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ABOUT US
In southern Malawi, and precisely in Balaka, Father Mario Pacifici, Monfort missionary, arrived here thirty five years ago and founded with Cesare Castelli the "Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust" which now has nearly 700 workers. The Cooperative operates within four areas of development:- People find jobs in the 33 activities of Andiamo, including health care, education, vocational training, construction, agriculture, mechanics, sports, and last but not the musical one. Precisely in this context born the Alleluya Band, a band created in 1978 as a church choir and now became the point of musical reference throughout Malawi. Our representative in Italy is Orizzonte Malawi onlus, that use the valuable collaboration of many associations:
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Category Archives: Health Care
Comfort Clinics Complementing Balaka District Hospital
Balaka district health office has commended comfort clinics for complementing its efforts of striving to achieve quality health service delivery. The district health officer Bertha Chikuse said with its limited resources, government health facilities alone can not manage to meet … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, News from Malawi
Tagged Alleluya Band, Andiamo Comfort Clinics
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Graduating Student Nurses
Students from St. Lukes College of Nursing have sat for their final exams and are waiting for their test results which should be announced in a couple of months. We’ve temporarily hired four of them to work with our nurses … Continue reading
Doing Charity Comfortably
Imagine a scenario where you are asked to go to Cape Maclear in Monkey bay for a weekend. Your lodge, they tell you, will be ten mitres from the lake. In fact, you will be staying right in the lake. … Continue reading
Meet Khumbo Kasambala
We hired a new clinician last month. His name is Khumbo Kasambala and he joins us from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre. Khumbo has been working in our Paediatric Out-Patient Department (OPD) with our other clinician – Gerald Kaitano. … Continue reading
Rest In Peace Peppino
For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me … Continue reading
Posted in Culture and Sport, Education, Health Care, News from Malawi, Social Development
Tagged Peppino Nosari
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Bishop Stima follows his flock
On Saturday, 22 February 2014, we were in Mangochi to witness the installation of Bishop Montfort Stima as the new Bishop of Mangochi Diocese where we belong and on Monday, 24 March, the new Bishop followed us to see what … Continue reading
Comfort Clinics: At the Service of the Community
Our involvement in the field of health care is born of the teachings of Jesus Christ and of Catholic Social teaching. We know Jesus placed a particular emphasis on care for the sick and outcast – such as lepers – … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Social Teaching, Comfort Clinics, Jesus
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Andiamo not Idle
Today, 13 March 2014 we went around to see what is happening around Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust (AYCT) and this is what we have seen: Pictures by: P.K.B
February Saw an Increase in Upper Respiratory Infections
February was another busy month at Comfort Clinics. Overall, we treated 5,672 patients, which is a 5% increase over January. The majority of the patients were in our Out-Patient Department (3,838). The number of Upper Respiratory Infections surpassed the number … Continue reading
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Tagged Comfort Clinics, malari, upper respiratoty infections
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Reliving 8 November 2013
It was on 8 November 2013, a day before Alleluya band celebrated their 35th anniversary in Balaka, when Fr. Mario Pacifici collapsed at the ground where the celebrations took place. Since that collapse, he was not seen in public neither … Continue reading