Penny being trained to use the new cold coagulator for prevention of cervical cancer. She will help to train people at Kindle later this month.
It has been a week of farewells for us, one planned and one unplanned. Continue reading “A Week of Farewells”
Henry is one of the secondary students supported by Kindle. This interview was done by Steve Cook of Equitas.
A common method of travel in Malawi: Sitting on a pile of bags of maize, firewood, etc. in the back of a flatbed truck.
After months–actually years–of planning, preparation, and application, we can finally begin distributing anti-retroviral drugs for HIV care at Kindle. Up until now we’ve only been able to provide HIV testing and counseling on-site. Then we have been loading people into a truck and driving them to town to pick up their monthly allotments of medicine.
I’m getting ready to leave Kindle in the hands of a new director, Joseph Kandiyesa, so I’m starting to get nostalgic about my time at Kindle. About half the staff works at Katawa Community Clinic, where over 150 patients are seen every day. Here you can see the patients filling the porch and sitting in the shade outside, waiting their turns.
It’s really hot and dry in Malawi in October. Rains start in December and finish in April, so by now we have had six months with absolutely no water. And yet are tomatoes and this green maize almost ready to harvest, thanks to the hard work of the people who Kindle helped to organize into treadle pump irrigation clubs.
When Jeputala village saw their neighbors selling fresh produce in the middle of the dry season, they asked Kindle to help them start a treadle pump irrigation club. With guidance from Kindle and one of our partners, they got organized, made a down-payment on a pump, and started a garden. Continue reading “A Tale of Two Organizations”
We have always felt that caring for physical needs is central to our work. But we have also found that it’s a tricky business here in Malawi… Continue reading “A Tale of Two Villages”
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