Lilongwe, Malawi … In Malawi, the cultural norm emphasizes the importance of children respecting and caring for their parents. From a tender age, children are expected to help their parents when their physical abilities decline and impair their ability to care for themselves. As a relatively young nation, Malawi lacks a comprehensive safety net for its elderly citizens, particularly those residing in rural areas. Recent calamities have strained government budgets to their limits. When famines or other crises strike, widows and orphans are among the first to face hardship. Action for Progress and the Malawi Project places a strong emphasis on supporting this vulnerable segment of the population.
Grain Train, a humanitarian food aid organization based in Nebraska, recently dispatched a shipment of rice packets to the Action for Progress (AFP) distribution hub in Lilongwe, Malawi. AFP subsequently distributed the rice to several villages in the vicinity of the hub. The villagers were immensely grateful for the timely provision of essential food, and their expressions of joy were genuinely heartwarming. Senior group village head Mngwenje expressed profound gratitude for the timely assistance provided to orphans and widows.
Along with the food being sent by contributors the Malawi Project is also raising funds for food to be purchased in parts of the country where the harvest was sufficient to extend food assistance. This helps supply local communities to have needed funds for their survival and can put food assistance on site in days rather than the three months required when food is shipped in from the outside. To help with these purchases please send your check or money order to: Malawi Project, 2421 Golfside Drive, Lebanon, Indiana 46052, or send funds electronically via: https://www.malawiproject.org/donate/