The Key to the Future Is Found in a Textbook
U.S. educator
It is no secret that the key to the future for many of the emerging nations of Africa is to be found in education. Whether you are in the financial district of Manhattan near Wall Street, or the Ivy League halls of Oxford University on Wellington Square; whether you are on Takandas Kataria Marq in old Bombay (Mumbai), or near the Grand Hotel on Zhongshan North Roa in Taipei, Taiwan; or whether you are walking along highway M-1 near Mponela, Malawi or down a dusty path near the banks of the Zambezi in northern Zimbabwe, education is important. Whether it is the need for knowledge in agriculture, medicine, the teaching profession, or driving a truck across country education will help to insure your future.
For the people of the Africa’s sub-Sahara the communication link with the outside world is fast imbedding itself in their future. Cell phones and satellite emails now reach into quiet villages; television with its picture stories of the outside world entice the youth of the world with a window into other cultures their parents never knew existed; and the internet and modern transportation are making opportunities for global contact, communication, and progress within reach where a generation ago only a great void of emptiness and silence existed.
The Malawi Project has committed itself to bringing educational resources to this tiny nation in order to help its people maintain the present and cope with a changing future. Whether in the form of AIDS education seminars, conference gatherings to discuss the moral and religious climate of the nation, or in instructional seminars for medical personnel the Project has supplied teachers and teaching materials for a number of years. "Without education the nation of Malawi will continue to repeat the mistakes of their past" says Richard Stephens, Director of the Malawi Project. "Education is their way out. With the worldwide web and email opening the nation to the outside world and with the influx of travel both into Malawi and out in the world around them the opportunities for this peaceful, kind nation of people to excel."
