Charlotte Gott
Mulanje Mission Hospital
P.O. Box 45
Mulanje, Malawi
cgott@africa-online.net

Charlotte Gott was appointed in January 2004 to service at Mulanje Mission Hospital in Malawi. Mulanje Hospital is part of the health care network of the Blantyre Synod of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian.

Charlotte’s primary assignment is to help health care providers in Malawi address the serious and growing problem of cervical cancer. The method used in the developed world to prevent cervical cancer, the Pap, is not feasible in many parts of Africa. So Charlotte will be promoting VIA, a low-cost and low-tech method of visualizing the cervix for any precancerous lesions and simultaneously treating them. Charlotte teaches VIA to nurses who return to their communities to treat women all over Malawi.

Charlotte can recall the exact moment when she felt called to mission service. Her church had invited Dr. Sue Makin, a PC(USA) mission co-worker from Malawi, to speak. The last photograph in Sue’s presentation was of a young Malawian boy holding a baby. Sue said, “Don’t look at these children with American eyes. Look at them with God’s eyes, because God has a purpose for them, too.” In retrospect, says Charlotte, she recognizes that she was “hooked” from that moment on.

Letters from
Charlotte Gott

• March 2005
• February 2005
• January 2005
• December 2004
• November 2004 (2)
• November 2004 (1)
• October 2004
• July 2004
• June 2004
• April 2004
• March 2004

Prior to discerning the call to work in southern Africa, Charlotte had since 1999 worked as a family nurse practitioner at the Family Health Center, Moncrief Army Community Hospital, Fort Jackson, South Carolina. She worked as a nurse practitioner in Winnsboro, South Carolina, and in Denmark, South Carolina.

Charlotte worked as a nurse at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, caring for patients with endstage renal disease and other medical-surgical patients and at Mid America Rehabilitation Hospital in Overland Park, Kansas, and North Kansas City Hospital.

Charlotte has a master’s of science from the Family Nurse Practitioner program of the University of Kansas Medical Center and is certified as a family nurse practitioner by the American Nurses Association. She has a bachelor’s of science in nursing from the University of Kansas Medical Center and a bachelor’s of arts in psychology from Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Charlotte is a member of Saxe Gotha Presbyterian Church of Lexington, South Carolina.

Birthday: January 5