Chris in Malawi this week, with Solomon Themuka, who was recognized for 10 years of service

One Sunday afternoon twelve years ago, Professor Jim Harrison and I were pushing our two-year-old sons, Olly and Phillip, on swings in the Blantyre sports club. We were talking about the difficulties of finding operating space for children with common physical impairments like clubfoot, bow legs, and osteomyelitis. We batted ideas around, one of which was building another theatre at the government hospital.  Another – and this was a long shot – was to build a dedicated kids orthopaedic hospital. The more we talked, the more detail we added, until by the time we lifted the dizzy boys out of the swings we had a mental plan of a hospital where children with disabilities and their families would be a priority, where good quality research and training could be carried out, and where God’s love could be shown. Read the rest of this entry »