The focus of Kindle's programs is to provide to orphans and their caregivers with Health, Education, and Community Development all supported by a strong spiritual and social foundation.

Health and Nutrition

Sound body, mind and soul! Studies show that Health, Nutrition and Learning are correlated with one another. Kindle offers a 1/2 day clinic twice per week. Patients receive general outpatient care for minor injuries and ailments. These may include minor cuts and bruises, small infected wounds, redressing of wounds, cold, flu and minor respiratory infection treatments. The nutrition program includes a 1/2 day feeding program once per week. Recipients of the both programs are orphans and their care givers. Along with these to programs, Kindle also goes mobile throughout the week with its Home Based care program, teaching families and communities about sanitation, water, and a variety of other health and nutrition topics.

"...where they were drinking the animals were bathing."

Kindle asked the community what was necessary and they responded with, "Katawa Clinic." Katawa Clinic provides assistance to more advanced health issues. The main areas of focus include General Outpatient Care, Nutrition, VCT (Volunteer Counsel and Testing for Aids/HIV), ARV (Anti Retrovirus for HIV/AIDS), Pediatric Care and Limited Maternity Care. Scheduled to open by January 1 of 2008

The Health and Nutrition Programs are lead by a team of Malawians which includes a Clinical Officer, Nurses and various assisting staff. The team also includes a German Missionary Nurse who focuses her efforts on Pediatrics. Donate Now

Education Program

In a land where the nearest school may be a 15 kilometer walk away, children are rarely provided a basic formal education. School fees continue to rise while those dwelling in the rural communities of Malawi are reaching daily incomes of only $1 (USD) per day.

"He wants to be a journalist and report on social issues like poverty."

Recently the head master of the local school, Namanda, came to Kindle and asked for help. The partial blocks of cement they were calling the school were in horrific state and the community needed to do something. Kindle decided to get involved.

Kindle has been making efforts to put at least 20 orphans through secondary school each year. There is a much greater demand for more assistance in the community. Hoping to gain more financial support and eventually hire staff to coordinate the program, we have great hopes of what the Education Program could soon become! Donate Now

Community Development

When walking only a few steps across the room for a glass of water, it is easy to forget that there are others who are spending the entire day in search of a safe, clear glass of H2O. Some will never find it. Some only find such water in their deepest of dreams. Kindle's Community Development program is making these dreams a reality for thousands of people in the rural communities.

Community Development does exactly what the name says. Ultimately it is the community taking ownership of a project that makes it work. Here is how it works.. A Community has a passion for a project, let's say a bore hole (well). Cicel, the coordinator on staff at Kindle, brings it to discussion within the organization. Kindle supplies the solar panels and cement, but from there is where it gets exciting. The community makes the bricks. The community does the labor, The community does the daily devotions. The community may even appoint a treasurer to the project. The community develops. Now people in the community can enjoy what once seemed to only be real in a dream; Safe drinking water, clean water for bathing, and a water supply for irrigation during the dry season. It is truly the community that deserves the credit!

"The community develops."

Aside from bore holes, Cicel and his staff are also working on food storage buildings, agricultural/irrigation projects, and Kholezani, a program designed to help individual families own a project that will benefit them and the children they care for. Donate Now

Spiritual and Social

"...they provide a moment of hope for the children..."

He's known as Abusa to the people of Nanjoka and the surrounding Kindle areas. And it's well deserved since the Chichewa title translates as Pastor. He travels hundreds of miles in a week on a motorbike that looks...umm...used. That bike has hundreds of stories, journeys, and positive life changing experiences beneath its wheels. Abusa has been the catalyst behind most of the experiences. Although his modesty would easily have him say "It is God who is the catalyst, not me," and he is correct. God is using Abusa, Petro and large group of volunteers in the communities to touch lives.

The program has developed into a variety of effective services. The youth groups, sports and games target the children directly. They provide biblical training, teaching in areas of HIV/AIDS and how to live pure healthy Christian lives. Sometimes what they offer is just the chance to be a kid again. To not have to worry about food, shelter or water. But a chance to run around with friends, trying to score the next goal. they provide a moment of hope for the children, even if it is for just a moment.

There is another side to the spiritual and social programs that is having a great effect. Abusa has empowered Petro and the volunteers to do a majority of the work with youth while he embarks on a new mission. He is setting off to train the community leaders and orphan-caregivers. It comes with the saying, "Hang out in a barbershop long enough, you're bound to get a haircut." In a land full of spiritual warfare and traditions that are far from healthy we'd like to know who is giving the haircuts and what kind. Donate Now