Malawi Rural Water and Sanitation Project

January 4, 2022Tags: ,
Water Works would like to thank Kitchen Table for a grant of £6,000, which will assist two villages in Malawi, (consisting of about 60 households and 260 people), meeting their need for clean water and hygienic sanitation. The programme involves mobilising communities to improve their water, sanitation and hygiene behaviours through the provision of a hygiene awareness programme, the construction of latrines and hand-washing systems at the household level and the installation of a sustainable waterpoint in each village.  Our projects have been found to dramatically reduce the percentage of children under five suffering from diarrhoea within the previous 2…

Providing desks to schools in Malawi

July 17, 2021Tags: , , ,
Mtende Community Project received a grant from KTCT of £6,000.  105 desks have now been completed, 80 desks went to St Michael's Primary School and 25 desks to Emazinyeni Primary school.  After I received the grant, St Michaels received 50 desks from UNICEF funds and I decided to support another 2 primary schools with some desks as they had very few.  A further 25 desks are being made at the moment for Ng'ongo Primary School and then the carpenters will make the 16 teachers desks and chairs for St Michael's Primary School. I have attached photos of the 105 desks at…

Thanks from Mtende Community Project (Malawi)

May 6, 2021Tags: , , , , ,
Mtende Community Project was overwhelmed to receive a grant for £6,000 from the KTCT as we are a small charity. Grateful thanks to the KTCT and their supporters for this grant to provide 16 teachers' desks and chairs and 130 desks for the children of St Michael's Primary School in Ekwendeni, Malawi. The school was built in 1992, has a roll of 1685, and the teachers and pupils have never had a desk to sit at so there is great excitement at the school for this welcome development. This grant is also providing work for 6 carpenters in Ekwendeni to…

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update – 1000 children helped!!

March 23, 2021Tags: , , ,
Thanks to you and KTCT we have just celebrated our 1,000th wheelchair for a child in Malawi and we were adamant it should be dedicated to you. (KTCT has contributed to approx 20% of these wheelchairs). Onwards now to the next 1,000 and to reach the 1,000 milestones for home chairs for tots. Thank you so much for your support on this project which, as you know, benefits so many people worthy of help. KTCT-Wheelchair-1000Download

Malawi Farmers Aid’s project in rural Malawi

July 20, 2020Tags: , , , , , ,
Aim The aim of the project was to provide groups of unemployed youths in two remote rural villages in Malawi with the necessary training, guidance, and farm input materials to set up small-scale farms in their community. The farms are intended to be the basis for long-term sustainable and expandable food production and employment in one of the poorest countries in Africa. We work with our partner organisation in Malawi, Tivavwire Youth Organisation. We secure funding for our projects from UK charities, and TYO manages the projects in Malawi. The Project Kitchen Table Charitable Trust provided us with a grant…

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update

June 7, 2020Tags: , , , ,
Attached are the details of 24 more children now mobile in Malawi thanks to KTCT. By the end of the year FOSCIM will have put together around 1,000 of these wheelchair case stories and the exercise never ceases to have an impact and only serves to remind us that whatever our gripes they pale into insignificance compared to the hand of cards dealt some folk in various other parts of the world. For the latest details on children helped, please read the following report: KTCT2020July7Download

Child Mobility FOSCIM (MALAWI)

February 1, 2020Tags: , , , ,
If life for the average, ‘healthy’ Malawian child is poor then life for those with severe mobility problems can be dire. The consequences for the child and its family can be many and debilitating. The Government of Malawi does not provide mobility aids. Even if they could find them, most families would not be able to afford a mobility aid for their child. Without a mobility aid, the child cannot go to school and will have a very limited social life.If the child cannot go to school, in most cases this restricts both parents from working therefore impacting the family…

Child Mobility FOSCIM (Malawi) – Update

February 13, 2017Tags: , , ,
FOCSIM have pleasure in attaching 4 more case stories from Malawi of children now mobile thanks to KTCT.  Sorry to say that the flow of case stories to KTCT has been and is being frustrated by two things, one bad and one good. The bad one of course is Covid-19 and the resulting travel restrictions within Malawi plus the hospital's rules about how many out-patients can been seen on site at any one time. The good one is that this year’s Christmas mobility appeal broke the previous year’s never-to-be-matched response. Because of Covid-19 it proved impossible to meet the demand…

“zikomo kwambiri” from Malawi

November 11, 2013Tags: , ,
If quality of life for healthy Malawian children is low, quality of life for children with severe mobility issues can be dire. They are largely ‘abandoned’ to the floor or the ground unless a guardian can carry them on their backs, which in turn creates health problems for mums and other guardians, particularly as their children grow. These children have limited, if any, social lives, unable to meet or play with friends, and few will be able go to school because of the dependency on others for mobility. The generosity of KTCT supporters in funding bespoke wheelchairs, robust enough to…