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Shoes for Grades – Katamba Primary School

Katamba Primary School, Zomba, Malawi … It is estimated world-wide there are 215 million children trapped in child labor, and 115 million in hazardous work including, slavery, armed conflict, drug-trafficking and other illegal activities. The world community recently observed World International Labor Day, and used this time to highlight the plight of child workers, and […]

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A Letter from Namikango

We recently received a letter from Ben Hayes, Director of the Namikango Mission Bible School , near the city of Thwonde, Malawi.  This is a letter to you, our contributors, volunteers, friends and prayer warriors.  Thank you for helping Ben Hayes and many others touch the lives of the poor. Dick Stephens One of the unique

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Namikango Faces the Shortages

Thondwe, Malawi …Located in southeastern Malawi, the Namikango Maternity Clinic opened in 1975 in response to the need for maternal health care for a coverage area of over 51,721 people. Today, the center helps deliver as many as 95 babies a month, and in 2011 provided maternal health care for 1,626 pregnant women. Symon J.

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HIV/AIDS Effects on the Family

Let’s look at the lives of two clients of the Namikango Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT). (All names have been changed to maintain client confidentiality). Susan Susan joined the Namikango HIV/AIDS support group in 2009, and recently noted, “The support group has helped me in so many ways, most especially on the spiritual side.” She

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Namikango AIDS Program Effective

Thondwe, Malawi … The HIV/AIDS pandemic came to the limelight 1985 after the first case was diagnosed in Malawi. Since then, a great deal of focus has come to bear on the problem, in order to bring awareness concerning the dangers, and how to prevent further transmission. Among the initiatives, the Voluntary Counseling and Testing

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More Wheelchairs for Malawi

Irvine, California … During the past few years a strong link has been established between the Malawi Project and the Free Wheelchair Mission in Irvine, California. The result has been over 2,200 wheelchairs shipped and distributed to handicapped people in all three regions of the country. This has taken place through an extensive network of

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Contractor Hands Over Kitchen

Guardians Rush to be First A quiet, overcast morning greeted the morning at the Namikango Maternity Hospital in Thondwe, as a light wind seemed to drift aimlessly with no purpose. People began to gather near the old guardian shelters veranda. Most of the people were there in order to care for a patient in the

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BUV Used for Maize Transport

Agriculture is the backbone of Malawi. It is a land locked country centrally positioned on the surface of the African continent. It has a population of 13.5 million people. While a stretch of the population near the lake shore depends on cassava as its main food, and the rest of the nation has varied amounts

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Beyond the end of the cane

Her name is Kusala, and if you are at the Namikango Mission you may see her. Every morning she goes with her mother to the market. She is a grade 2 pupil at Msamba Primary School, a school located less than 5 kilometers from the mission. Her family earns a living selling sugarcane, and during

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They Want to Be Doctors

“Of all the things that happened on our most recent trip to Malawi there is one moment when three lives crossed paths that I won’t easily forget,” recalls Richard (Dick) Stephens of the Malawi Project. “It was the day two boys stopped to talk while on their way to school on the outskirts of Thondwe.

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