Three students of the Para Community Secondary School, in Senga Bay, Malawi watch Barry, a volunteer, helping put the finishing touches on the new library. One of the tasks is to build a reception counter. “Mr. Barry when & where did you study carpentry,” asks one of the three students. Barry simply answers by saying, […]
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Dedza, Malawi … “Please do something to assist my people with healthcare,” pleaded 82-year-old Tribal Chief Pocheria Knutie. With this simple request the chief declared a 200-acre tract of land would be set aside for a joint Malawi-American program to develop an international school and vocational training center. It would be free of charge. While
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Dedza, Malawi … “All too long aid to Africa has meant good intentioned people from first world nations delivering help to those who have little in the third world countries. This aid was often delivered with little thought as to how it could adversely affect the people who received it. Neither side seemed to fully
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Lilongwe, Malawi … “It is impossible to imagine unless you have seen the conditions in hospitals in this, one of the poorest nations on earth. Yet, once you have been here, you can believe almost anything,” says Suzi Stephens RN, Director of Medical Services for the Malawi Project. “A recent newspaper report from the capital
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Groundbreaking Dust devils dance along the ridge, down toward the valley floor, then disappear as though they never were. High Mountain peaks in front, behind, and in the distance form the backdrop for sweeping vistas that seem to extend forever. A strong breeze chases the dust away, and shakes the tarp that is attached to
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Scott and I are winging our way back across the Atlantic as I reflect on the two weeks we have just spent in Malawi. It is the shortest time I have been there since 1995, and it seems like I just arrived and it was time to go to the airport for the flight back
First to Lumbadzi Its Sunday, and our plan calls for Scott to go to meetings about the new international school planned for the Dedza District, and I will go back to work on a manuscript with the friend in the capital. We decide we will first go to church services at the Lumbadzi church since
Getting Back on Schedule The morning of day 10 we hear things are getting back to normal, and everything seems quiet in the capital. We decide it is time to get on the road. Our first stop will be well north of the city in order to meet with one of the preachers we have
Successes in Senga Bay We arose at around 7 to the sound of the waves moving ashore. It had been a tough trip the day before, and the last two hours had been in the dark. With large numbers of people walking the edges of the road, the broken edges of the pavement with no
If We Have Known If we had seen the newspapers before leaving Ufulu this morning we would not have gotten out of bed! But we didn’t see them for hours, and it has been said that ignorance is bliss. We got up around 7, after that fight with the clock again, and at breakfast we
