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Informative and Colorful Flyers Available

Indianapolis, Indiana … A few weeks ago a number of informative and colorful flyers were completed to help those interested in the Malawi Project to have a wider view of the many and varied programs being carried out by the Project, and its supporters. These flyers not only outline information about the Malawi Project, there […]

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Winning One for Hanneck

Hanneck Redson is a 9 year old by with a soft smooth complexion and big dark eyes. He is also suffering from a rheumatic heart disease, and was recently admitted to a local hospital where a visiting American cardiologist diagnosed the boy as having a heart disease. A murmur was heard all over the boy’s

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Lines for Everything

Southern Malawi … Lines are not unusual in Malawi. There are lines for food, fuel, fertilizer, and frequently there are lines for medicine and medical aid. In a recent shipment of medicines and medical supplies, Dr. Smith Chibaka, of the Sacred Promise Clinic, reports a number of life threatening situations where the supplies made a

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Visiting the Soap Factory

It’s not like other soap factories, nothing the size of Ivory, Dove, or Irish Spring. It does not compare in scope and distribution to Zest, or brands like Soft Soap. It’s just a little hole in the wall operation, working on a shoestring in Norcross, Georgia. It’s just a few dedicated people who are making

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Namikango Faces the Shortages

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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AIDS Orphan – HIV Positive

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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Namikango AIDS Program Effective

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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Sickle Cuts Deep

Senga Bay, Malawi … “As I enter I can see her sitting on a mat near the back of the house. I can’t believe what I am seeing. How can this have happened, and how can she sit so still, in such hot weather, with her leg propped up as it is. I ask what

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200,000 Bricks for New Hospital

200,000 Bricks Scott Gordon, President of the Malawi Project, was at the site in July for the groundbreaking ceremony for the new hospital. Nearby was the growing stockpile of bricks. He observes, “Can you imagine a pile of 200,000 bricks made one brick at a time, by hand? This is the commitment of the impoverished

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I’ve Had a Painful Day

“The most painful part of my work is telling children like Fredson we do not have wheelchairs, then watching them crawl away – helplessly.” Wilson Isaac Tembo I met a 9-year-old village boy who has a burning desire to be educated and crawls to school.  Fredson Mtentha of Nkanda Village is the boy, and  he

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