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When a bean farmer in rural Uganda learns a few technical skills that enable her to plant her field more effectively, she earns more money and sends her…
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A hot day with storms brewing. From the bridge between Phalombe’s Healthy Center and the village.
During my visit to a rural village with UNICEF, described in my story of the School Under the Tree.
An afternoon walk through Lilongwe’s central market.
A street in the shadow of the mountains.
Near the Ministry of Health.
A woman leaves the Migowi Healthy Center with her child in tow, in the Phalombe District of Malawi.
A woman completes the initial registration steps with her child at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe.
From the taxi window on my way to the Ministry of Health office.
At the District Health Office.
On an overcast February morning in 2012, after two weeks in Malawi and a serendipitous travel diversion, it was great to be back in Amsterdam. Before I left…
I’d like to think I had it coming. As I was boarding the shuttle bus from the plane to the terminal at JNB, expecting to transfer to my flight to Atlanta, I said to my colleague, “I would love it if there was some issue and I ended up going someplace other than Atlanta.”
In a nation with as many resource challenges as there are in Malawi, cooking meals can be a very different process from what we experience in developed nations. Natural gas-fired stoves, electricity, convection ovens – forget it. Whether it’s a kitchen in a hut in the distant, rural reaches, or in a more affluent family’s house in a major city, most people are cooking over burning wood.
A woman waits with her family members in the triage area of Lilongwe’s Kamuzu Central Hospital.
In an almost-dark hallway at Kamuzu Central Hospital.
Along the highway between Lilongwe and Blantyre, a common sight: transportation is often by foot.
Across Malawi, people cook their food on wood burning stoves. Even the Presidential residence, suspected one of the UNICEF Malawi staff, has a wood burning stove. Some for reasons of tradition, others for necessity. And with this type of cooking comes the search for fuel.
At the Healthy Center in Mpemba, a Health Surveillance Assistant (HSA) distributes Coartem for children, an artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) for the treatment of acute, uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria.
A young woman pumps water from Likalawe’s well.
One of the many positive outcomes of Likalawe’s monthly outreach clinics is the gratitude of the villagers. And few gestures could better signify this goodwill than what Agnes Sumali does for the HSAs that make the monthly trip from Mpemba.
Some of the smiling kids in the village, excited to talk to their visitors.
A mother with her children after the mobile outreach clinic in Likalawe Village, Malawi.
On the second Tuesday of each month, about 6km beyond the village of Mpemba, where the narrow road hugs a hillside over rocks and streams, there is a clinic. The clinic isn’t a flashy building with bright hallways and fancy equipment, although there is a lot of natural light. There isn’t even a building at all.
At the mobile outreach clinic, organized monthly from the Mpemba Healthy Center.
The Children’s Ward at Kamuzu Central Hospital in Lilongwe. The closest beds are in the “Red Zone,” with the sickest children and getting the highest attention from staff.
Just outside the main room of the Pediatric Ward, two mothers wait with their children.
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