Mtende Community Project would like to thank the Kitchen Table Charities Trust and their donors for the grant of £6,000 which we used to provide 90 desks and 9 teachers tables and chairs to 3 primary schools in the Ekwendeni area of Mzimba district, Northern Malawi. The desks were made in Ekwendeni by local carpenters. The grant also provided 3 notebooks and a pencil for 250 pupils in each of the 3 schools. The desks were very much appreciated as until then the children had been sitting on a stone floor. These schools are in rural areas and there was a 2-month delay in transporting desks to one of the schools as the lorry needed to cross 2 rivers to get there and due to excessive rainfall the rivers were swollen and the dirt tracks were thick mud. Here are some photos of the desks and children with the notebooks and pencils.
