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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Kachikho 2 Village, Lilongwe, Malawi … Malaria is serious in sub-Saharan Africa, but as serious as regular malaria is, cerebral malaria is even worse. The potential for death from this form of malaria is extremely high. Without treatment, cerebral malaria is nearly 100% fatal. With proper treatment of antimalarials the mortality rate decreases, yet even
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Mponela, Malawi …One week after disastrous flooding washed away homes and lives east of the Mponela Trading Center, Action for Progress and local officials completed an evaluation of how many families needed emergency assistance and began aid distribution. Assistance has been quick and efficient for 42 households near the Kasangadzi River, listed as one of
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Dowa District, Malawi … The rains came down in torrents, washing away crops, damaging the fragile mud construction of village huts, and sections of M-5, the tarmac link between the lakeshore trading center of Salima, and the commercial center of Blantyre were washed away. This was not Freddy, the catastrophic cyclone that struck 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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For many people, the war in the Middle East is beyond the fringe of influence affecting their daily lives. But, for the people of Malawi, the Malawi Project, and Action for Progress the lifeline that delivers much-needed medical, agricultural, and educational supplies crosses directly into the line of fire. Events in the Red Sea are
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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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