10 K "Ride for Malawi" - Saturday, May 29 at 10:00 am

Our team will be riding bicycles (or walking/jogging for non-bikers) on Saturday, May 29th from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon to raise funds for our clinic renovation project (see previous post May 1).  

Our route is as follows:

• Start at Cornwall Town Hall
• Proceed West on TCH and turn onto Ferry Road
• Take Ferry Road to York Point Road and turn left
• Follow York Point Road back to TCH
• Return to Cornwall Town Hall via TCH

We would very much appreciate your support.  You are welcome to join us for the ride (bring your kids), encourage us along the way, or provide financial support through sponsoring one of us.  Donations can be made at the Cornwall Town Hall during the ride.  Donations can also be dropped off at Maritime Christian Bookstore, Wholeness Family Clinic in Crapaud, or mailed to Malawi Team 2010, PO Box 90, Crapaud, PEI C0A 1J0.  Cheques should be made out to EMAS Canada and receipts will be issued for gifts for $ 20.00 or more.

EMAS Canada Malawi Team 2010
Bringing hope, healing, and dignity to the people of Malawi, Africa - Aug 26 to Sept 12, 2010

Our mission
Our partner in Malawi is Lifeline Malawi, a Christian medical ministry founded by Dr. Chris Brooks of Calgary, Alberta.  His clinics in Ngodzi and Kasese serve a large population of rural Malawians with no other access to medical or spiritual care.  Our mission is to assist Lifeline Malawi by bringing hope and healing through medical care, teaching, challenging village leaders to improve the health of their people, and offering spiritual encouragement to Lifeline Malawi staff and local church leaders.
 

Clinic upgrade
Lifeline Malawi medical staff regularly provide medical services in this primitive clinic structure.  We as a team have been challenged  to restore hope and dignity to this village by renovating their clinic.  A brick and steel roof structure will be more permanent, water proof, provide privacy for patients, and help improve the delivery of much needed health services to these villagers.  The anticipated cost for reconstruction will be around $10,000.00.
 
How you can help
Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a community to send a humanitarian team abroad to help make the world a better place.  We appreciate your support through our fund raising activities, as well as through your thoughts and prayers.
A donation of just $ 2.00 will purchase one brick toward the reconstruction of this clinic.   Income tax receipts will be issued for donations of $ 20.00 or more by our sending mission, EMAS Canada.  Please write cheques to “EMAS Canada” and  earmark them Lifeline Malawi Project.  Mail them to: EMAS Canada, PO Box 820, Stouffville, ON L4A 7Z9 or you may wish to make a donation online at http://www.emascanada.org/donatenow.htm and choose "Malawi - Lifeline Malawi"

Thanks for your support and prayers

We will keep updating this site as our planning and fund-raising proceeds.  Please check back often.  Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers.  We still have 2 vacancies for MDs on the team and we pray they will be filled soon.