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Jenny
The Pendulum Project, the non-profit organization with which we will be partnering, interviews and photographs people affected by HIV/AIDS in Malawi to raise awareness in the United States about the impact of the virus abroad. Jenny is pictured in the ba
Date: 06/25/2006
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Luzi Volunteers
Several of Luzi's home-based care volunteers celebrating our arrival in Mitunda, the site of Luzi's headquarters.
Date: 06/26/2006
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Luzi Volunteers Gathering at HQ
Luzi's staff gathering to greet us as we arrive in Mitunda. Luzi Orphan Care Organization has a huge staff of volunteers who donate their time generously to support the organization's various programs. Many are men and women living with HIV/AIDS and/or
Date: 07/01/2006
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Ellen Greeting Children
Executive Director of the Pendulum Project, Ellen McCurley, greeting children at Luzi Headquarters in Mitunda.
Date: 06/26/2006
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Jamie with Luzi Team
The Luzi team gathering in cramped quarters for their regular organizational meeting.
Date: 06/26/2006
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Daycare at Luzi
Children, mostly orphans, participating in lessons served up daily by volunteers at Luzi's daycare program offered to kids too young to attend primary school. Public secondary education requires substantial fees, and so Luzi offers training in vocational
Date: 07/02/2006
Views: 9193
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Luzi Development Plan
Luzi's leadership has formulated a 3-year development plan for expanding and improving its programs and services. LuziCare will assist the organization in addressing several of these high priority goals.
Date: 07/01/2006
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Luzi Programs
Luzi here lists the activities with which it is most concerned, including adequate provision of resources for the needs of orphaned and vulnerable children in the community and home-based care for the sick. Community-based organizations in Milawi are muc
Date: 07/01/2006
Views: 15837
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HBC Team
A group of home-based care volunteers who work in the rural countryside surrounding Mitunda. These women travel from home to home in the communities where they live to diagnose the sick, deliver medicines, administer treatment when possible, etc. Furthe
Date: 06/26/2006
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Rural Travels
Rural travels in Luzi's large zone of operation, or catchment area. All together, Luzi services a population of approximately 150,000 people living in 395 separate villages spread out over an area of 95 square kilometers.
Date: 06/26/2006
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Kangoma Health Centre
Kangoma Health Centre, one of several clinics that services communities outside of Lilongwe. There are two healthcare facilities, Mitunda and Mzimba Health Care Clinics, centrally located in Luzi’s operational area. At these clinics care is substandard,
Date: 06/28/2006
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Kangoma Health Centre Interior
Inside Kangoma Healthcenter. When the clinic was built approximately 30 years ago, the facility was wired for electricity, but the countryside still awaits electrification. In this photograph you can see the wires dangling from the ceiling. There is no
Date: 07/02/2006
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Existing Ambulance Bikes
One of several aging bicycles used by Luzi’s home-based care team. Without stretchers, the volunteers cannot transport the ill to the local clinics, let alone the central hospital. The new bicycles will be equipped with stretcher carts and medical kits.
Date: 06/29/2006
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Partners in Hope
When necessary, the Luzi volunteers will transport the sick from Luzi’s operational area to Partners in Hope in Lilongwe, a privately funded health care clinic operated by one of the Pendulum Project’s partners. The clinic is well staffed and well equipp
Date: 07/03/2006
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Paradiso Home-Based Care
Training of Luzi’s home-based care volunteers will be performed by Colby College students alongside trained volunteers from Paradiso House Home-Based Care, another community-based organization located in central Lilongwe.
Date: 06/23/2006
Views: 4954
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Treadle Pump
Children operating a treadle pump to irrigate farmland during Malawi's dry season. Simple irrigation systems such as these allow communities to extend the growing season long after the last drop of rain falls from the summer sky. Located near a stream,
Date: 06/28/2006
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Irrigation System
An irrigation ditch.
Date: 06/28/2006
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Agriculture Team
Several of the women responsible for cultivating Luzi’s land. Luzi manages to produce enough food in common to supply its bakery and feed several hundred orphans from Mitunda and surrounding communities.
Date: 07/02/2006
Views: 9343
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