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Vodafone World of Difference

Pip and Sam working for Landirani through a Vodafone Foundation Scheme

Pip and Sam are int he middle of their two month placement for the Vodafone foundation's "World of Difference" Scheme. They both won the chance to work for a charity of their choice (Landirani of... Read more

Posted in General News - Wed, 10th Feb 2010 @ 17:14:34

School Partnership updates

Newsletters from the April trip and October trip 2009

Click the images below to see the newsletters for the partnership exchanges last year... Newsletter 1 - April 2009 Newsletter 2 - October 2009 ... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 5th Jan 2010 @ 13:10:12

BUY OUR FRIENDS A DRINK THIS CHRISTMAS

Just £100 to make a well safe for a whole village

It only costs £100 to build up a well to make it safe a free from contamination. This is a great christmas present for your friends and family as it is genuinely saving lives and we will have a ... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Fri, 11th Dec 2009 @ 11:30:30

Issue 6 of Landirani Newsletter

News and updates from the past few months....

Click the image below to see the latest issue of our newsletter ... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 8th Dec 2009 @ 11:56:19

Landirani ethical christmas gifts and cards

100% profit to help Malawi this christmas

We have some fantastic ethical gifts that will genuinely make a difference to the people we support in Malawi. These are great christmas gifts for your friends and family this festive season. We also... Read more

Posted in General News - Fri, 27th Nov 2009 @ 12:37:48

Jo Ruff's recent teaching trip to Malawi

5 weeks teaching in different schools

click here to see Jo's report of her trip (pdf) ... Read more

Posted in Reports - Thu, 8th Oct 2009 @ 09:04:56

Wheelchairs donated to Landirani and sent to Malawi

32 wheel chairs making a massive difference

32 Wheelchairs were donated to The Landirani Trust by the Rotary and they are now in use and making a huge difference to the lives of some of the people we support. Here are just two of the wheelchai... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 6th Oct 2009 @ 12:14:33

Children's Corner Set up at Namanyanga

A place of support for children

Our first Children's Corner was set up on Saturday 19th September and is already proving to be a hugely successful and integral aid to supporting children who have suffered a loss due to HIV/AIDS Ple... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 6th Oct 2009 @ 12:02:10

Landirani Live Success

What an amazing day.....

Landirani Live was a fantastic day of music, magic and art. There were so many beautiful experiences from stilt walkers, to music from artists such as little sister blue, Carrie Tree and Martha Tilsto... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Thu, 17th Sep 2009 @ 09:30:31

Summer Indulgence Success

Over £1,000 raised!

31 Upper Brighton road played host to the most successful Indulgence day yet. The third of this type of event had new therapies, sunshine, pimms and relaxing magic throughout the day. Thank you so mu... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Mon, 15th Jun 2009 @ 09:46:11

Brian's Marathon Run

Thanks to Brian and his supporters

We'd like to send a huge thank you to Brian for running the London Marathon for us. He completed it in 4hrs40mins and has raised over £3,000 to date!!! Thank you to everyone who has supported h... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 12th May 2009 @ 10:07:19

Stories Success

Fantastic weekend of story-telling

Over the weekend we transported people to Malawi and taught them about the lives of children living in Malawi through art, photography, drama, photography, film and personal experiences. ... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Tue, 12th May 2009 @ 09:16:40

Landirani Birthday!

4 years old on 23rd April 2009

On the 23rd April 2005 The Landirani Trust was established as a UK registered charity dedicated to helping orphan and vulnerable children in their communities in Malawi. A huge amount h... Read more

Posted in General News - Thu, 23rd Apr 2009 @ 10:28:17

LANDIRANI ON EBAY

You can donate to us through ebay sales

We have a profile on Mission Fish which is the official way to donate to charities when you make a sale though ebay. If you do sell a lot and would like to donate between 10% and 100% to Landirani pl... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Fri, 6th Mar 2009 @ 08:40:38

Tom's marathon run!

Marathon in Barcelona

On Sunday Tom Bower ran the Barcelona marathon for us! He completed the run in 3hrs 25mins and has raised lots of money for us - exact figure to follow. Thank you so much to Tom and everyone who spo... Read more

Posted in General News - Thu, 5th Mar 2009 @ 15:29:22

Thank you to Seeds for Africa

Kind donation to continue reforestation in our area

We have recently been awarded £7,000 to continue our Reforestation project. It was Seeds for Africa who gave us our initial grant for the planting of the fruit tree orchards in our schools and ... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 24th Feb 2009 @ 07:45:39

October 06

Click here to see the report from Malawi for October 06 (PDF)... Read more

Posted in Reports - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:35:40

November 06

Click here to see the report from Malawi for November 06 (PDF) ... Read more

Posted in Reports - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:35:12

March 07

Click here to see the report from Malawi for March 07 (PDF) ... Read more

Posted in Reports - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:34:42

April 07

Click here to see the report from Malawi for April 07 (PDF) ... Read more

Posted in Reports - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:34:15

May 07

Click here to see the report from Malawi for May 07 (PDF)... Read more

Posted in Reports - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:33:28

MARATHON RUNNERS

Thank you to all runners/rowers!

We've had a number of people running and rowing for us the past few weeks.... Marathon: Brian Heywood ran the London Marathon – April 26th. He completed it in 4hrs40mins. Neil and Paul Cook d... Read more

Posted in General News - Fri, 13th Feb 2009 @ 14:02:22

Happy Christmas from Landirani

Please click here to see THE LANDIRANI CHRISTMAS CARD Hosted by WUPADUPA who have supported us loads this year in all sorts of ways. x ... Read more

Posted in General News - Fri, 19th Dec 2008 @ 09:41:54

2009 Calendars for sale!

Standard wall calendar with good sized boxes for each day. Monday-Sunday layoutAll proceeds from the sale of this calendar go to the orphans in MalawiPhotographs by Nicky Hobhouse Please email&n... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Thu, 27th Nov 2008 @ 07:39:56

Water Indulgence

Massage and relaxation just in time for winter

Massage and relaxation just in time for winter! Saturday 1st November was a beautiful day and lots of money was raised. BIG thanks to Nerys, Angie and Micky who were our angels of neck and back mass... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Mon, 3rd Nov 2008 @ 10:24:50

September Sparkles

Festival in the garden

Thank you to everyone who came to share the magic of my birthday! The music and poetry was amazing and we raised £500 on gifts for the orphans and donations! We will be doing a one day ... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Tue, 30th Sep 2008 @ 10:11:47

Our Director in the UK

UK Visit by Mr Kafumbi Njewa

On Thursday 26th June we went to the airport to pick up Mr Kafumbi Njewa, our Malawian Director.He had a very busy two weeks.... On Sunday 29th June The Landirani Trust ran the service at St Matthew\... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 8th Jul 2008 @ 09:29:04

Drums for Chimbudzi

Fundraising event in Kingston

We had an amazing night on Saturday 5th July. A night of African drumming, dancing, BBQ, photographic exhibition,auctions and the grand raffle draw. We raised over £1350 and had... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Sat, 5th Jul 2008 @ 09:29:11

BIGFOOT

Guinness World Record Attempt

Posted in General News - Fri, 4th Jul 2008 @ 09:29:17

Malawi Evening

On Friday 27th June we had a lovely evening of Malawian food and music. It was also a brilliant opportunity for local people to meet Mr Kafumbi Njewa, our Malawian Director who is staying with us i... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Mon, 30th Jun 2008 @ 09:34:55

Landirani CD

Sung by the children of M'bang'ombe Village

We recorded some singing at M'Bangombe village in April which was amazing and it's now available to buy! We recorded half of it inside with M'bangombe school choir, and the other half was outside... Read more

Posted in Fundraising - Thu, 26th Jun 2008 @ 09:29:32

Frank and Naomi's Silver Wedding

Thank you to Frank and Naomi for being married 25 years and asking for all gifts to be for Landirani. Also, thanks to all their friends for donating so generously to celebrate with them! We raise... Read more

Posted in General News - Thu, 29th May 2008 @ 09:30:49

The Heathland School's kind donation

We are so grateful to The Heathland School for their kind donation. We took the bibs to Malawi with us last week and gave them to the kids. They were so happy and it made such a differ... Read more

Posted in General News - Tue, 22nd Apr 2008 @ 09:33:50

Art day at Maple Infants

We had a brilliant day with kids aged 4 - 10. There were a number of different activities and everyone had a wicked day. We raised over £200. Big thank you to Jodi, Naomi, Sophie, Shirley, ... Read more

Posted in General News - Mon, 17th Mar 2008 @ 09:44:33

Eileen's fantastic evening

Eileen Speak, who came to Malawi with us last year, and is coming again this April, had a brilliant fundraiser at her house last week. There was food, laughter, chatting, music, tombola, bring and ... Read more

Posted in General News - Mon, 17th Mar 2008 @ 09:43:37

Thank you to Tom

Posted in General News - Tue, 26th Feb 2008 @ 09:45:45

Grey Horse Gig

Thank you so much to Jono McCleery, Cate and Adam (Afterspark) and Gareth, Mike, Grant, Simon and Matt (Mountain Firework Company) who all played for us at the Grey Horse on Friday. It was a brilli... Read more

Posted in General News - Mon, 25th Feb 2008 @ 09:46:41

Life in Malawi exhibition

We had an exhibition on Friday with photographs by Gaynor Cook. The exhibition, entitled "Life in Malawi", was a collection of photographs taken in Malawi last year (April and October) and showed a... Read more

Posted in General News - Mon, 18th Feb 2008 @ 09:48:03

Heather's October Report

click here to see Heather's report from October '08 (PDF)... Read more

Posted in Reports - Mon, 3rd Dec 2007 @ 11:52:12

Masiye School update

Masiye School update ... Read more

Posted in General News - Mon, 19th Nov 2007 @ 09:50:23

Sad news from Malawi

We heard on Wednesday 15th August that sadly Essie Longwe our Assistant Director for The Landirani Trust in Malawi passed away. She was the most inspirational woman who helped form the Landirani Trust... Read more

Posted in General News - Sat, 15th Sep 2007 @ 09:56:28

August 2007

Click here to see the report for August 2007 (PDF)... Read more

Posted in Reports - Mon, 20th Aug 2007 @ 11:24:13

The Landirani Trust - Supporting Orphans in Malawi