Desperate Shortages Create Lines

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 on a recent shipment probably made the difference between life and death for the patients.

The Malawi Project supports the Sacred Promise Clinic. It is the fulfillment of a promise Dr. Chibaka made a number of years ago to commit himself and his resources to helping the poor, as well as the orphans and widows in his native country. He returned to Malawi after practicing medicine in South Africa for a number of years, and began working with the Malawi Project is some of its medical outreach programs in the central region of the country.

New Tractor About to Be ...

Lebanon, Indiana ... Excitement is running high as Agricultural Aid and the Malawi Project prepare to unveil the new walk behind tractor for third world agricultural needs. The new unit follows the successful production and distribution of a number of popular V-Tractors in Malawi, Africa.

In coming weeks the specifications and capabilities of the new units will be published for other aid groups around the world to begin the purchase and use of these units.

Funding Needed, Trailers on the Way

   Late in April this website (see below) related the story of a teen-ager from the Western Hills Church of Christ in Austin, Texas who has helped secure 30,000 school textbooks for distribution all over Malawi. A warehouse was made available until the end of April in Austin, but at that time the shipment needed to be on the way. The shipper graciously prepared and shipped the 3 trailers of textbooks accepting that the payment for the shipping, nearly $38,000.00 would be forthcoming.

   Your help is needed. The Western Hills Church and the Malawi Project has raised over half of the needed funds, but time is getting close and the additional funds are needed quickly.

     Please send your contribution to: Malawi Project, 1356  5th Avenue, Terre Haute, IN 47807

Maasai Warrior With A Cell Phone

Dr. Peter Diamandis is the Chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation, a group of forward thinkers who seek to lead the world in supporting and encouraging radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. He is also the co-Founder & Chairman of the Singularity University, a Silicon Valley based institution that counsels the world’s top enterprises on how to utilize exponential technologies, and incentivized innovation, to dramatically accelerate their business objectives.

In a recently recorded forum he advocated a rather profound conclusion about the rapid advance of communications in recent times. He stated that a Maasai Warrior today with a cell phone can communicate better than President Ronald Reagan could. (The Reagan Presidency extended from 1981 to 1989). For many people living today this time in history was somewhat like yesterday.

What does this mean for humanitarian work? It means the opportunities to expand aid programs into other parts of the world are expanding. It means good accountability and communication is within reach. It means people have a greater interest and knowledge of other places, and more and more are traveling there. In the first century the disciples of Jesus were commissioned to take His message “to the uttermost parts of the world.” Today, programs designed to help people in distant places have open doors of opportunity and interest that no previous generation has ever experienced. We have no excuse for not going to the uttermost parts of the earth to help a neighbor in need.

The future belongs to our generation. It is now. It is today. It will be even bigger tomorrow. If you don’t think so, ask the next Maasai Warrior you pass.

Canadian Aid Groups Assist Malawi Project

Through a program of co-operation two Canadian aid organizations are offering assistance to the Malawi Project for its work in Africa. Universal Aide and Compassionate Warehouse, both groups headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia recently shipped a 20-foot trailer filled with Bibles, Commentaries, and other religious material for distribution through the Namikango Mission and Maternity Hospital. The Malawi Project has been given a warehouse on the mission grounds in order to execute a major program of distribution of medical, agricultural, and educational supplies throughout Malawi.

      The shipment almost appeared to be a trailer load of bananas, since the boxes being used were actually produce boxes originally owned by Dole, one of the world's largest suppliers of salads and bananas.

A Lot of Literature

Leroy, Dick and Nancy look at a tract

14 million. It is hard to imagine printing 14 million tracts for Africa. Yet, this is the goal recently reached by the Regency Church of Christ located in Mobile, Alabama. Written by the late John Thiesen, the tracts focus on Christian principles, and the needs of the African people for the right relationship with God. The number of tracts is nearing the same total as the population of the entire nation of Malawi, slightly less than 16 million.

Tract # 14 million reaches Indiana

The tracts are shipped on the trailers of medical, educational, and agricultural supplies by the Malawi Project and distributed throughout the nation of Malawi.

Banda Moves into the Presidency

In a move that is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa the Presidency of Malawi has moved to the female Vice President, the Honorable Joyce Banda.

The action came suddenly when President Bingu wa Mutharika suddenly died of a heart attack on Thursday the 5th of April.

Constitutional Law mandates that in the event of the death of the President, the First Vice President moves into the position. Banda was sworn into office on Saturday April 7th.