Working closely with major contributors, members of the Malawi Project were able to procure approximately three quarters of a million dollars in medical supplies and equipment for a new medical facility in South Sudan. Sponsored by the Mt. Juliet Church of Christ, in Mt Juliet, Tennessee the Sudan Project is taking a page out of […]
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Thondwe, Malawi …Located in southeastern Malawi, the Namikango Maternity Clinic opened in 1975 in response to the need for maternal health care for a coverage area of over 51,721 people. Today, the center helps deliver as many as 95 babies a month, and in 2011 provided maternal health care for 1,626 pregnant women. Symon J.
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Another Self Sustaining Program Salima, Malawi …The success of the Malawi Project to procure needed supplies, and to distribute them throughout Malawi has been a great success story. Governments, corporations, small businesses, not for profit organizations, churches and innumerable individuals have come together to make it happen. When these shipments reach Malawi, with hardships unrecognizable
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Working with the Malawi Project in the U.S. and the Namikango Mission and Maternity Clinic in Malawi, two Canadian groups have supplied Bibles, Commentaries and other religious material to Malawi. Universal Aide and Compassionate Warehouse in British Columbia, Canada recently sent a 20-foot trailer filled with thousands of books for Bible students, church leaders, and
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Dedza, Malawi … Funding made available through a major contributor has resulted in the construction of a new maize mill for the people in the Lintipi area of Malawi. The mill is located north of the Dedza Trading Center, and west of Highway M-1, in a remote mountainous area of Malawi. It is part of
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Salima, Malawi … Along the road to the lake, just east of Salima, a small group of buildings are being completed. A number of people with physical disabilities are tilling the land, and the resulting crops are assisting to make them self-reliant. The program is part of the effort by George Banda, and Kuthandiza Osayenda
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The United Nations estimates there are over 16 million children under 18 that have been orphaned by AIDS worldwide. Many live in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Malawi many of these children live in child headed households, or stay with (often elderly) relatives who can do little to care for them. The crisis is critical, and yet
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The scale of the orphan crisis in Malawi and the rest of sub-Saharan Africa is somewhat masked by the time lag between when parents become infected and when they die. As adults continue to die from AIDS over the next decade, an increasing number of orphans have and will continue to grow up without parental
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Let’s look at the lives of two clients of the Namikango Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT). (All names have been changed to maintain client confidentiality). Susan Susan joined the Namikango HIV/AIDS support group in 2009, and recently noted, “The support group has helped me in so many ways, most especially on the spiritual side.” She
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Thondwe, Malawi … The HIV/AIDS pandemic came to the limelight 1985 after the first case was diagnosed in Malawi. Since then, a great deal of focus has come to bear on the problem, in order to bring awareness concerning the dangers, and how to prevent further transmission. Among the initiatives, the Voluntary Counseling and Testing
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