With the support of aid agencies in Canada, California, and Germany, the Malawi Project has been able to successfully ship 10 full trailer loads of medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, wheelchairs, 14,000 new pairs of shoes, and educational materials to Malawi in the first months of 2012. It has proven to be one of the most successful years to date, even though economic conditions have left the Project nearly empty of funds. With the inability of the Project to fund many of these shipments, the other agencies, aid groups, governments, and church groups have stepped in to make the shipments possible.
The inventory of recent shipments includes over a million dollars in medicines, a large variety of hospital equipment and supplies, over 30,000 school textbooks, a nearly full trailer of orthopedic supplies, 550 wheelchairs, a quarter of a million pieces of literature, as well as a 20-foot trailer of Bibles, Commentaries, and class materials.
The materials are currently being distributed throughout Malawi. Four members of the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors will be traveling to Malawi during the months of August and September to look in on the progress of the various programs being executed in this small sub-Saharan nation.