 Three people died after a landslide hit a village in the room-free district in northern Malawi. A state of emergency has been declared a Malawi after a tropical storm, Freddie, struck the country for a second time at killing more than 100 people. Rescue workers described being completely overwhelmed by the rainfall and mudslides. The cyclone is one of the longest running in history, but has caused havoc across parts of South Africa. I am personally so devastated. Sometimes when you just pass by these many caskets, you cannot help but shed tears. This is southern Malawi. Whole neighborhoods have been swept downhill sites, washed away by the storm that won't stop. There are plenty of houses, plenty of houses, but they are all gone. My name is Mike Kachimanga and I run a number of charity projects here in Malawi. At the moment, we are rebuilding houses for people that were affected by cyclone Freddie. We all know this year Malawi was hit by cyclone Freddie and more than 100,000 people were affected. So at the moment, we are building houses. I am standing in one of the houses that was affected and in front there is a house that we have done for one of the victims in this village. Being a resident of Blanta, I experienced, I know the magnitude which the cyclone affected people here. People lost their lives. More than 100,000 people lost their homes. They were homeless. They were displaced. That's why we decided to make a move to at least build houses for people that were affected by this cycle. A lot of people were homeless. That's why we decided it's okay, let's come up and make a plan and rebuild these houses. Welcome back to the YouTube channel. It's your favorite village boy, Mr. Ghana Baby. Still here in Malawi, the warm heart of Africa. I know my time is really limited, but I'm trying as much as possible to bring you stories that you've never heard of, the untold stories of Africa. And this is why I'm telling you guys, like this video, share these videos. I mean, subscribe and be part of this awesome channel to be inspired, because that is the main reason why we are on this journey. The challenges are many, but we are not giving up just because of you. And stories like yours are the reason why we travel all the way from our countries just to come to towns and villages to tell inspiring stories. I just want to tell you, I've heard your story and I just want to tell you, you are amazing. Thank you, brother. And thanks for impacting lives in this community and your impact will forever live on. Amen. Thank you and welcome to Blanta, my brother. Thank you for making your time to meet me. Thank you for having me. I'm very humbled. I'm very humbled. No, I mean, what you're doing is humbling. That's how we came. Okay. Listen, what I read about you is like you're building houses for people that are affected during Slack on Friday. Is that true? Yes, that's absolutely true. How many houses have you built for people? We have built so far about 60 houses, but our plan is before this year ends, we should do extra 164. Like in total, by the close of this year, there will be two zero four. You just woke up and decided to build for your own people. Is that the only thing you've done in this village? No, we have done a lot in this village. As you can see here, this is like a free preschool. Free? Yes, it's a free preschool. They're not paying anything? Nothing, bro. This is a free preschool that we have done in this village. There's almost like 100 kids that are learning here because in Malawi, we have got a challenge. The government does not give us preschools. The government does not give us preschools here. So kids, they're just growing up to maybe when they're six, that's when they enroll in primary school. So I thought like, oh, come on, that's a government. It is only those people that have got money that they are able to send their kids to those private preschools. That means those kids, they're able to do well in schools. So I was like, here there's a gap because in villages like this, you go to primary school, you find someone 14 years of age, then grade one, then grade two. Yet you go in urban areas, you see maybe seven years old, then grade five because their parents are able to send them to preschool and they go high. That's how I was like, okay, fine. We put up a preschool like this. So at least that gap will be covered because education is power, man. The more we educate people, the more we will in the future try to maybe to elevate poverty. What are you building next to it? Here, we are building a clinic. This is a clinic, man. It'll be like under five. Yeah. And of course, there will be also major services that will be handled there because this village, there's no free clinic. This is absolutely free. It's going to be a free clinic. They'll be accessing medical care for free. People from here, when they're sick, they have to travel maybe 15 kilometers to access medical care. What motivated me is because there's one guy that works here. Yeah. The wife was pregnant. Yeah. And at night, she almost lost her life. They had to carry on a bicycle. Oh, my goodness. 15 kilometers. Sounds like, oh, man, we need to do something about this. Otherwise, we'll lose lives. That sounds like, okay, fine. Let's put up a free clinic so that people can access your building houses. You're built free preschool. Yes. You're building a clinic. Yes. Can I ask you what really inspires you to do what you do? The love of God, man. I cannot lie. I'm born again Christian and my Bible, my Jesus, teaches me to love my neighbor as my brothers. So I just take love. I put it in front. Because there's no means, man, in this life to accumulate so much worth yourself. You die, you leave everything behind, man. It's not a purpose driven life. After what I'm doing here is purpose driven. I know I make God happy, man, by doing what I'm doing here. You know, you're making God happy, but you're making me happy too. You know, because seeing Africans supporting Africans, Africans bringing fellow Africans out of poverty, Africans impacting in the lives of other Africans. It's something that we need to encourage in Africa. Exactly, man. Exactly. You know, I always tell people, you see these two hands, God gave you these two hands for your purpose. One is to help yourself. Yes. And the other hand is to stretch it to help others. You've really inspired me, man. Thank you, my brother. But what do you do? I mean, I'm an agro dealer. So I export produce to most of South Africa. I'm just an agro dealer. So your profit from your agro? Yeah, I take some, not all of it. And I use it in these things. I don't take 100% of the profit and use it. But some. So this clinic, sure in the coming two, three weeks. To be done? It'll be done. Two, three weeks, it'll be. So you employed the people from the community to work on it? Yes, to work. Yeah. They're the one building themselves. Sorry? The people from the community are the one building the... No, I find some people from around here. Okay. But most of them, we are taking them from up there because most of the people here do not have that skip. Yeah. So these people are coming from up there. Every morning, there's a truck that brings them here to work, like 6 a.m. Yeah. Like 6 a.m. So you see, we just divide, like this would be like, that's the reception, what I'll be, people will be collecting their drugs there. Yeah. So maybe a doctor will be in here, maybe a nurse who puts, we wish to put some beds in here. Maybe like, when someone is really, really sick and maybe they're waiting for an ambulance to take them to a general hospital. Yeah. So they will also be put here. This is really inspiring, man. Really, really inspiring. How do you feel whenever you see kids in school, knowing that it's because of you, that's why they are in school? I feel very, very motivated to do more. Makes me sleep at night and I feel very motivated to do more, man. Because we can't just watch people suffer. No, we can't just watch people suffer. We need to, the little that we have, we need to put it in and help others. Yes, man. Yeah. So like this guy, these guys, they're coming all from there. And they come and work. And even some of the houses, they're the ones that build. As you can see, those boys, they're carrying those doors, they're going to put in the houses that we are building. So, I mean, how many families are living in one, like in a house? Is it a whole family, one house for one family? Yeah, one house, one family. One house, one family. Yeah. It's one house, one family, one house, one family. We love to check out one of those houses around here. Yeah. They're all around here. They're all around here. They're all around here. And also, apart from this and this, we give people water also. You can see that boho there. There was no water here too. Yeah, we did, we did that boho here also. What have you done that I've never asked you? Because I feel like all I knew was you building houses. I mean, and now you told me you're building a preschool. What, what at all have you done that I have no idea about? That you're doing in this, in this community, in this community also might be offering bursaries to needy, needy students. Because in Mala, we are lucky. Our primary schools are for free, but our secondary schools, they are not for free. So imagine people in the villages, people in, there's so many people in needy families, they are not able to fund for their education. So we are also offering bursaries. There's a lot of kids that want, but apparently we're just dealing with about 102. But I know there's so many that want. Yeah, there's so many that want. We'd love to go check out some of the houses you're building. We're going to take you from there. Yeah, that's fine. The breeze in here, so fresh man. Yeah. So, cheese. So like behind there, there's something that was before. What's the house they used to live in? That was hit by the cyclone in front here, that's one of the birds. And him is the chief for this area, like a tribal chief. Tribal chief. So it was affected also. It was also affected. Yeah, so we built him this house here. Yes, I'm full. Madzuka has no English that much. Oh, okay. Yeah. So behind there, there's like the disaster affected house. And then this one, he's moving, he's going to move in tomorrow. So you did this during the, like after the cyclone, that's when you started or you were building for people before? Oh, wow. This is where he, wow, he used to live. So this is before, this is now. He used to live here. Now we have done that. So almost every family that have been there, people that are so needed, that cannot, no matter what, they can never be able to put up a house for themselves, no matter what. They're really, really poor people that cannot even afford a bag of cement, zero, zero. And I'll say, God bless you. How many people were affected by it? A thousand. I think it was a hundred, something thousand in Blanta alone. So the demand is just too much, but we can't be able to help everyone. Thanks for everyone. So how are you selecting people that you go for? We do, we do a survey. Now we go to them and we analyze the situation. We interview them, check out them. So that these are really, really down people. They can't do anything. Some are widows, some are orphans, some are wards. The people that have nobody to support them, we target those. And some people too, that lost their families? Yeah. Yeah. So this is a fresh one. Tomorrow he's going to move in here. I can guarantee this house, even 50, 70 years, it'll still stand because of used cement and everything as you can see it. Because this was small like clay? Because they don't have money for cement. So they just use clay to build village houses. So you've got 60 of this in this village? Not in this village, this village of 1020. There's another village we did, we did 40 here of 1020. But I'm going to move to more villages, more villages because I've got 15 villages that I need to address. At this by November, God willing then it will be done. Do you need help? Exactly man. The numbers are just anomalous. There's thousands, if it didn't be checked online, you see that there's more than 100,000 people that are affected here in Blanta alone. But Cyclone did not only hit Blanta, Cyclone hits a lot of districts here in the southern region. But I'm only doing Blanta because that is what I can manage right now. Is that where you're from? I'm from the long way, but I've lived here long enough. Sometimes I can just say I'm a Blanta person because I've lived here more than 10 years. But there's people in Insanjia that are affected. There's people in Jiladzoo that we affected. We cannot be able to reach out to them. There's more than 100,000 of people that we affected. But look, we're only right now addressing 100 something or 200, which is far below. I'm going to put his number on the screen, his email on the screen. If you get touched or inspired of what he does and you really want to be part of this course, please just do so. And a brother, what has been the major challenge in terms of what you do? Finances, yeah. That's the one challenge because I've got a team of young people that are willing to do this work. I've got 136 volunteers here in Blanta that come on my office every day just to come and help these people. They're young people that I'm not even paying. They just have the heart to help. Meaning, if we have got more finances, we can do more. Has the government reached out to support to build more? Reach out to me? Yeah. No. Nobody in my life has reached out to me to say what to help you do. So how do you do it then? Is there any other people that are also supporting you? I've got friends, Taiwanese, the Tucci friends, very good people. Their love is just so amazing. They've been with me since because I've been doing this since 2018. Yeah. So these people, very loving people, but nobody in Malawi has ever come in and support me. I think that needs to be changed. So fellow Malawians, fellow Africans watching this video, please. There's one man trying his possible best to change the community and I believe that without support, we can do better. If you had a chance to change one thing in Africa, what would it be? The narrative that we can't do it because we've got the potential. Even Malawi, I know we're like third poorest, but we've got potential to do amazing things. We Africans, we're very good people. We are blessed people, man. Our land, our continent, they're so blessed. So the narrative that we always have to wait for, like the white or the white, come and help us to do things, that is so bad because us Africans on our own, we can do very big things. We can do very big things on our own. We just have to believe? Yes, we just have to believe. Your message to Africans watching us right now? My message to Africans that are watching us, we've got the potential. Let's just eliminate the element of jealousy among ourselves. We should not degrade our brothers. Let's come together as one and do big things together. That is my message to my fellow Africans. And I will tell you guys, come support a brother, help him build more houses, and I know that your impact will forever live long. My name is Wadamaya. 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