After organizing the successful Swaziland AIDS Assistance Project, Australia based Antonette Gaffney, now, focuses her attention on Malawi. She has created the World AIDS Day Calendar, which went on sale on 10 December 2009 at a cost of $20. It is currently available for purchase on eBay. The proceeds from the sales of this calendar will [...]

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I am glad to report that the English-Chichewa and Chichewa-English dictionary project, run by the Foundation Heart Malawi, now has its own website. I would like to congratulate Dr Steven Paas, the Director of the Foundation Heart Malawi, and all the people that work with him, on this achievement. Online presence will open up new [...]

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A Karonga based friend of mine has informed me that people are fleeing from earthquake hit Karonga in fear of a new quake which has been rumored to occur either today around 20.00hrs (Malawi time) or tomorrow the 24th of December 2009. He says people are running for their dear lives to destinations such as Mzuzu [...]

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A series of earthquakes and aftershocks of magnitudes ranging from 4.6 to 6.2 have been hitting Karonga district in Malawi since the first week of December. Initially, a one-year-old child died and several people were reported injured due to the tremors. Most of the mud-and-thatch houses built along the epicenter crumbled leaving hundreds homeless.

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On Thursday, 10th December 2009, Dr Louis Nthenda, Chomora Mikeka and I attended the launch of Nu Skin’s ageLOC Future Serum product at the Yokohama Arena in Shin-Yokohama. More than 10,000 Nu Skin sales representatives from across the country attended this colorful event – Keiko Suzuki, who paid for our tickets, being of them. The [...]

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As the forex crunch continues in Malawi, I continue to get overwhelming requests from my Malawi based friends to help them with payments for used cars here in Japan. Basically, these people ask me to pay the Yens this side and in turn, they promise to deposit an equivalent amount (in Malawi Kwacha) in my [...]

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Today is World AIDS Day. This day is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV. Organizations around the world are joining together to promote awareness and education of HIV/AIDS through a variety of events.

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