Medicine Bottles For Malawi

Landfills Do Not Need Medicine Bottles!

Anyone on prescription medicines finds themselves a bit uncomfortable when throwing away so many empty medicine bottles. It is obvious our landfills do not need these plastic containers! There is enough trash going into the landfills already.

Medicine Wrapped in Paper
While first world nations throw away perfectly good medicine bottles, medical pharmacies and hospital facilities in Malawi often find themselves with nothing except torn pieces of paper in which to wrap medicine for their patients. This is often seen in rural hospitals and villages where the poorest of the nation try to live and survive. You can help to change this.

Please Remove the Labels
Save up a group of your containers when you have completed that portion of your prescription. Place them in boiling water until you are able to easily remove the labels, and the glue. Then box or bag them and send them to the Malawi Project for shipment to Malawi.

Safe and Out of Reach of Children
It will help families in a third world country keep their medicines clean, out of reach of small children, and safe while they are being used.

Send the bottles to:

Malawi Project Inc
3314 Van Tassel Drive
Indianapolis, IN 46240

Take a picture of the address on your phone and save it as a contact so you will have the address handy when you send the bottles.

http://malawiproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Prescription_Vial_Program.pdf

Other supplies are needed as well: http://malawiproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Medical_Outreach.pdf

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