Our Vision is to see a healthy, educated, self-sufficient community in Malawi.
Our Mission Statement
- Promote educational facilities for all children in the community
- Enhance the ability of the community to become self-sufficient
- Ensure care of orphans and vulnerable people affected by HIV/AIDS
- Provide fresh water and sanitation
We are supporting around 3,000 orphans in their villages. We support 13 centres in an area around 400km2 with a main focus area of 200km2.
We are dedicated to helping children, whose childhoods have been suddenly taken away from them, due to illness, poverty and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The amount of these affected children is incredible. A generation is slowly being eliminated, leaving the elderly to take care of the young
The Landirani Trust is a registered charity formed to give life and hope, to a small part of Malawi, the 'Warm heart of Africa'.
Latest News
2170 items distributed to the children in our area
Blankets and clothes distributed June-August
Between June and August 2010 we have distributed 570 blankets, 500 sleeping mats and 1,100 items of warm clothing.
250 of the blankets came from Gift of the Givers who also donated over 500 jumpers and jackets which we have distributed to orphans and vulnerable children at all 13 of our centres. Some elderly people also benefitted from the blankets and clothes to keep them warm during the winter.
150 of the blankets were donated by The Rotary Club of Lilongwe in August
The remaining blankets and clothes were from our own supplies.
This is a fantastic achievement and we are sending a huge thank you to Gift of the Givers, The Rotary, Lilongwe and our team in Malawi who have worked so hard securing the donations and ensuring the distributions have been successful.
Posted in News from Malawi - 2010-08-20 10:34:41
Latest Project Information
Water and Sanitation
45,000 people in our area need clean safe water
We have initiated a safe water program this year and intend to ensure that everyone in our area (around 45,000 people) has access to clean, safe water. The safest water source is a borehole, which is a deep well dug to water level with a fully protected cover and a working pump to draw the water. Having done the assessments we can work out exactly how many boreholes are needed in each of our areas. To build the borehole with a working pump it costs £500/well. We will also ensure a committee in each village is trained in basic maintenance of the wells. We have completed 4 of the 13 assessments we need to do in our area. A typical Water hole - unsafe water source Built up well - safe water source as it is protected from contamination and the spread of disease. A borehole - safe and easy water source Buy a drink for our friends... It only costs £100 to build up a well to make it safe a free from contamination. This is a great present for your friends and family as it is genuinely saving lives and we will have a plaque created with the name of your recipient on it to go on the well - we will then take pictures of the well upon completion and send it to them.
A typical water source in our area in Malawi:
We would like to build up all the wells so they are free from contamination:
Where possible we would like to put in boreholes:
Having done 8 needs assessments (out of the 13 required in our area of support) we have discovered the issue of safe water sources is a substantial problem.
For example, in one of our centres there are only 5 boreholes that work (serving 113 families) and 1 broken borehole (serving 15 families) the remaining 340 families are drawing water from an unprotected shallow well or water hole.
Landirani is committed to bringing a clean safe water source to each village in our area. We support 12 centres, each with a number of satellite villages (anything up to 40)
We have started by building up shallow wells so they are protected from contamination. This also reduces the risk of children and animals falling in the wells and reduces the occurrence of stagnant water (which attracts mosquitoes) so will therefore reduce the instances of Malaria in our area. We aim to ensure that all shallow wells and water holes are protected in this way.
We would like to put pump on each well to make the water accessible to all.
The result will be clean and safe water throughout our area reducing disease and various illnesses.
Posted in Projects - 2009-12-01 12:11:11