She Goes Everywhere in the Wheelbarrow Where ever they go she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to the trading center, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they go to church, she goes in the wheelbarrow. When they walk along the road, she goes in the wheelbarrow. The girl in the wheelbarrow […]
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This One Is Impossible to Explain It is probably impossible to explain what it is like to walk into a hospital, go to the pharmacy storeroom, and see a single box of gauze on the shelf. That is all. One box. Oh, wait a minute. There is a Band-Aid near the box. Now that
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KODO Distribution Goes Both North and South Because of the recent influx of supplies from the supporters of the Malawi Project the work of the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach (KODO) has been able to expand into parts of Malawi that were only dreamed of just a few months ago. The following gives a partial
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Miami University Students & Faculty Make a Difference! "It was well worth it." This was the conclusion after a group of 21 volunteers from Ambassadors for Children, including 13 students and 1 faculty member from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, endured the 20+hour air flight journey to Malawi. Everyone instantly fell in love with
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Things Are Really Looking Bad, Woe Is Us The nightly news sounds like a catastrophe happening. Oil Prices Around the World Hit Record High African Dictator Threatens to Kill the Opposition Bankruptcy Appears Possible for World’s Largest Car Make Record Numbers of Children Around the World in Slavery Roadside Bombs Kill Large Number in
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How can words ever describe the plight being faced by children like little Madalitso (Blessings) Batison in Malawi, Africa? No amount of words can begin to describe the uphill battle for survival in an all too unforgiving land where poverty and the lack of medical care, or social services makes it nearly impossible for
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A Cow Manure Solution A father of a six year old came to the gate, "madam PLEASE help my boy for he is not getting better he is getting worse… My son had an accident and he was burned by boiling water one week and some days ago." The man was asked
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Hearing the News that “You Are Positive” “Malawi doesn’t have the same strictness about privacy that we have in the US,” I tried to explain to my guest from America as we both stiffly watched the scene unfold before us. A nurse who was showing us around the clinic had seated us in a little
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I learned This from A Sausage Tree It was a hot July afternoon in the lower Rift Valley and the African sun was beating down unmercifully. We had finally found a hiding place under the forest canopy at the Liwonde Game Park. Most of the teams who had come to work during their summer vacations
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The Fishermen of Nguwo Village Senga Bay, Malawi … The wind was blowing in from the lake with an intensity that caused white caps to lunge on the shore as though they were locked in some sort of grudge fight. The morning sun reflected its blazing rays against the grey-blue water in order
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