Devastating images of mums and babies being found dead at the side of the road prompted an Irvine church member to launch a campaign to provide vital health care in Malawi.Ian Young from Fullarton Church is teaming up with the congregation in his bid to set up a clinic and accommodation for a clinical officer in the little-known village of Kanyanda.He said: “Half the population of Malawi is under 18.“You hear the situation of a girl in her teens, whose time has come and she is struggling, looking for help and she goes for help and on several occasions people have found a mother and child dead in the field.“Many are left to their own devices as a lot of their parents have died through HIV - it's the loss of a parental generation.
This shouldn't be happening.”Retired engineer and dad-of-three Ian has become involved in the project through long-time connections with Alex Mndala, a now-retired Anglican priest.He said: “We have had a long-standing friendship and met in the 90s when he was here for a conference in Dundee.“I then went out to Malawi after being invited to his son’s wedding but his son had a car accident and the wedding didn’t happen.
I have been four times to various locations in Malawi.“Alex asked for support to put a tin roof in his church in late 1990s after the government decreed that no public building could have a thatched roof, it needed a tin roof.
He got to know people in Kanynda as people were travelling to his church, travelling by bicycle or on foot for a couple of hours.
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