by aku1203 | Feb 7, 2010 | Community Updates, Mgona, Blog
The success of the Mgona WOW program has been growing in the past several months. Evidence of this is found in the extraordinary tale of eight women who come from as far as the Salima road at Mchoka village near Malikha School (20 km away) to be a part of WOW Mgona...
by aku1203 | Apr 26, 2010 | Community Updates, Mgona, Blog
Recently Rita Prins, WOW Executive Director, visited the Mgona Community. Here is an exert of her report. As I walked the paths that weave around the closely built mud brick houses in Mgona I wondered what type of family situations I might find in the patient’s homes...
by aku1203 | Nov 30, 2010 | Community Updates, Mgona
In Mgona construction of the Community Child Care Centre has reached an advanced stage with all that remains is roofing and plastering, flooring, doors and window frames to be fitted. The Mgona CCCC is very encouraging as we have seen a complete participation of all...
by aku1203 | Apr 13, 2011 | Community Updates, Mgona, Blog
Through the ministry to widows in Mgona, Somebody Cares a WOW strategic partner in Malawi, has seen many women come in desolate and despondent and after skills training, encouragement through the Word of God and plenty of care, there has been tremendous transformation...
by aku1203 | Nov 26, 2012 | Community Updates, Mgona, Project Updates, Blog
When 28 year-old Margaret Jackson told her husband she was HIV positive, he abandoned her and took their two children with him. Alone, sick, and with no way to afford rent, Margaret had to leave the only village she had ever known to find shelter in the peri-urban...
by aku1203 | Jan 17, 2014 | Community Updates, Mgona, Project Updates, Blog
Many people in Lydia’s circumstances would have given up hope a long time ago. After losing her husband in 2003, Lydia was left alone in the Mgona slums to care for not only her own five children, but four of her brother’s orphaned children. As a single, widowed...