Malawi October 2016 Team, Day 1

After many days of travel, the team is delighted to be in Madisi, Malawi!  As we receive updates, we will update the blog.  Please continue to keep the team in your prayers! After settling in the team met with the Youth & Young persons ministry host to discuss the...

Congrats Mercy!

Mercy Chikhosi Nyirongo is the project manager at ZOE, she has her Bachelor’s degree in Nursing from Africa University, and her Master’s degree from Walden University. Recently, she founded the organization Wandikweza that trains community health workers...

Malawi June 2016 Team, Day 6

We are now headed to the Chakhaza Clinic which is a government clinic.  Based on numbers from last year it looks like we are seeing fewer patients this year. We were told by a clinician that they may not be going to a doctor because they do not have the medicines that...

Malawi June 2016 Team, Day 5

We are joined this week by a physician from Lilongwe, 4 nurses, 4 clinicians and 2 surveillance people (they are considered crowd control!)  Consider what it means to individuals who have had little to no health care in their lives and now imagine a village having an...

Malawi June 2016 Team, Day 4

Today was the first clinic day, the team worked alongside Malawian clinicians, nurses as well as a doctor from Lilongwe. They saw 140 patients with problems ranging from cough, indigestion to a gentleman with a probable TB case, who went to the hospital. Afterwards we...

Malawi June 2016 Team, Day 3

Today the team spent the morning and afternoon with ZOE, that was after the President and Vice President came through town in a motorcade.  The President waved to the crowd as the people lined the streets. Everyone on the team enjoyed the ZOE projects and were so...