This site is now my private website about my experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi in the middle 1960s and the third leg of my Peace Corps commitment, the education of folks around you about your experience and to educate others about your country of service and the Peace Corps experience, with lots of information about Malawi, especially the photograph collection of various RPCVs, including mine, Jack Allison's fantastic public health songs, Malawi Children's Village, the Rotary Project for MCV plus information and the various Peace Corps, Malawi and General Africa and World links pages, but minus the official FOM stuff.
A Friend of Malawi
Welcome to the former Friends of Malawi website. To make it clear, there is a new FOM web page found by clicking HERE. One of my joys and appreciations is the willing use of some of my very favorite photographs on the new Official FOM site. Please visit the new site but return to this one, too, as I will be adding new links and information, from time to time. Should RPCVs want their own photo page on this site, great. Please send my your best and favorite e-pictures and provide a description of each image. I have tons of web-space and would welcome collecting a fabulous photo gallery of various RPCVs or a set of links to your pages. I know the FOM site would like that too, so, two is better than one or none.
To paraphrase a famous song, "Times, they have changed". This site is now my private website about my experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Malawi in the middle 1960s and the third leg of my Peace Corps commitment, the education of folks around you about your experience and to educate others about your country of service and the Peace Corps experience, with lots of information about Malawi, especially the photograph collection of various RPCVs, including mine, Jack Allison's fantastic public health songs, Malawi Children's Village, the Rotary Project for MCV plus information and the various Peace Corps, Malawi and General Africa and World links pages, but minus the official FOM stuff.
As an aside but an important one to me, it has been my total pleasure to have provided this site to and for FOM, since May of 1999, at no cost to FOM, with the great support form NDSI (see below for more information). I totally appreciate the great support, complements, requests to use my pictures from the Galleries, etc., from many FOM members and others, over the years. When asked, I always say yes, with my complement of being asked, in the first place. The FOM Website has been my labor of love, that's for sure.
Thanks, too, for all the great Guestbook Postings too, with some 420 plus postings to date. The FOM and AFOM site has had over the 57,500 visitors since my taking over the site from the originator, Don Lotter, Wil and Jane's son, in July of 1999. What a great number! I am proud of it.
Your former FOM WebGuy returned in August of 2004 from the 25th anniversary of the National Peace Corps Association Conference in Chicago. The co-hosts, the Chicago Area Peace Corps Association, did a fantastic job in organizing a very successful conference. Thanks to all for their great job! A fun time was sitting/standing about 20 feet from Peter Yarrow, of PP&M, earlier today, singing "Where have all the flowers gone" and "We shall over come". Way cool!
Please enjoy your visit to my website and return often.
This site is designed to be viewed with your PC settings of 1024 x 768 pixels and ‘Small Font’. Should you be using lager settings, some labels might appear to 'word wrap'. Everything still works, it is just a little bit bigger. If any of the above links are defunct, or if you know a Web link that should be on my AFOM page please send the URL and description to: John Strain AFOM Web Guy. I look forward to serving the site for some time to come. Please let me know your thoughts, comments and suggestions. Thank you, in advance.
Guestbook / Message Posters: Please note when you click the Private Message box, it will only be seen by me, the AFOM Web Guy, and not the casual visitor or old friend you are trying to hook-up with. If you need to contact me, John Strain, which is totally okay, please do so via this direct email link by clicking HERE. Private postings confuse many other visitors, so, I wanted to share this information to visitors. Thanks in advance.
Please sign my Guestbook Please view my Guestbook, you may have a message!
If you are looking for old friends, general information, etc., please do not click the Private Message box when posting a message to the Guestbook, just post it.
I hope this helps connect old friends, the main purpose of this feature. Way Cool!
FOM had the over 41,000 visits, from 7/4/1999 until the problem on 5/1/2003. The site and visit counter were restarted 6/7/2003 and last updated 8/28/2005. This site was created and managed with Microsoft FrontPage 2003. This Site has been hosted at no cost to FOM or AFOM by Nnovative Data Systems, Inc., Newport News, Virginia, since 7/4/1999. NDSI perform a number of risk management and home health care technology related software applications and consulting services. Their site can be viewed at clicking on their green name, above. Should you have a need, want to learn more or want a demonstration, please email the old FOM WebGuy HERE. One hand washes the other.
