzi. Mtendere currently houses approximately 150 children in living in a stable and supportive village family environment, where they are educated and trained to be the future leaders of Malawi.
  • Other assistance programs are underway near Lake Malawi, as well as in several other locations through goods and supplies that are  being sent to the country.

Education

  • Programs include AIDS education and the distribution of primary school, secondary school, university, and medical textbooks. The College of Nursing, the Mponela Leadership Training School and the “Post A Book” program and library are three of the programs being assisted through the Project.
  • Training sessions for church leadership groups emphasize the need for moral character in building the nation, and better health care practices in both family and community.
  • Women’s seminars are conducted each year to churches and community groups in order to address sexual purity, as well as the  ways to avoid the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
  • Over 100,000 booklets on HIV/AIDS have been distributed throughout the country in both English and the native language of  Chichewa through schools, churches, and medical facilities.

Food and Clothing

  • The harsh, unpredictable weather conditions that often plague  sub-Saharan Africa have made importing of basic food supplies necessary from time to time. Project supporters have assisted Malawi during dire situations in the past and when needed are continuing to help offset the impact of famine that stalks various parts of Malawi.
  • Along with importing food supplies for emergencies, the Madalitso Food Processing Plant at Lumbadzi, Malawi provides the capability to make a major contribution to this program. In 2006 nineteen  million meals from Madalitso were distributed to the poor.

Medical Care

  • A flagship of the work of the Malawi Project since 2000 has been the distribution of millions of dollars in medical supplies and equipment to over 144 Malawi medical facilities in every region of   the nation.
  • The Project has been instrumental in the establishment of Blessings  Hospital near Lumbadzi. The hospital offers a 100-bed facility that is now independent and operated by a Malawi medial staff and Malawi Board of Directors.
  • Facilities currently receiving special attention and support through the Project include Bwaila Hospital, Clinic at the Gate, Kachere Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center, Kuchandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach, Namikango Maternity Clinic, Sacred Promise Healthcare for Orphans, and the Bangwe Weaving Factory in Blantyre(part of the government program of assistant to the handicapped).
  • In recent years thousands of pairs of eyeglasses have been sent to Malawi for distribution to those needing vision care. With the use of a FOCOMETER (a third world eye exam instrument) a trained medical professional can examine, diagnose and make prescription glasses at Blessings Hospital.