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Malawi Africa

Malawi Africa. TriMedx Foundation Trips 2005 and 2007. Nestled in the South Central African Rift Valley, Malawi is known as the “Warm Heart of Africa”. Bordered by Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia, 20% of Malawi is covered by Lake Malawi(Lake Nyasa). The TriMedx Foundation. Global Impact

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Malawi Africa

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  1. Malawi Africa TriMedx Foundation Trips 2005 and 2007

  2. Nestled in the South Central African Rift Valley, Malawi is known as the “Warm Heart of Africa”.

  3. Bordered by Tanzania, Mozambique and Zambia, 20% of Malawi is covered by Lake Malawi(Lake Nyasa)

  4. The TriMedxFoundation • Global Impact • Non-Profit Entity / Established in 2004 • Partners with Medical Mission Groups • Provides technology support • Coordinates donations of equipment • Goal: To improve 10,000 lives per year through… • Equipment Service Centers • Medical Mission Trips • Local Charity Outreach Programs

  5. www.ambassadorsforchildren.org The TriMedx Foundation has partnered with Ambassadors for Children and the Malawi Project Group to impact the lives of the people of Malawi. AFC is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to serving children around the world through short-term humanitarian service trips in order to make an impact on world peace through cultural exchanges.

  6. 86% of Malawians live in villages and farm as many generations before them.

  7. With only one main highway, most Malawians spend their entire life in their birth village.

  8. Famine and Aids have decreased the life expectancy from 57 years to 38 years as of 2007.

  9. Our Malawi Projects The TriMedx Foundation partners with Dick and Suzie Stephens and Napoleon Dzombe of the Malawi Project as well as Ambassadors for Children to support the Malawi Projects. • Blessings and Bottoms Hospital • Vita-meal Production Plant • Mtendere Orphan Village

  10. Dick and Suzie Stephens, Co-founders of the Malawi Project

  11. Napoleon Dzombe “Do not do for us” …………..  These words were spoken in one of the earliest planning meetings, and became one of the founding principles for the Malawi project. Spoken by a Malawian, Napoleon Dzombe, it was given in the text of asking for help in order to learn to fish---not to be given fish. “Do not make us a nation of beggars,” he pleaded. “Help us to get on our feet. Do not do for us what we can do for ourselves”.

  12. The Hospitals Blessings and Bottoms

  13. Blessings Hospital – a private hospital right off Hwy M1 near the town of Lumbadzi

  14. Blessings Hospital Half of the world--nearly three billion people, live on less than 2 dollars a day.

  15. On the walls of the Hospital waiting room are these words…….. IT IS NOT ABOUT THE BUILDINGS, THE EQUIPMENT, OR THE MEDICINE…… IT IS ABOUT THE PATIENT.

  16. With life expectancy of 37 years and 54% of Malawi under the poverty level, it is important to have a place of healing to take care of the people of Malawi.

  17. The Malawi birth rate is 7.6 births per woman. Blessings Baby Ward Quilts are donated by the Ladies of Greenwood Indiana Quilt Group Walls Painted by various Volunteers

  18. Much is Donated Someone has to get it working……

  19. TriMedx technicians repair radiology and monitoring equipment….. This now works! Al Morton, TriMedx, St Mary’s of Michigan

  20. Donated Equipment Room Older equipment sometimes works better than modern networked equipment due to lack of electrical support systems.

  21. Everyone helps to move an X-ray unit from storage to the Hospital

  22. Equipment to evaluate includes Radiology, Lab, Surgical, Monitoring, and Ultrasound

  23. TriMedx techs take Inventory and Evaluate equipment for future repair…

  24. Donated Equipment

  25. Bottoms Maternity Hospital in Lilongwe Bottoms serves the poorest of the poor pregnant mothers who come here to deliver. Each mother brings her own food, caregiver, and garbage bag for cleanup.

  26. Market outside of the hospital Help is given to provide checkups to newborns and their mothers and to maintain hospital rooms.

  27. TriMedx donated fans for the delivery rooms to Bottoms Hospital.

  28. Mtendere Children's Village “Place of Peace”

  29. The idea started as a dream for a small 30 bed-ward in Blessings Hospital for AIDS orphans, but soon it grew into the idea of having a group of village houses for both the sick and the well. Construction on Mtendere Village (Mtendere means “a place of peace”) started in February 2004. The village encompasses a large area nestled in the Dowa Valley just below the hill where Blessings Hospital and the Madilitso Vita Meal Food Plant are located.

  30. A new day dawns over the Mtendere children's village---home to orphans from various villages of Malawi

  31. The Village as of June 2007 For the first time most of the children have a real bed of their own. They now receive heath care and the opportunity to go to school.

  32. Brick buildings….sometimes the first such structures the children have lived in….

  33. Welcome dances and songs greet all visitors ….

  34. As well as provide activities for all…. Kelli Dottenwhy, TriMedx Mary Larkin, TriMedx

  35. Clothes and Shoe donations are used to provide warmth and dignity to the children of the village…..

  36. Both girls and boys attend school

  37. Children range from ages 2 to 18….

  38. Drip irrigation garden as of 2007 A Drip Irrigation Garden was started in 2004 to supply fresh food year round for the village…

  39. House Mothers doing daily chores Older children help take care of younger children….

  40. Each “house” has a house mother who is responsible for up to 20 children

  41. A single well supplies all water for laundry and hygiene needs….

  42. Preparing Meals at the Children’s Village is not an easy task….

  43. A New Kitchen is in future plans…

  44. Village Children attend school daily—where spiritual, educational and social needs are met.

  45. Donations Volunteers bring medical, educational, and recreational items for distribution.

  46. On the walls of the volunteer guest house are these words…. IT’S NOT ABOUT THE PLAN, THE PROGRAM, OR THE PROJECT---IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE.

  47. Volunteers stay at the Chewa House within the compound…..

  48. The Vita-Meal Madilisto Food Production Plant

  49. The Vita-Meal Madilisto Food Production Plant Goal: To ensure that all children of Malawi have adequate nutritional needs met on a daily basis. Of the 2.2 billion children in the world, every other child lives in poverty. 640 million without adequate shelter (1 in 3) 400 million with no access to safe water (1 in 5) 270 million with no access to health services (1 in 7)

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