Visiting a Village Hut

Unless you live in sub-Sahara Africa ... Unless you live in one of the poorest parts of the world ... Unless you have spent time in a Malawi Village ...

Yes, unless you have been there, are there, or spend a lot of time visiting there it will be impossible for you to comprehend what it is like to live in an African Village Hut in poverty like nothing else in the world. Words will describe it. Pictures will show it. Try as you might it will be hard to imagine there are people who suffer in silence in one of the poorest nations in the world.

In a mult-part series we have tried to describe in pictures and text the story of a grandmother who is caring for a number of grandchildren after the death of their parents. You will see the rooms of her house, the grain storage facility, and her orchard and garden.

To follow this series go to: https:// http://www.malawi-travel.blogspot.com/

Malawi Project Assists MIBI

 
 Malawi Project Assists MIBI in Mill Project


With substantial funding made available with contributions through the Malawi Project, a maize mill has been constructed in a remote area of Malawi north of Dedza. 

The mill is part of a program that includes an international school, agricultural training center, and various other programs to help develop the Christian community in Malawi, and train men and women to be self supporting. 


The site is being developed by MIBI, an outreach ministry of the Green Valley Church of Christ in Noblesville, Indiana.

A Warm and Fuzzy Story

It's almost like a fairy tale story. Pretty little girls. Brand new dresses. Women all over America who care, and work to bring hope to girls who never have a new dress, and never, never have anyone who brings them a present from America. See the story. It appeared on the NBC Nightly News on December 21.

http://dailynightly.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/20/9584376-little-dresses-bring-hope-and-friendship-to-malawi?chromedomain=usnews

NBC News Tells About Little Dresses

Girls in new Dresses

After meetings, early in 2011, near Detroit with the founder of Little Dresses for Africa, Scott Gordon and Dick Stephens carried 75 of the dresses to Malawi in July for little girls. The dresses were actually made from pillow cases. The little girls seldom receive any gifts, and a new dress is something many of them never get in their entire lives.  NBC Nightly News carried a story about Little Dresses early in 2011, and on December 20th the Nightly Network News (NBC) will report a follow up story. Part of the content for the story was filmed in Malawi a few weeks ago.                                                                               

Bell Looks at Closed Doors

"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." 

- Alexander Graham Bell

Ground Breaking for Hospital

Ground breaking for a new hospital near Mkutu Village, in central Malawi, has taken place, and a number of pictures have been posted on the web.

The hospital is a co-operative effort of the Dzidalire Development Agency, and the Malawi Project.

  
Pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/malawiproject

Mama Kadzamira prepares her talk

Evidence of the Little People

          We had heard about them for years. Once they were called the pigmy tribes, others called them the little people. The famous writer of African stories, Wilbur Smith, called them the sand people. The stories said you could find drawings on the cave ceilings in the Dedza area that would convince you they were real ...if you knew where to look. We made the trip to Dedza, found some school boys and their teacher in a remote area, and headed up an unmarked path to see if we could locate the drawings. Our seach and the result can be found on the Malawi Project Travel Blog. See for yourself if they were real. http://malawi-travel.blogspot.com/

Drawings on the Cave Ceiling Made by the Little People