Lilongwe, Malawi … By international standards the news story is not something that will capture powerful consideration. With all the trauma and chaos in the world a story about villagers in Africa stealing grain from train cars is not something that would usually call for a second look. But, in a country known for its […]
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Tractor Arrives in Time for Next Season Thondwe, Malawi … Tom shut off the engine and blocked the wheels after carefully guiding the blue and yellow V-Tractor into the semi trailer at his manufacturing plant in Lebanon, Indiana. After packing medical supplies, empty prescription vials, and eight-kidney dialysis machines the doors were closed and the
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Celebrating to Caring It was a time of celebration, the annual Officer’s Ball for the Parachute Battalion. The dinner menu was amazing; Mushroom soup as a starter, followed by a large buffet made up of Beef, Goat, Chicken, Whole fish, Rice, Nsima, Potatoes, Pasta, Cabbage Salad, Greek Salad, Chinese Cabbage, Rape, Roast vegetables with wonderful
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Malawi, Central Africa … Each day that passes brings an even deeper pit of pain, suffering and starvation. Harvest is a long way away and as hunger worsens hope grows dim for help to arrive in time for many. No mother or father wants to hear his or her children crying at night from
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Grain Bins Running Out of Food Thondwe, Malawi … As famine grows more serious in Malawi another shipment of food has arrived at the warehouse in Namikango. Distribution to the most serious areas of famine has begun. This is the second shipment in the past 3 months and more shipments are planned as funding becomes
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Fact – The World Bank reports that between 1990 and 2000 alone, more than a fifth of Malawi’s forests vanished. Fact – Lake Malawi is home to some of the greatest fish diversity of any lake on earth, but deforestation is resulting in soil erosion and siltation of parts of the lake. Fact – By
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Editor’s Note: It started with a brief email on November 16, 2015. In part it read, “My name is Molly and I started collecting pill containers* for the Malawi Project three weeks ago in three churches, my school, … Could I please, just like any group or organization, ship the containers during the first two
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Indianapolis, Indiana … A large number of people have questioned why such a vastly successful program would be concluded. It is just because of that success that we have been able to conclude its run. Well over 1 million pill containers were donated between March and November 2015. With so many containers it has been
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Thondwe, Malawi … “My name is Alex Nunu. I am the Maintenance Foreman at Namikango Bible School. I would like to write briefly about the Basic Utility Vehicle (BUV) – its usage and importance. We received the BUV in 2007 at Namikango Bible School from the Malawi Project. We have been able to use this
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Indianapolis, Indiana … At the October meeting, the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors unanimously accepted Jim Messenger as a member of the Board. Messenger was born in Lebanon, Indiana where he graduated from Lebanon High School, later receiving a MBA degree from Dallas Baptist University. Jim graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and served in
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