Mponela, Malawi … Chikondi was selling vegetables in the local marketplace to provide for herself and her two children. This 31-year-old mother, and her family, lived in Malowa Village, just near the Mponela Trading Center, and even closer to the Kasangadzi River. As she visited friends and neighbors who passed by, she sold some of […]
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Indianapolis, Indiana … For several days the African News Services was filled with news about the record-breaking cyclone that struck Malawi (a small and peaceful country in east-central Africa) in the middle of the night. Named Freddie, the storm had traveled across the entire Indian Ocean, then inland to strike a catastrophic blow to southern Malawi
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She remembers it as though it were yesterday, and it is recalled with great emotional pain. It was the week everything in her life changed. “It was 2013 when I developed a sore on my right leg,” Tiyese recounted. “Nothing we did made it better, and finally I had to go to the hospital. To my horror,
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“We’ll do 100,” said the first child. “Five hundred,” said the child who leaned over the pew as though he could crawl over it and reach the front row by sheer excitement. A thousand,” another chimed in enthusiastically. “Two thousand,” came the voice from the back of the group as though he were at Sotheby’s bidding on a famous painting.
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The Liwuto Primary School was opened in 2013. It is a government sponsored school, located in the central region of Malawi. Enrollment stands at 688 with 366 girls and 322 boys. Like many public schools in Malawi, the lack of resources tops the list of challenges. For example, the school has only 13 desks. This
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It does little good to suggest a person should fish rather than being handed the fish if there are no resources for a fishing pole, line and sinker, bait, and a lake or pond with fish. In many cases, the intense poverty of Malawi makes it impossible to subscribe to more modern methods when they
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Lebanon, Indiana … All was quiet as the evening shadows crept across the empty parking lot at the old beige factory building. Inside Across a long row of pallets lined each side of the long narrow warehouse. Tall pallets stood silent waiting the scheduled day. This would be container # 342 destined for Malawi in
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“Have you ever been excited with a pencil?” “Have you ever thanked God for that simple piece of wood, clay, and graphite?” If you have never expressed appreciation for something as simple, yet as important, as a pencil. Perhaps it is long overdue. “Wow, you are crazy,” you might say. “Thank God for a pencil.” “That is
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Demotte, Indiana … They are not numbers, objects, or targets. Nor are they figures, records, or numerals. What they are, is expectation, anticipation, and freedom. They are promise, prospect, and possibility. They are dreams, wishes, and goals. They are the future, the end of the long, long road, and they are overwhelming the present with
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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
