Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi … We tiptoed into the hospital room of the men’s surgical ward at the Zomba Central Hospital in southern Malawi. It had been less than a week since Kasonga, a minister and teacher at the Leadership Training School in Mponela had been in an extremely serious accident. He was […]
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Blantyre, Malawi … "As we sat and talked the hospital administrator seemed not to notice what was obvious to us." Probably he had been looking at them for so long this way they almost looked normal. Or perhaps it was because he could do little about it that he seemed not to notice.
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If Birds Could Talk Thondwe, Malawi … If birds could talk perhaps they would be commenting on the beautiful new roof that has been completed on the Namikango Maternity Hospital just east of the Thondwe Trading Center in Malawi Central Africa. The facility sits on the north side of the road between Zomba and
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Dedza, Malawi … Our group was up to 20 and we were headed for a meeting that was described as "just near." After about 30 miles on a dusty, pot-holed bush road I asked the man beside me who in the world they could think the meeting was "just near". He explained it this way.
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If tractors could talk the two shinny, new V-Tractors recently arriving at their new home would have expressed their surprise and pleasure at the reception they received. Little would they have known, as the trailer doors were being opened, that a large crowd was waiting to greet them. Those outside even included the news media.
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Senga Bay, Malawi… The emotion is beyond explanation when you have to look a loyal, long-standing employee in the face and tell him his mother just passed away a brief five minutes after the two of you had been discussing her medical condition. He only just finished his sentence that he did not want
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCPcneY6Us It derives its name from its objective of being a village tractor for use in developing countries, in this case Malawi. It derives its existence through the creative work of inventor-entrepreneur Tom Rich of the L. T. Rich Manufacturing firm of Lebanon, Indiana. It became a reality after five years of imaginative thinking, thorough
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A Carved Log With Which To Fish A Bucket for Water from a Distant River A Hand Hoe for an Entire Garden This is Malawi Today Explain it and few people can understand. After all, this is the 21st Century. No one lives in a mud hut anymore, do they? And how can
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Canadian Group Rallies Support During the past 9 years nearly 300 trailers of supplies have been sent to the small nation of Malawi through the work of the Malawi Project. A vast majority of these trailers of supplies have been medical in nature, and they have allowed the Project to extend its reach into
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Maternity Hospital Staff Reviews Shipment Over lunch two members of the staff at the Namikango Maternity Hospital, and the American missionary at the Naminkango Mission in Thondwe, Malawi discuss with Suzi Stephens R.N., Medical Director for the Malawi Project Inc., plans for the arrival of the first 40-foot container of medical supplies to the
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