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August, 2009

AT LARGE

You gotta hear this story! One of the faculty members is building a house near an outlying village.  She had a container arrive with building materials, clothes and food this week.  The problem is that there are no locks on her doors. She has a couple guards at night.

This morning, when she arrived at the work site, some clothes and food were missing and one of the guards showed up wearing some of her clothes.  She took the other guard and a couple guys (and girls) to the thief's house and he became violent and was kicking and hitting these guys and girls. So, they left and she called me to bring the police "quickly".  I drove down to the dorms to pick up one of our students, who is a policeman, and he grabbed two other students, one of whom is a member of the army.
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August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment | View or add comments
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EPILEPSY Treatments

Recently, a campus gardener that works in our lawn and we are responsible for employing, came to us asking for help with his sister who was evidently suffering from epilepsy.  Wilfred is the son of Ernest Chikazunga who has worked for the college for a few years as a laborer and instrument repairman (he was a police band member years ago).  We pay Wilfred a salary plus his automotive school fees and medical costs for his immediate family.

So, we had recommended that she come to the African Bible College Clinic to see a doctor and get medication.  He came once, but hadn't followed up yet to actually get the medication.  He then heard about a certain "doctor" in a village near his home village some hours south of here.  She had "cured" two people he knew of through her prayers and herbal remedies.  He wanted us to help pay the transport cost to get her to the doctor.  
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August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
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Raising School Fees

In two weeks our students will be returning from their long break - it isn't summer here, but the holiday is the same.

That means they must come up with about $800 for the first semester tuition, room and board.  In a country where the average annual income is about $200, this is a stretch for many, if not most of them.  We have many students that are children of middle class and wealthier class folks in Malawi, but we still have many from villages who have little or no income.
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August 9, 2009 | 0 Comments | View or add comments
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