Dr Tracy Morse and her family have left Malawi after over 20 years and moved to Lenzie near Glasgow. Tracy has taken up a Senior Lecturer post at Strathclyde University, and will be heading their new Centre for Sustainable Development, but will still be involved with Malawi.
We will continue to support orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi. Tracy has put arrangements in place for the distribution of food to the organisations that we support (including Open Arms Children's Home and Steka Orphanage) so we are confident that our funds are being wisely spent. However, due to the COVID situation all our fund raising has had to stop and indeed Tracy's visits to Malawi have been put on hold until travel restrictions are eased.
She is in regular contact with people on the ground in Malawi and our need for funds to continue with projects there are as important as ever.
As well as providing food and support to children every day we have in the past supplied:
- Hundreds of mosquito nets for families in several villages across Malawi
- 30 bicycle ambulances to allow patients from rural villages to get to a health centre or hospital
- Funds for bore holes in rural villages and water treatment tablets for many family huts to supply clean water
- Starter packs of maize, beans and fertilizer through Open Arms to help families become self-sufficient
- £5000 to Ekwendeni Hospital in Northern Malawi to help repair damage caused by a whirlwind
- Funds to build new school classrooms (with solar power)
- Funds to build new medical clinics in rural villages where these clinics were originally held under trees
- Funds for a new maternity unit to replace one destroyed by storms
- Funds for new feeding stations to replace grass huts which were previously used and a maize mill at the same location to make the feeding stations self-sufficient
- We support the Paediatric Ward at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Blantyre
- In the past we have sent out 7 shipping containers (one of which was donated by OEG Offshore, Aberdeen) containing medical supplies, 150 hospital beds donated by Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, two portable X-ray machines donated by Rowett Institute, clothing, hand knitted children’s clothes, medical equipment and lots of football kits, everything donated by supporters of our charity. (unfortunately, due to rising shipping costs and import regulations we have had to stop sending these containers)
- None of this would have been possible without the many generous donations we have received from individuals and companies
9