Sukasuka Village, Malawi … Over the course of the years Vaughn and Peggy had a hobby of collecting beanie babies. The collection grew, and by the time of Vaughn’s death the number had reached into the hundreds. Peggy decided to donate the collection to the children of Malawi. In August her neighbors, Dick and Suzi […]
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Distribution from the shipment of 33,000 books sent by the Western HIlls Church of Christ in Austin, Texas, late last year, has reached into over 1,000 schools in all three regions of Malawi. During a recent visit by Brielle Read, the Austin teen-ager who inspired the program, she had the opportunity to visit a Malawi
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Nsipi School, Malawi … She had seen pictures of excitement, and the early stories about the distribution of the textbooks. Brielle Read, a teenager from Austin, Texas spent a lot of time working on her Girl Scout project that resulted in 33,000 school textbooks being sent to Malawi. Her family lived and breathed textbooks for
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Dedza, Malawi … It is Saturday night at the trading center at Dedza, and a few blocks north of the main street, the students from the Malawi International Bible Institute (MIBI) are enjoying a celebration. The evening has been organized by Suzi Stephens, Medical Director for the Malawi Project, and includes the students in the
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In 2001 Lauren Armanino, a 15-year-old California high school student watched a TV program about vision problems in Africa. She was determined to help solve the problem that she was seeing, and so, with the help of her family, Lauren started “Eyes Around the World” (EATW), a program where used eyeglasses were gathered and shipped
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Thondwe, Zomba, Malawi … “This is the second time in the past year you have helped the kids in this school. Earlier this year, we received textbooks. This is the first gift of its kind since the School opened in 1924”, noted the second deputy head teacher with excitement that could be easily read from
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Kwenje Village, Zomba … When the day arrives for planting seedlings in the “Shoes for Trees” program it is a time for the entire village to come together and participate. This was the case when the Kwenje Village, men, women and children came out to have a part in planting thousands of trees. Through the
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Huntersville, North Carolina is a long way from Thondwe, Malawi, but the girls of Brownie Troop 2525 in Huntersville have bridged the gap of knowledge, and turned what they have learned into action. Each year Girl Scouts of America does a project for “National World Thinking Day.” This year five nations were offered. Lonnie Serdinsky,
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Victor Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) considered the most influential French Romantic writer of the 19th century once said there is nothing stronger than an idea whose time has come. This seems true when it comes to the realization that little girls in emerging nations are at the bottom of the list
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A jovial mood characterized by dancing and singing recently occurred in the village of Msoma-Malosa in Zomba district. Drawn from seven area-wide villages, 580 women, men and children gathered for the event. But one must ask what calls so many people together for a joyous event? Believe it or not, it was a tree planting
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