Lebanon, Indiana … At first glance it looks like some sort of “ivory tower”. But the definition of an “ivory tower” is, “a place — or an atmosphere — where people are happily cut off from the rest of the world.” This is not a place where people are cut off, but a place where people […]
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Lebanon, Indiana … The catastrophic destruction from Cyclone Freddie has left in its wake a disastrous loss of life, destruction of business, devastation of villages and grain storage, and collapse of crop production for this entire year. (Grain was only weeks away from harvest). The loss of life has passed 500, with some people buried
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Lilongwe, Malawi … The warning spread across the nation like sheets of rain in a typhoon. The Integrated Food Security survey had warned between October 2022 and March 2023 an estimated 3.8 million, or 20% of the entire nation would face acute shortages of food. There was no place to hide, no place to go,
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Mabvuto Msungata Malembo Village, Malawi … “People who are looking for help with mobility issues are flocking to Action for Progress,” reports Wilson Tembo, Executive Director for AfP. “With the number of needed units running into the thousands it seems personnel from AfP are on the road all of the time ensuring the units get into the right
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Lebanon, Indiana … Over this past weekend the nation of Malawi, in Central Africa, suffered what may be recorded as the longest-running cyclone in history. Entire villages, along with many of their residents have washed away in a torrent of rain and mud, roads disappeared in mudslides and torrential rain, flight traffic disrupted, electric service
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Blantyre, Malawi … The name Freddie seems innocent enough. A lot of people refer to a child or adult named Fred as Freddy. But that name will not be seen with favor for a long time in Blantyre, Malawi. Because of its recent holder roads are closed. Electricity is out. Schools are closed. Airline flights
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Blantyre, Malawi … The worst is yet to come. The disaster that continues to unfold in Blantyre, Malawi and other parts of the nation will have critical results in the days to come. The cyclone that hit the city in the dark of night over the weekend has brought catastrophe to the nearly 1,000,000 residents
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ASK AND YOU WILL RECEIVE… “If you don’t ask you don’t get,” has been one of the reasons for the success of the Malawi Project. When it comes to the needs of the people of Malawi it is obvious, they have little voice on the world stage. After all, they are a very tiny country when
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27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27 “17 If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need but has no pity on him, how can the love of God
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In Malawi this idea of problems (or disasters) coming in groups of three is alive and well and coming in numbers even larger than three. This time it is hitting with the force of four or more. One must realize words and phrases mean different things in different parts of the world. This is especially true in Malawi.
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