The Landirani Trust - Supporting Orphans in Malawi

 

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.

• Water holes - a very shallow hole dug in the ground and left completely un protected
• Shallow wells – a hole dug to water level but left unprotected
• Broken borehole – this is a safe water source but the pump is broken so the water cannot be drawn properly. 

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.

 

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Project4Africa

So far £38,000 has been raised!!!!!

Project4Africa is a group who raise funds to build schools in Africa.

Project:

This year they are working with Landirani to build at Namanyanga, which is a school in the North East of our area.

They are going to raise the funds to build two school blocks (which is 4 classrooms) and a toilet block, with the view to build more if sufficient funds are raised.

click here for more info from their website www.project4africa.co.uk

Latest News from Malawi

August 2010

Not long now until the Project4AFrica Team head to Malawi to finish some of the building work and have a football match with the locals.

In the meantime here are some pictures from the latest build:

October 2009

We had a celebration to mark the opening of the two new school blocks. This celebration was extremely well attended by children and Head Teachers from all the schools in our area of support. There was some fantastic singing and dancing and a speech from the Minister of Education. The Headmaster of Namanyanga was so happy that day and walked straight into one of the classrooms and wrote up on the black board "Welcome to Namanyanga School". It was a fantastic day and everyone there is really looking forward to meeting the Project 4 Africa team when they go out there later this year.

September 2009. Two school blocks now completed!

The NEW school buildings:

 

Donate:

If you would like to DONATE through PAYPAL please click the link top right of the homepage ("paypal donate to project4africa") and fill in the PAYPAL form.

To DONATE to this project by cheque or cash please click the "donation form" link on the right of this page and fill in the top section putting "PROJECT4AFRICA" in the box for donating to a specific project.

 

Latest News from the Project4Africa team:

Past Fundraising

Sponsored Walk

SUNDAY 25th JULY 2010 @ 10.30AM

Hampton Court and Thame towpath

Walkers embarked on an easy flat route of 6 MILES through Bushey Park takes in the grandeur of Hampton Court Palace, the beauty of the gardens, the mystery of the maze and the tranquility of the river (and the haven of at least two pubs!)

Dinner with a difference Thursday 20th May

The Travelers' club, Pall Mall. Special Guest speaker Lord Falconer. 

 

Lisbon half marathon Sunday 21st March 2010

James Williams did the Lisbon half marathon to raise funds for Namanyanga School.

James has completed his half marathon but in the UK! He ran from Twickenham to Hampton Court and then around Bushy Park finishing back at Kingston Bridge. The reason for the change of venue was British Airways and we will be writing to Willie Walsh for a donation!

Tow Path Walk   Sunday 28th February. A nice sponsored stroll along side the Thames

'A dinner with a difference' 21st January 2010

This black tie dinner included a lively topical debate between Lord Falconer (previously a Home Office Minister and the last Lord Chancellor) and Martin Nary (Chief Executive of Barnardos and previously Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service and Director General of the Prison Service).  A debate the audience was part of!

Lara Aveline climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and raised a fantastic £1758.15

Fun Run with David Lloyd Centre in Epsom was huge success with over £1,000 being raised.

David Keoshgerian, Ed Ashton and Neal Smith ran the Paris marathon raising over £3,000

Thank you

The Landirani Trust would like to thank all who are involved in Project4Africa and everyone who donates to this amazing project

Zikomo

 

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School Partnerships

Linking schools in Malawi with schools in the UK

We are linking schools in Malawi with schools in the UK to establish a relationship between the two countries through correspondence. We want the schools in Malawi to learn about and learn from the schools, teachers and children in the UK, and likewise the people in the UK can learn a lot from those in Malawi. 

School Links we have set up:

October 2008 

Masiye & St Matthews, Surbiton

Chikhutu & Maple Infants, Surbiton

M'bang'ombe & Long Ditton Infants, Long Ditton

Namanyanga & Coombe Hill Infants, Kingston

Chibwata & Tolworth Infants, Tolworth 

June 2009 

Chitsime & The Mall, Richmond

Chikuyakuti & Christ Church School, Surbiton

July 2009

Kakoma & The Ken Stimpson Community School, Peterborough

October 2009 

Kafutwe & Briar Hill, Leamington Spa

April 2010 

M'khalapadzuwa & St John's Primary School. Kingston

Chitedze 2 & Lovelace Primary School, Chessington

We do school partnership updates twice a year where we go to the schools in the UK and collect information to take to Malawi - we then collect similar information from the schools in Malawi to bring back to their partners in the UK.

Each trip has a different theme so we can learn specific things about each country and draw interesting comparisons.

Themes:

April 2009 : Homes

October 2009 : Games

April 2010 : Water 

In 2009/2010 schools in the UK are aiming to raise £350 each for a water harvester for their school in Malawi. The water harvester collects rain water from the roof of the school which is a clean and safe water source the children can use in school.

To see the first newsletter from April 2009 click here

To see the newsletter from October 2009 click here

To see the newsletter from October 2009 click here:

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Secondary School Sponsorship

Sponsor a child through Secondary School

It only costs £180/year (£15/month) to sponsor a child through secondary school

Education is free to children up to the end of primary school but if they want to go on and get a full education (and hopefully go onto university) it costs around £150/year for four years at Secondary School This pays for school fees, exam fees, school materials, boarding fees, food and school uniform

We are currently sponsoring 28 teenagers to go to Secondary school. 

An example of a Student Profile:

Hello. My name is Lonely Zefenia Banda. I am 14 years old and was born on the 12th May 1994. I am in form 1B at Lilongwe Girls’ Secondary School. I started here in January, and I am really enjoying my time here.   

I come from the Chi;mbalu area and went to Chimbalu Full Primary School. I have one brother who is 9 years old and 2 sisters one aged 12 who also goes to Chimbalu School and is in Standard 5, and one aged 17 who is married.   

My favourite subjects at secondary school are English Mathematics, Bible Knowledge and Geography. When I finish at this school I want to go to University to train to be a nurse.  

When I am not studying I enjoy playing football, watching films, reading books and writing folk tales.

I want to tell you that I am very happy that you pay my schools fees.  

God bless you and thank you very much. If you did not help me I would not be able to go to secondary school.  

I will do my very best in my studies.

To sponsor a child through secondary school please fill in this form and send it, with your payment, to P.O Box 851A. Kingston. KT! 9FD

If you have any questions please email pip@landirani.org. Thank you.

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Children's Corners

Emotional support for children affected by HIV/AIDS

We are setting up children's corners in our area to offer emotional support to those who have suffered a loss in their family due to HIV/AIDS

Children's Corners give children a place to go to mix with other people in the same situation as themselves. The children are encouraged to keep memory books to remember their loved ones and also they are given the chance to talk about their loss with carers and other people in their situation. 

Children’s Corners give children the opportunity to play in teams and work together with other children - giving them a renewed sense of worth and identity

We set up our first Children’s corner at Namanyanga and opened it on Saturday 19th October. It’s already proving a hugely beneficial project.

The emotional side of losing a loved one is often lost to the practicalities of "what happens next" in terms of siblings to look after, food to find and money to make, these children's corners are integral to the management of grief for the young people in this sad situation.

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Feeding Programme in Schools

Working with Feed The Children

Providing a meal at the beginning of the day encourages the children come to school because there will be food there for them that they wouldn’t otherwise have, and it helps them learn more effectively when they’re at school.

We have been working in partnership with ‘Feed The Children’ (www.feedthechildren.org.uk) and have started using a new fuel saving oven in one of our schools. ‘Feed The Children’ is providing the food and Landirani orgainses the training and operation of the feeding programme. We have to provide the fuel saving oven and the bowls and spoons.

Setting up a feeding programme in just one of our schools ensures that all the children who are orphaned, vulnerable or effected by HIV/AIDs are being fed with a nutritional porridge (Likuni Phala) every day. This scheme is for children under the age of 10 as they are the children who are less likely to be able to cope by themselves.

To set up a feeding programme:

The fuel saving oven costs 75,000 MWK which is around £320

As an example, if we buy 400 bowls and spoons it costs around £200 and we also buy washing up basins and buckets which cost £25. Training of the volunteers and the schools to show how the scheme will run and why it’s beneficial costs 22,300MWK which is around £95

This is a total of just £640 to set up a new feeding programme.

Once we have spent the initial costs on the set up, the programme will run without further input from Landirani. It will be self-sufficient as the cooking is done by volunteers (ladies in the village work on rotation) and each child brings a piece of wood for the oven so we will not incur costs in buying fuel.

We have set up our first feeding programme at Masiye Primary School and we are looking to set up the next one at Namanyanga Primary School.

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Orphan Vegetable Gardens

Setting up vegetable gardens in schools

So far we have set up six vegetable gardens at Masiye, M’bang’ombe, Chitsime, Kakoma, Kafutwe and Namanyanga. 

We prepared the land, planted the seeds and set up the irrigation systems as shown in the picture.

The barrels we used for the irrigation systems were first put into schools in the UK to be filled with seeds, books and equipment and decorated then we brought them over on the plane as our luggage.

We are aiming to attach a vegetable garden to each school in our areas which will be maintained by the children and teachers and provide much needed food to the orphans and children in the schools. We are aware that there a huge number of orphans and vulnerable children who are over 10 years old and so not included in the feeding programmes (see here for more details) so the vegetables grown in the gardens are distributed to these children as priority

*Vegetable garden: £15  *Gardening Equipment: £15  *Drip-feed irrigation system: £20

If you would like to donate to something specific, please click on the "gift list" link on the right hand side of this page.

 

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Fruit Trees

Planting Fruit Trees in the schools

640  trees were planted in February 2008 and this project is being monitored by our team in Malawi. When we're in Malawi we visit the orchards in all our schools to check they are being well maintained and give advice and aid where needed.

*20 Fruit trees: £20  *Equipment: £15

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Reforestation

Reforestation in our area

In order to do all the building projects, we have asked the communities to help contribute by providing bricks for us. The firing of the bricks takes up a lot of firewood.

Wood is the main source of fuel for keeping warm and cooking. The land has slowly but surely been taken over by farming and trees are also chopped down in the fields. There is very little replanting, therefore it is essential that these stocks of wood are replenished.

Our Reforestation Project is promoting self-sufficiency within our support area.

Our Aims are:

• Provide seeds, seedling and tools for nursery development.
• Develop nurseries attached to schools.
• To train local people and students in plant care

The aim of the project was to plant 1,000 trees at each Primary School, in an area that has seen deforestation occurring at an alarming rate.

In January 2009 we planted 8,000 trees in 8 different schools. These were a mixture of varieties that can be used for firewood or for making furniture.

In June 2009 we trained and set up 3 nurseries in 3 of our schools.

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Distributions

Distributions will always be a big part of our work, and are vital to the orphans who have nothing.

We do regular distributions throughout our area.

We distribute clothes, toys, sleeping mats, blankets, monsquito nets.

We also do regular orphan lunch days, providing every orphan in a school with a nutritious lunch.

We were recently donated some wheelchairs by The Rotary, which have been distributed to people in our area. See the News page for more information and pictures.

 

*Blanket: £4 *Sleeping mat: £2 *Mosquito Net £10 *Feed an orphan for a year: £20

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Building a school at Masiye

Building started 2006

We have completed:

• Three out of four school blocks (which is 6 classrooms)  
• Two out of four teacher's houses  
• The kitchen and store room  
• The renovation of the pre school. 

We have yet to complete the other school block and the teacher's houses but progress on these projects is steady and being over seen by our project manager.

Building the School:

 

 

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