Kalemba Community Hospital is a health institution that operates curative and preventive sectors. Here we diagnose and treat patients according to their medical problems and in severe diseases, we admit them in our wards. Being a limited health institution we refer some conditions to a bigger hospital whenever we feel we cannot manage. Currently we have the following departments: OPD, Pharmacy, Dental, Laboratory and Environmental health. At each level, data is collected and sent to the concerned upper departments.
Kalemba has 9 nurses, 3 clinicians, 18 patient attendants, 8 hospital attendants. Attached is the copy for services conducted here at Kalemba Community Hospital.
SERVICES AT KALEMBA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL
1. OPD (OUT PATIENT DEPARTMENT)
We conduct Out Patient Department from Monday to Saturday. During this time we diagnose and treat patients. Severe diseased patients, we admit in our wards. Per day we see more than 60 patients.
2. MATERNITY
Maternity covers both antenatal and postnatal. We conduct antenatal services on Thursday and during this time mothers receive knowledge on care plan, they are screened and also to identify mothers at risk. The last month we had 58 deliveries.
3. PMTCT
This is also a component in HIV-AIDS management where pregnant mothers are screened and thereafter if found positive, prophylactic drugs are given to both mothers and the born child. Currently we have 105 patients on PMTCT.
4. ART CLINICS
This covers provision of anti retro viral therapy to those who are HIV positive and current we have the following figures. Total number of clients on ART is 1302, defaulters 163. Due to the increasing number of clients we are now providing the drugs on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
5. VCT
This is also a component in ARV management where people are screened after undergoing counselling. Currently we have 120 people who tested positive to HIV for the past 3 months.
6. NRU/OTP/SFP
We do conduct NRU/OTP/SFP as programmes to fight malnutrition. NRU for severe malnutrition and OTP and SFP for moderate malnutrition. Currently NRU has 1 patient admitted but we had 10 admissions last month.
7. UNDERFIVE CLINIC
Children under five of age do undergo check up every Wednesday. During this time they are examined and also receive medications. There is also provision of vitamin A and vaccines.
8. OUTREACH CLINICS
We do conduct outreach clinics for antenatal and under five clinic. We have few centres for this service.
JACARANDA CHILDREN'S HOME FOR ORPHANS
The Children of Jacaranda
MISSION STATEMENT
We, sisters of Our Lady our main spirituality is to show the poor “How good is the good God”
We have heard the call of Jesus and we want to dedicate ourselves in spreading the good news. Jesus showed us what it means in God's eyes to be human. Everybody matters. No one is beneath me and He identified himself with those considered the least.
GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
- To provide home and to give integral development of the whole person.
- To help the children till they are able to assist themselves.
- To assist the young person to become reliable and responsible for the development of the country.
- As Sisters of Our Lady we want to show the poor how good is the good God and to be other Christ in spreading the good news.
Jacaranda House started in 1963 as a hostel for colored boys and girls who were the needy people those years. It was run under the trustees of Blantyre Limbe girls Hostel.
In 1965 the sisters of our lady took over from the previous trustees.
As the time goes, in 1985 Jacaranda house started accepting orphans and in 1986 it became completely the home for orphans. To answer the growing need of orphans because of HIV / AIDS pandemic which have hit the country.
Jacaranda house accepts needy children of different conditions i.e. those who have lost father, mother, or both and are without proper guardian, and / or guardian is unable to support or to provide the necessary material care.
We as well accept children without considering their denominations and they are coming from all parts of the country.
The children stay here during school time and during school holiday they go to their relatives e.g. uncles, grandparents and some they go to foster parents.
We have children of different ages the youngest is eleven months, the small ones especially in nursery school we keep them here but the relatives are allowed to visit them. At the moment we have forty-two children, twenty-eight girls, fourteen boys in the home.
The majorities of our children are in primary school. In addition to this number we have five children who are in secondary schools (high schools) and three in different colleges in the country and we have one boy who is aspiring to become a priest.
ACTIVITIES IN THE HOME.
| • Parental care • Teaching • Study supervisor • Religious educations • Hand work • Dancing lessons • Singing lessons • Sport • Drama and poem training | • Gardening • Rearing chickens • Administration • Shopping • Communication with donors • Book keeping • Kitchen turn • Prayer turn |
MANAGEMENT BOARD / STRUCTURE
Currently Jacaranda children's home is being run by four sisters: Sr.Agnesia Menik Pawarti, Sr.Regina Smart, Sr.Delia Chikumbu and Sr.Linda Viano.
We have thirteen members of staff. We are as well working hand in hand with Jacaranda Board members and people from Social Welfare (government organization)
The main financial help is coming from the Congregation of the sisters of Our Lady and we have some donors outside the country through our own fellow sisters and some well wishers within the country. It's recently we have a group of former Jacaranda working people called ”Friends of Jacaranda” who are as well helping the home in different ways.
We do not get much aid from the government except free town tax and imported goods we got without paying custom duties.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Good number of children who had been brought up in this home have high good jobs in the country, some are taking big responsibilities in the country and some are running big businesses in the country. Good enough they have formulated their group called “Friends of Jacaranda” and they have become good donors of the home.
We have three children who are in various colleges and one who is aspiring for priesthood Marianist Congregation in Karonga.
In February 2008 he will be going to Zambia for one month and later proceeding to Kenya for further formation. We keep him in our prayers.
STELLA MARIS SECONDARY SCHOOL
Stella Maris Secondary School hall & class room
A BRIEF HISTORY
Stella Maris Secondary School is situated about 6 Kilometres from Blantyre City Centre along the Chikwawa Road . The school is surrounded by a forest of Malawi 's common indigenous and some exotic trees.
In 1959, Sisters of our Lady ( Roman Catholic order) closed a large institution in Holland called Stella Maris – meaning Star of the Sea – from which the present institute in Malawi took its name. Actual building of Stella Maris Secondary School commenced in January 1960 and assistant of the General Superior, Sister Theresiana came over from Holland the same year to officially lay the foundation stone near the entrance gate to the school.
Two years later, the college, as it was called, was greatly honoured when His Excellency, the Life President, Ngwazi Dr. H. Kamuzu Banda, officially opened it.
Stella Maris College for Domestic Science was first and foremost established for the sole purpose of “educating” married women whose husbands had been sent overseas for specialised courses in Civil Service administration. It was intended to prepare, otherwise not too ready a woman for challenges and demands of their “changed” husbands after a spell overseas.
Archbishop Theunissen a Dutch Missionary of Blantyre Archdiocese, went to Holland to seek assistance of keen sisters who could take up the challenge above. He was approached by the then Provincial Commissioner in Blantyre , U.H.J. Rangeley with this task.
In January, 1961, Stella Maris College of Domestic Science opened its gates to 21 married women whose husbands were already overseas on training with a view to return home and take over civil service administration from retiring Colonial Officers at the dawn of Independence .
It is a grant aided school and the proprietors are the Sisters of Our Lady.
The following courses Home management, Tailoring and Commercial Course were offered to married women and girls. In 1967, T3/T2 upgrading course in Home Economics and English to Cambridge “O” Level was introduced. At this point one had a Teachers College running by side by side with Secondary School.
In 1975, the first group of girls sat for the Malawi Certificate of Education Examinations (M.S.C.E.). From then on the school has every year presented candidates for the Malawi Certificate of Education Examinations.
VISION
Stella Maris Secondary school has a concrete purpose to teach and equip the future leaders of Malawi . We believe that it is not all the students that will go for higher education. The school is here to offer direction to other possibilities through career talks and counselling. All pupils at this school are selected from all over the country.
Stella Maris Boarding School
MOTTO :
Liberty through Education!
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