Malawi Project

Life in a Log, or a Bucket on Your Head

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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Universal Aide Society Shapes a Difference

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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Namikango Prepares for U.S. Shipment

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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New Sites Open New Opportunities

Coverage Expands Extensively      During the past year the Malawi Project has seen quite an extension in its outreach to new sites in the nation of Malawi. This has led to increased opportunities, and has also seen some of the original sites become independence from continued Project support. As was planned from the inception of

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Fire Destroys Part of Dedza Hospital – Project Reacts

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trBYhvb3SKo Fire Sweeps Through Dedza Hospital     Laboratory services at Dedza District Hospital are no longer accessible because a voltage regulator stopped working following a fire that gutted a hospital block housing the kitchen, laundry and storeroom including the records room.     Meanwhile, preliminary investigations into the cause of fire have revealed that a fault

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Will The Critical Care Unit Beat the Critical Care Need?

Highway M-1 snakes across the level surface of the Lilongwe Plateau. A little way south of the capital city of Lilongwe it begins a slight roll as the road surface moves closer to the southern end of the Great Rift Valley. As it crosses the river that divides the Lilongwe District from the Dedza District,

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Ode to a Plain, White, 5-Gallon Bucket

The Important Things in Life     Paying a bundle for Christmas presents for the grandchildren only to discover on Christmas morning that they are playing with the wrapping boxes instead of what is inside.     Shipping thousand and thousands of dollars in medical equipment and supplies to a medically starved nation only to observe the

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Youth Group Conducts Hospital Program

    Mzuzu … Each Sunday afternoon, when supplies are available, the Youth Group from the Mchengautuba Church of Christ in Mzuzu, Malawi go to the Mzuzu Central Hospital to give assistance. They carry out a program of service to the patients and those who come to care for them during their time in the hospital.

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Blowing in the Wind

Fishermen Challenge the Waves         Birds drift on strong winds, women and girls wash ragged old family clothes, and the wind makes it difficult to hold the camera steady in the face of the blustery weather. Fishermen challenge the waves in order to eat for another day, as the sleeves of my sweater drag

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Training the Handicapped Self Reliance

A Visit to KODO     Salima, Malawi … It is late morning when we arrive at the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach office in a dilapidated, old, rundown building on the east side of the Salima Trading Center. Outside, because there is not enough room inside, is a row of half a dozen women and men

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