Chiotha Village, Malawi … The rays of the African sun seem to penetrate through the thinning white hair on the back of my head, and tiny beads of sweat trickle down the back of my neck and gather near the small of my back. The rainy season is coming in the sub-Sahara, but first […]
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One Can Little Imagine the Scene One can little imagine what it must be like for a mother to spend 17 years of her life carrying her child on her back everywhere she goes. Yet this is what happened to Afilo Mkwapatira’s mother. Afilo is 17 years old and comes from the Kuiza Village
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A Great Day For Everyone They came that day from all corners of Salima District in eastern Malawi. It was not only a big day for those with mobility problems, but it was a big day for the blind, albinos, the deaf, the dumb and any other disability known to man kind, including even
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I Would Die and He Would Be Helpless Name: James Jonna Age: 12 years Sex: Male School Class 4 Village: Kapire * Tribal Authority: Nsamala, Balaka * At
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He was once a beloved soccer player in his village area of Dzoole Village. Even today he is a musician and artist. It was not always like this. Samuel Benzi has not always had to crawl on the ground like “a snake in the bush.” He is a fourth born of the seven children from
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The Malawi Project continues to enlarge its programs of assistance in other districts of Malawi. One of the program additions is the Kuthandiza Osayenda Disability Outreach in Salima, Malawi. The Kuthandiza program was started because of the disability of its director, Mr. George Chimpiko Banda who was born with disabled
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“He has a gentle and open nature like very few people that I’ve ever met,” reports Mark Thiesen an American working in the southern part of Malawi. Mark has been part of a missionary family in Malawi since he was a small boy. His parents were missionaries in the northern part of the nation and
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Likisina Khumbulasi was born thirty years ago. She learned to walk as a small child but at the age of six she became very sick. She nearly died from the unknown illness which paralyzed her legs and hand. After sometime she learned to use her hands but remains unable to walk. Likisina
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