Mitchell, Indiana … Tracy Paul, owner of Cornerstone Advertising of Westfield, Indiana explains the use of several social media tools to members of the Malawi Project Board of Directors. He highlighted how these tools already rest in the hands of the Directors. During the 2nd quarter board meeting and yearly retreat, held at Turkey Run […]
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Lebanon, Indiana … The excitement was evident as Malawi Project board members Jim Messenger, Suzi Stephens, and Dick Stephens greeted the staff and students at the Redwood Montessori School in Lebanon, Indiana. The students had gathered in the church’s shelter house to present the board with over 7,000 toilet paper(tp) rolls they have collected for
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Born on the 27th of December 1979 Wilson would be the 6th, and last boy, of 7 children in his family. Home was a farm on the eastern edge of the Kasungu National Park in Malawi, Central Africa. In 1983, a year after the birth of Wilson’s youngest sister, the family moved to his father’s village in
Lilongwe, Malawi … In Malawi, rains come in late October or early November and continue nearly daily until late March or early April. Sometimes the rain comes down in torrents, making travel and work nearly impossible. River’s fill, water rushes to exit the country, and its value is quickly lost to further value. Then, after
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Heber Springs, Arkansas … Dan Brewer, a member of the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors, and his wife, Debbie, own Abbe House Bed and Breakfast in Heber Springs, (listed on Trip Advisor as the #1 bed and breakfast in the area). Dan is a private contractor for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) in Indianapolis,
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Lilongwe, Malawi … The recent signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between Action for Progress and the Government of Malawi brings cooperation and understanding to a new level as AfP increases its influence and support for the people of Malawi. The signing by officials with the Ministry of Health and AfP bolsters the cooperation between
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Dedza District … Chief Francis Makalani Banda, a Chewa Chief, from the Mphezi area of central Malawi was showing visitors the site of a major battle between the Chewa and Ngoni in the days after the assassination of the famous Zulu chief Shaka on September 22, 1828. He noted he would be taking the visitors
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After visiting Malawi for the first time in late 2022, Dan Brewer, a member of the Malawi Project’s board of directors and former Treasurer for the group, saw first-hand the depth of poverty suffered by the people of Malawi.
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Ron Pottberg was born and raised in Alamosa, Colorado and later graduated High School in Olathe, Colorado. He is a third-generation Coloradoan with both sets of grandparents homesteading in Colorado. Ron and his wife Susan married in 1977 and have three children and eleven grandchildren. They have lived and worked in ministry in Colorado, Texas and South
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It is not easy to get up in the middle of the night to catch a flight that will continue all day, all evening, all night, all morning, and only end around one in the afternoon. Yet that is what has taken place with three members of the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors. During the
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