Malawi Africa

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Malawi Africa

• TriMedx Foundation Trips
• 2005 and 2007

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

• 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

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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.
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86 of Malawians live in villages and farm as
many generations before them.
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With only one main highway, most Malawians spend
their entire life in their birth village.
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Famine and Aids have decreased the life
expectancy from 57 years to 38 years as of 2007.
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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

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

• Blessings and Bottoms

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Blessings Hospital a private hospital right off
Hwy M1 near the town of Lumbadzi
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Blessings Hospital
Half of the world--nearly three billion people,
live on less than 2 dollars a day.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Much is Donated

• Someone has to get it working

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TriMedx technicians repair radiology and
monitoring equipment..
This now works!
Al Morton, TriMedx, St Marys of Michigan
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Donated Equipment Room
Older equipment sometimes works better than
modern networked equipment due to lack of
electrical support systems.
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Everyone helps to move an X-ray unit from storage
to the Hospital
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Equipment to evaluate includes Radiology, Lab,
Surgical, Monitoring, and Ultrasound
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TriMedx techs take Inventory and Evaluate
equipment for future repair
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Donated Equipment
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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.
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Market outside of the hospital
Help is given to provide checkups to newborns
and their mothers and to maintain hospital rooms.
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TriMedx donated fans for the delivery rooms to
Bottoms Hospital.
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Mtendere Children's Village

• Place of Peace

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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.
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A new day dawns over the Mtendere children's
village---home to orphans from various villages
of Malawi
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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.
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Brick buildings.sometimes the first such
structures the children have lived in.
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Welcome dances and songs greet all visitors .
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As well as provide activities for all.
Kelli Dottenwhy, TriMedx
Mary Larkin, TriMedx
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Clothes and Shoe donations are used to provide
warmth and dignity to the children of the
village..
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Both girls and boys attend school
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Children range from ages 2 to 18.
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Drip irrigation garden as of 2007
A Drip Irrigation Garden was started in 2004 to
supply fresh food year round for the village
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House Mothers doing daily chores
Older children help take care of younger
children.
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Each house has a house mother who is
responsible for up to 20 children
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A single well supplies all water for laundry and
hygiene needs.
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Preparing Meals at the Childrens Village is not
an easy task.
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A New Kitchen is in future plans
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Village Children attend school dailywhere
spiritual, educational and social needs are met.
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Donations
Volunteers bring medical, educational, and
recreational items for distribution.
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On the walls of the volunteer guest house are
these words.
ITS NOT ABOUT THE PLAN, THE PROGRAM, OR THE
PROJECT---IT IS ABOUT THE PEOPLE.
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Volunteers stay at the Chewa House within the
compound..
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The Vita-Meal Madilisto Food Production Plant
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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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In 2001 a food plant was built and by November of
2004, the plant began producing Vita-Meals!
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For the first time maize and soy grown by farmers
in the immediate area was being used to produce
food for the needy of Malawi. A vitamin and
mineral component blending into the mix made this
porridge meal the most nutritional meal of the
day for most Malawians.
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Volunteers help with Vita-Meal Distribution
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Each bag will feed one child for one month
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Images of Malawi..
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Lilongwe Carvers Market
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African Fishing Village
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Fish from Lake Malawi is a source of protein for
the fishing villages.
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Transportation is whatever is available
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Selling fruit along the road
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Saying Goodbye
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2007 Malawi AFC TriMedx Volunteers
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• SERVED OVER 2,762 CHILDREN WITH VARIOUS
  ACTIVITIES
• DELIVERED 15,953 IN GOODS AND SERVICES DONATIONS
• GAVE MONETARY DONATIONS OF 1355
• PURCHASED 155 MOSQUITO NETS
• PAINTED ROOMS AT BOTTOMS HOSPITAL
• PURCHASED SOCCER UNIFORMS FOR GIRLS AND BOYS
  TEAMS
• DISTRIBUTED VITA-MEAL TO OVER 1000 CHILDREN
• INVENTORIED ALL ITEMS AT BLESSINGS HOSPITAL
• REPAIRED MOBILE X-RAY UNIT

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