It was a 68-minute drive down a pothole filled road on a very hot, rainy, Thursday afternoon. The trip carried us west from the Namikango Mission, in southern Malawi, down into the Maera Valley between the Mabula chain of hills. The Mwinje hills were off to the west. From the top of one of […]
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Can We Cross in the Dark of Night? Samantha Ludick, Clinic at the Gate It was 7 in the evening when the call came in. "Is your boat working," came the question from the other end of the line? "Yes", I replied. "Can you go across the lake to Mkanjila and pick up a
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When it rains it pours. It is a saying that often has a negative connotation in the circumstances of life. Another saying is that "two are better than one." In this case two instead of one is a really good thing. Although they were shipped with space between ship dates, two trailers filled
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“Failing to prepare is preparing to fail,” it is said. So many people know this, but only a few know and practice what it tells us. Among the few who manage to prepare for better results is the American Tom Rich. He is the man behind the V-tractors, whose first trip to Malawi in August
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Evansville, Indiana … An appeal for pencils for the school children of Malawi was posted on the Malawi Project web site on February 2. Responding to the appeal the elders of the Oak Hill Church of Christ in Evansville, Indiana immediately presented the need to their membership for pencils for Malawi. By the end
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They Are Worlds Apart Betty Liles lives in the western part of the U.S. in the state of Colorado, on a sprawling ranch. Moster Kanyinji lives in northern Malawi, Africa in a region populated by mud huts with thatch roofs, almost no running water, and few mechanized vehicles. The two have never met, and
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Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi … We tiptoed into the hospital room of the men’s surgical ward at the Zomba Central Hospital in southern Malawi. It had been less than a week since Kasonga, a minister and teacher at the Leadership Training School in Mponela had been in an extremely serious accident. He was
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If tractors could talk the two shinny, new V-Tractors recently arriving at their new home would have expressed their surprise and pleasure at the reception they received. Little would they have known, as the trailer doors were being opened, that a large crowd was waiting to greet them. Those outside even included the news media.
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XCPcneY6Us It derives its name from its objective of being a village tractor for use in developing countries, in this case Malawi. It derives its existence through the creative work of inventor-entrepreneur Tom Rich of the L. T. Rich Manufacturing firm of Lebanon, Indiana. It became a reality after five years of imaginative thinking, thorough
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A Carved Log With Which To Fish A Bucket for Water from a Distant River A Hand Hoe for an Entire Garden This is Malawi Today Explain it and few people can understand. After all, this is the 21st Century. No one lives in a mud hut anymore, do they? And how can
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