Malawi - Eagles

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• Jun.18, 2013

  Life-saving support from the local church

   

  

  Grace Mwase is a 33 year old woman with 5 children, aged 14, 11, 5 and 8 year old twins. She tested HIV positive in 2011 and her husband was found to be HIV positive in 2010.

  Her last born is also HIV positive because she breast fed her for two years because she didn’t know her status. Her first born also has HIV because she was the one looking after her brother, the last born when he was sick and had sores all over his body and she didn’t wear gloves when caring for him. 

  This family situation was a heavy burden to her and she was bitter with her husband whom she believed passed the virus to her because he used to travel to different places for business and he had affairs with different women in those areas. He had hidden his status from her when he discovered that he was HIV positive.

  With the absence of a support group in their area, Grace had to carry her burden alone and it was eating her up emotionally. 

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• Jun.18, 2013

  Waiting for Christmas!

   

  

   

  We have a fantastic opportunity that we are delighted to offer to Connected Churches who support Eagles.

   

  In 2012, a group from Felixstowe visited Eagles in Malawi. This group have been raising money for Eagles through community concerts, raising over £50,000 in 2012 alone.  

   

  The latest production, called Waiting For Christmas, has been made into a DVD and CD of exceptional quality and includes interviews with staff and villagers involved with the Eagles project, footage of the project in action in Malawi, and joint performances from children in Malawi and the UK.

   

  We would like to give you copies of this DVD and CD at no charge to either sell to help raise additional funds for Eagles, give away to members of your congregation and community, or use within services/events, all to raise awareness of Eagles and the work of Tearfund in Malawi. 

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• Apr.25, 2013

  Bringing home the bacon - update and prayer

   

  

  Greetings to our valued supporters from the Eagles team and the lovely community members we serve from different parts of Malawi. We thank God for you for responding to a noble call to be part of a group of people who want to bring change and hope to the lives of people who are food insecure, living with HIV/AIDs, lacking portable water, and spiritually poor, through your conitinued financial support and prayers.

  The last three months has been a busy period for both the communities and Eagles team. During this period is where farming is at its peak as most community members rely on rain-fed agriculture to grow most of the crops. For the Eagles team, it is also a busy period where annual project reports and audits are done. In Beka, Mtanyamanja, Nyasa, Jasi villages and the whole Chikhwawa district, community members have experienced better rainfall this year which has not been there for the past five years - thank you for your prayers.

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• Mar.7, 2013

  Harvest under threat

   

  

  Dear supporting churches

  Greetings to you all our supporting churches out there, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  We are in the midst of the rainy season in Malawi. It goes up to end of April. Heavy rains have been pouring across the country. We would like to thank God for answering the prayers that were offered to God for the rains.

  However, the rain has not come without its challenges. These challenges include strong winds, floods, waterborne diseases, lots of mosquitoes and malarial incidences, crop pests and diseases. Nevertheless, our work with the local churches and communities is still continuing amidst the challenges.

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• Dec.12, 2012

  Mtayamanja Village

  

  Mtayamanja village is located on the eastern side of Lengwe National Park in Chikwawa district. It is 21 kilometres to the nearest Private hospital and trading centre, 51 kilometres to the Government hospital and 6 kilometres to the nearest Primary school. They do not have a borehole and so are accessing water from a neighbouring village and hand dug wells. The population is around 430 and there are 86 households.

  Eagles started to work with Mtayamanja village in 2011 and community members have engaged in crop diversification as well as afforestation as part of their climate change adaptation initiatives. 

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