MATEKESA FAMILY & USA SUPPORTERS TO MALAWI SPIRITUAL AND PHYSICAL FULFILLMENT

Jesus clinic Ministries & Matekesa Family/USA TEAM and Little Rock Chapel Church USA

P. O. Box 1366, Kachere, Blantyre

Email: nyirongojacob2000@gmail.com

Telephone + 265 995622683 Mobile:  +265 (0) 992295562   Fax: + 265 (0)

 Being doers of the word and not hearers only as we share Christ through Holistic approach both spiritual Nurture and Physical support so that souls should have life and life in abundance

Let the things that burn the heart of God also burn my heart.

Jacob Nyirongo (male), Patience Matekesa (female) and Esther Mmanga(female) are three volunteers who have been working with Chikondi Matekesa Family and USA supporters in fulfilling the dream of the poor souls in Africa Malawi in food security, education, health & Nutrition, Sponsorship and Spiritual Nurture as the main goal
 

Our main mission is to reach out to 3,000.000 souls with the gospel and food items within the next 2 years for all regions of Malawi which is a land locked country with 21 million people. 

We share the bible as a SPIRITUAL WEAPON and call for more to accept Jesus as their lord and personal savior 

We share practical love of Christ in action with basic needs such that when we share Christ its simplified

With Matekesa family in USA we have been collaborating in serving Malawi community through Christian Mentorship, supporting human basic needs and Counselling 

We are excited to work with Little Rock Chapel Church in USA in future to promote Gods love, spread the gospel, Christianity broadcasting, friendship, support Malawi Community through food shelter, clothing, beddings, shoes and many more items

Looking forward to making a difference with Little Rock Chapel Church

In the past 2 and half years we have reached out to 41,076 people as follows

  1. Christmas Support for the past two years has been greatly impactful where the 16 poor families were selected for both Zomba and Blantyre District supported with 1.9 Million Kwacha and 5 students were paid for school fees and many people were supported
  2. Cyclone Freddy disaster where the Matekesa family and USA Team supported us with 1.6 million Malawi kwacha where we shared Christ love in word and deed as paid rent for 5 homes for the Brocken homes and supplied food items and kitchen items for the souls that were in great pain 

  3. Picture for Support for the past two years has been greatly impactful where the 16 poor families were selected for both Zomba and Blantyre District supported with 1.9 Million Kwacha and 5 students were paid for school fees and many people were supported

    Mary Sukali - An old woman with a poor family where the kids go to school but lack necessities 

    Rose Odala - an old lady very poor and appreciated and said God should bless the matekesa family and all other donors for this because she has never seen in her life time 

    Margret Boidi - She said no body has ever done this to us God bless you

    Oliver Ayiness - a Muslim lady who said Jesus is lord after receiving this she said may this be continued even to other poor families

    Other extra 16 families were reached with other items like sugar 

    Widowed woman with 3 kids and a grand mother

    We were able to preach and share counseling through radio station where more than 1.5 million people were reached

    The Project Christmas Angels has been so successful and the communities including chiefs welcomed the Project angels of Christmas and asked if it would be continuous for all festive seasons and monthly basis to walk with the communities and organize bible studies groups too plastic for house where this old woman has been sleeping on water and now she finds rest in the paper provision

    the team that distributed the love of God

    Cyclone Freddy disaster where the Matekesa family and USA Team supported us with 1.6 million Malawi kwacha where we shared Christ love in word and deed as paid rent for 5 homes for the Brocken homes and supplied food items and kitchen items for the souls that were in great pain 

Here is a shared report for the 2023 disaster cyclone Freddy as follows:

Manja Camp in Blantyre had 11674 individuals now its 576 participants that got support from Matekesa Family and Friends worthy MK1,900.000 (One million nine hundred thousand kwacha) it was on 13th March when the disaster just started specifically at three ways soche hill manja area in Blantyre Malawi.

It is believed that more dead people were not discovered and the land has been declared as a grace yard cause now to did the bodies may prove futile with the rotten bodies.

The Support from Matekesa  Family and Friends has done great impact equivalent to MK1,900.000 (ONE MILLION NINE HUNDRED THOUSAND KWACHA)

The trail of destruction can be seen from Manja Camp, where many survivors anxiously wait for the return of their missing friends and relatives but can hardly identify the decomposed bodies for closure’s sake.

“The mudslide has left us grief-stricken and poorer. We have no home to go back to when the storm is over. My father and three brothers are gone with the water. None of them has been found. If they are dead, I just want to see their bodies,” says Etiness.

On Sunday, Malawi’s Department of Disaster Management Affairs (DoDMA) reported that Cyclone Freddy has severely devastated 14 districts in southern Malawi, with 476 people confirmed dead, 918 injured and 349 missing. By March end 2023

Etiness and her neighbors personify the agony of about 508,244 displaced people scattered in 534 camps.

They feel lucky to have escaped alive, but fear the risk of preventable disease outbreaks fueled by absence of water and sanitation infrastructures due to the destruction caused by the cyclone.  

Etiness shudders to imagine surviving the tragedy that robbed her of his father and siblings, only for her or the baby in hand to succumb to the raging cholera outbreak.

Since she arrived at Manja camp, women and children have been jostling for clean water from a borehole drilled for about 3,000 schoolchildren and 44 teachers. They lose two to three hours waiting for a turn to fill their buckets.

As taps in the vicinity constantly run dry due to power blackouts and pipelines damaged by flash floods, the fierce scramble for water forced some to skip bathing, washing their clothes, washing hands and cleaning kitchen utensils.

Equally overwhelmed are the school’s 56 pit latrines, with about two in every three widely shunned because they have no doors.

During the visit, the few latrines that guaranteed users some privacy were mostly soiled, wet and foul-smelling, exposing the crowd to sanitation-diseases diseases, especially the raging cholera outbreak. Blantyre is the epicentre of the fast-killing bacterial disease that had claimed 1,682 lives from 54,677 confirmed patients by Monday.

Etiness laments, “I was already terrified of cholera when I arrived at the camp because the outbreak claimed the lives of my ten neighbours before the cyclone possibly because we were drinking untreated water from a rocky wellspring uphill, where the mudslide began.

“We urgently need water treatment chemicals to protect ourselves from the cholera outbreak that has hit our city the hardest.”

Until last week, Etiness Charles’ youthful family was the envy of their Three Ways community on the steep slopes of Soche Mountain, south of Blantyre City’s central business district in Malawi.

The 25-year-old mother of one was utterly delighted that her husband, a motorcyclist for hire worked day and night until they built a house they called their home for two years. The two-wheeled taxi cost commuters a dollar for a trip from their mountainside settlement and Limbe business town downhill.

 “I was happy that my husband’s hard work had paid off. At least, we had a roof over our heads,” she says.

However, they lost everything except the clothes they were wearing on the rainy Monday noon when the densely populated hillside crumbled amid severe mudslides caused by Cyclone Freddy in Southern Malawi.

Etiness breaks down into sobs when asked about the disaster that claimed about 100 lives in the battered setting, displacing more than 5,000 people who fled to Manja Primary School at the foot of the deforested mountain. Matekesa Family supported her family with relevant items

Breastfeeding a baby on her lap at the camp, she narrates: “Earlier, we heard on the radio about the cyclone. For two days, heavy winds and rains battered the city non-stop until the mountain couldn’t absorb more rainwater.

“Then we heard a deafening crash as if the mountain was crumbling. The earth trembled. There was a muddy smell in the air. We heard the roar of water racing downstream as if a helicopter was flying too close to the ground. In no time, we saw mud and rocks racing downhill, burying people and houses in their way. There was little time to escape and many people were crushed dead in their homes. Some are still trapped in the mud.”

Etiness run uphill as the landslide ripped her clustered community.

“From the high ground where my baby and I stood in fear, I saw a huge rock crash my home to rubble. We ran to Manja because it was too risky to remain uphill since it was still raining, foggy and windy,” she states.

The camp has had lost of victims around 11000 now reduced figures to around 2366

said well-wishers and non-profit organizations have provided a lot of support in the form of food and clothes.


-Reported by Jacob Nyirongo/Esther and Patience Matekesa Volunteers Concerned Citizens at Manja Camp 

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-We also reached out to Mzuzu nursery crisis which keeps the HIV/Aids baby born who are neglected and kept at the camp so we supported them with food and other items 

We are excited to work with Little Rock Chapel Church in USA in future to promote Gods love, spread the gospel, Christianity broadcasting, friendship, support Malawi Community through food shelter, clothing, beddings, shoes and many more items

Looking forward to making a difference with Little Rock Chapel Church