Malawi Resources

ECO Number	Title	Description
DR000158	Disaster Response - Malawi & Southern Africa	This designated account supplements the One Great Hour of Sharing (OGHS) offering to enable a significant response for relief and disasters in Malawi and Southern Africa. 9-2000158 Please visit the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA) Web site (www.pcusa.org/pda) for updates and information on the response.
E047936	Self-Help Projects, southern & East Africa	For the unemployed, displaced, homeless and physically challenged people of Southern Africa, the ministries of this project are a hopeful ray of light. The churches of Angola, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, and Uganda are involved in a variety of ministries, but they are crippled by woefully inadequate resources. Your gift will enable them to provide material assistance, comfort, self-help counseling and hope.
E047937	Children of East & Southern Africa	In the nations of Southern and East Africa, a country's children often fare the worst in times of social unrest, natural disaster or economic difficulties. In nations such as Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, (and nearly every other nation in the region), there is an alarming increase in the number of children abandoned on the streets of urban centers and of children raising other children. Your financial resources will allow PC(USA) partner churches and mission personnel to develop human, material and financial resources that will make regional and local responses possible. Funds are needed for shelters, educational opportunities, employment training, nutrition and medical assistance.Gifts to this project may also assist with necessary related project expenses that are essential to the successful completion of this project, such as mission personnel, travel and administrative support.
E047988	Self-Help Projects Livingstonia Synod	The Synod of Livingstonia, Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, continues to develop a wide variety of community-based, income-generating, and self-help projects that support women, youth, and development ministries. Farming cooperatives, women's literacy and education programs, youth and young adult development are supported through gifts to this project.
E048013	NetWorkers	The NetWorkers Malaria Prevention Program seeks to reduce the alarming death toll of malaria (the most common cause of child death in Africa) by providing insecticide-treated mosquito nets and malaria prevention education. Your gifts fund congregation-based NetWorkers projects in both Africa and Asia. The NetWorkers program includes the Safe Motherhood Project in Malawi, which provides malaria prevention resources for pregnant women.
E051611	Marion Medical Mission	Marion Medical Mission in Marion, Illinois has been a long time partner in mission with the Worldwide Ministries Division. The organization was begun by medical mission personnel and members of the Southeastern Illinois Presbytery to assist hospitals in East and southern Africa. The mission has enlarged to include major shallow well projects for safe drinking water; building and refurbishing schools and supplying and working with hospitals and clinics. As the needs of Africa have changed and grown, Marion Medical Mission has kept pace with the times.
E051674	AIDS Orphas & Vulnerable Children in Africa	Contributions help support community-based orphan care programs, providing basic needs including food, clothing, education and medical care and psychosocial development. Your gifts will support the African tradition of caring for orphans and vulnerable children in family settings rather than in orphanages.
E051716	Women's Health International	In much of the developing world women's health is undermined by traditions and practices that leave women disempowered, marginalized and living in poverty. Gifts to this fund will support a range of programs, including health services, education and economic development that improve the well being of women.
E051735	Regional Liason for Southeast Africa	Gifts to this ECO provide travel and operating expenses for the work of the regional liaison in supporting partner churches and programs, mission personnel, involvement of PC(USA) presbyteries and congregations, and organizations and mission networks in the region, which includes Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
E051771	Ministry of Hope	Contributions support community-based care of orphaned and needy children in the capital city of Malawi, Lilongwe.
E051772	Nkhoma Hospital	Contributions to Nkhoma Hospital provide general medical, surgical, pediatric, maternity, ophthalmology and TB care.
E051831	Education Department Blantyre Synod - CCAP	To support the educational needs of all schools in the Blantyre Synod, Church of Central Africa Presbyterian, Malawi.
E053503	New Malaria Initiative	Malaria kills more than 1 million people annually, most of them in sub-Saharan Africa, where malaria claims the lives of 3,000 young children every day. The 2006 PC(USA) General Assembly has responded to malaria's tragic toll by calling for a collaborative malaria initiative that will broaden and strengthen the PC(USA)'s current malaria prevention program. This effort is to begin with the formation of a special committee, to be composed of representatives of Presbyterian church partners in Africa and U.S. Presbyterians. The committee will develop an international plan of action to address the scourge of malaria and present the plan to the 2008 General Assembly. Contributions to this ECO will support the work of the proposed special committee.
E074708	Dr. Barbara Nagy	Barbara Nagy serves as a physician specializing in internal medicine and pediatrics at Nkhoma Hospital. She was a mission co-worker in the Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire) from 1989 to 1993. “Soon after becoming a Christian,” Barbara writes, “I felt God calling me to mission. It’s both an expression of my faith in Christ’s salvation and an expression of God’s love for all. I feel privileged to be a Presbyterian because of the church’s rich heritage of mission and also because of the many missionaries I have known who have nurtured and inspired me in my faith.”
E200324	Rev. Deborah Chase	Debbie Chase, an ordained PC(USA) minister, is an administrator and lecturer at the University of Livingstonia, College of Theology, a seminary of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian. In a region where the member-to-minister ratio is 5,800 to 1 and growing, the training of pastoral leadership is a critical need. Debbie has been instrumental in assuring quality, accredited education for current and future leaders of the church in Malawi.
E200380	Dr. Sue Makin	Sue Makin is an obstetrician-gynecologist at Mulanje Mission Hospital in Malawi, and has been under appointment since 1987. Three areas of special interest for Sue include repairing vesico-vaginal fistulas, preventing cervical cancer through visual inspection of the cervix and early treatment of precancerous lesions, and working diligently to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity in Malawi. Prior to her assignment to Malawi, Sue worked for eight years at the Good Shepherd Hospital near Kananga, Democratic Republic of Congo.
E200385	Jim & Jodi McGill	Jim and Jodi McGill have been under appointment since 1995. Their most recent assignment began in 2000 in Mzuzu, Malawi, where the average life expectancy is only 35 years. Their work through the Synod of Livingstonia of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian is focused in health care and clean water and sanitation work. Jim serves as coordinator of protected water and buildings coordinator. Jodi serves as coordinator for primary health care and has also taken on the work of interim coordinator for the AIDS department.
E200411	Dr. Martha Sommers	Martha Sommers is the only long-term doctor at the Embangweni Hospital in Malawi, serving a large rural area in a country where 25 percent of the population is HIV positive and one in four children don’t live to see their fifth birthday. “I’ve grown so much by journeying with Malawian friends,” says Martha, “and thank God for how they have picked me up when I have tripped, made sure I was not alone with illness, and taught me to enter into grief and grab joy.” She guardedly believes this past year’s marked drop in malaria and malnutrition is the success of ongoing prevention programs such as the distribution of malaria nets.
E310702	Education Projects, Malawi
E862147	Livingstonia/ Community Health Training	The most effective way to deliver health care in remote rural areas is to train community health workers who live in the villages. These workers require several segments of short-term training & supervision to assure that training is appropriately implemented. Funds will allow community health workers to be brought to a central location and housed during short-term training courses.
E862149	Embangweni Hospital Malawi	Embangweni Mission Hospital is a 133-bed hospital in northern Malawi. It serves a catchment area of 90,000 people. Your support of this institution will help provide medicines, charity care, fuel, staff training, staff housing, ambulance, laundry renovation and water line improvements. Gifts to this project may also assist with necessary related project expenses that are essential to the successful completion of this project, such as mission personnel, travel and administrative support.
E862703	Water for All	Without clean water, good health is impossible. In many parts of the world people suffer chronic and life-threatening illness and children die needlessly for lack of accessible clean water. Funds for this program provide technical assistance, equipment and training to develop sources of clean water in needy communities.
E862706	AIDS Crisis Overseas	Gifts support church and community-based programs that address poverty, behavior and other root causes of AIDS transmission. Programs include skills training, education, income-generating activities and Biblically based behavior formation and change. A particular focus is women and families.
E862726	Mulanje Hospital/ Malawi	Mulanje is the only church hospital in Blantyre Synod and is located 15 km from the border of Mozambique. The hospital is expanding its program to improve home-based care and other primary health activities.
E862733	Ekwendeni Hospital	Funds are needed for equipment and to support and expand the integrated care and prevention programs at this hospital in northern Malawi.
E862756	Zomba Theological College - Malawi	Zomba Theological College was founded by the General Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian at its present location in 1977, bringing to one location the efforts of the three existing theological colleges. With the joining of the Anglican Church in 1978, candidates are now trained for ordination in the 4 Presbyterian synods (Blantyre, Nkhyoma, Harare, and Livingstonia) and in the Anglican Council of Malawi
E864142	Relief & Devel. Projects; Malawi Christian Council	Gifts to this ECO aid the Christian Council of Malawi's work in relief and development projects throughout the country. Malawi has had a major influx of refugees from the ongoing civil strife in Mozambique. The United Nations High Commission on Refugees depends highly on the work of the Council in providing shelter, health care and food for these people.
E864823	Projects Office, Blantyre Synod	Gifts to this ECO aid self-help development–oriented programs of Blantyre Synod that are coordinated by this office. A true physical and verbal Christian witness is carried out through the ongoing programs of: Functional Literacy, Youth Sustainable Agricultural Training at Namingadzi Farm, Practical Learning for Living School at Domasi Mission, a Child Survival Program serving children orphaned by AIDS, a general outreach to communities to encourage and facilitate self-development and relief.

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