Stephen and Melita Gordon 11th Nov 2018

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School

1 Jacqueline Malisawo

2 Gladys Matewere

3 Ellen (Mphatso?) Chimbamba

4 Gertrude Chilunguni

5 Ekren Liyaya

6 Miriam Mwafulirwa

7 Mirriam Bwanali

8 Fraser Galimoto

9 Alinafe Mpando

10 Fanuel Phiri

11 Madalitso Sumbuleta

Technical College

1 Brazio Mteko Mechanic

2 Gift Kambanga Welding

3 Harry Nyirongo Electrician

Trade

1 Takondwa Galimoto Tailoring

2 Edith Saizi Hair and Beauty

3 Ruth Chinkhwali Hair and Beauty

4 Mervice Sichings Hair and Beauty

5 Lasco Liyaya HGV driving

Higher Education

1 Annastasia Kabilonje Hospitality and Tourism

2 Iso Ken Mphande Medicine

3 Patience Selemani Nursing

4 Sandra Ndale Media and Communication

5 Yolanda Kaphela Public Health

6 Davis kazembe Community Health

Letter from Malawi

Dear Friends

This is a long overdue letter to thank you for continuing to support people in Malawi who are making

a success of their lives despite considerable challenges. Your support has provided food for street

children, fertiliser for small holders, solar lights for volunteer teachers in remote areas and

secondary education for 7 girls and 4 lads with difficulty finding school fees. You have provided

vocational training in medicine, nursing, public health, tailoring, hair-dressing, welding, mechanics,

HGV driving, hospitality and tourism, media and photography. You have supported several small

business enterprises with small loans (phone repairs, videography, dairy farming, tailoring,

motorcycle taxis) to allow previous vocational students to progress to business independence. Most

recently, we have arranged for some business coaching for these small businesses.

The general news

Malawi has continued to experience challenges this

year. The climate is unstable, with erratic rains and 3

million people expected to be “food insecure” (eating

once a day, thin and with stunted children) in March.

We are approaching an election year, and while multi-

party democracy is largely peaceful here, the

challenges of youth unemployment (we need 1 million

jobs), climate change/deforestation and severe energy

shortage (11% of people have electricity and these have

12 hrs power per day) make prospects bleak for young

people.

Specific project news

Food aid

STEKA is an organisation and children’s home to rescue street children and in most cases restore

them to the family village. Godknows Maseko, the STEKA Director, was himself on the street at one

time. He and his wife Helen have 70 children at home this month. Last year, despite digging and

planting a considerable acreage of maize and beans, the combination of difficult rains and crop theft

left STEKA food insecure for 6 months. We purchased enough maize, rice and beans when the prices

were optimal to last the rest of the year. This year we are discussing whether seed/fertiliser or

timely warehousing of a year’s food supply is a better plan.

Solar lights for teachers

We work with Emmanuel Teacher Training College (“training excellent teachers

for service to God’s people” Eph 412). ETTC train teachers but many alumni

have no jobs (unemployment above) and so the ETTC alumni association

negotiate to place unemployed graduates in schools with no teachers.

Often village communities can support a teacher with simple housing and a

stipend. We make this process more rewarding for the teacher by giving a

solar lamp set. We have supported 20 teachers in this way. Lamp sets of 4

lights each cost £22.

Blantyre Education and Supplementary Training fund (BEST)

Mpemba Hill, Blantyre, Nov 7 2018.

Every little scrap of land is de-forested

and the plots are vulnerable to erosion.

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We have supported 11 secondary school pupils, 3 men at technical college, 4 women and a man in

trade school, and 6 people in higher education (see table). The quality of secondary education is

very poor in Malawi, and so pupils work very hard to make up for lack of resources and good

teaching. They prefer to board, as this gives more working hours per day, and one less mouth to

feed at home. We have some star pupils who have had a great year (see report). Gertrude

Chilunguni has done very well at school – please note 2nd place of the 101 pupils in the class; Iso Ken

Mphande received distinctions in all subjects following his 2017 prize for top Clinical Officer student.

Business ideas

In Malawi, small business development is essential to generate income and

create jobs. We have not yet succeeded in launching the cook stove repair

business as Bright Mnesa finds that the business model does yet not work

in the impoverished community that have access to improved cook stoves.

We have, however, successfully supported a single motorbike taxi business

(full loan repaid) with Henry Zondoma in Mulanje.

Takondwa Galimoto has completed 3 short courses in tailoring and can

now make and sell children’s clothes – electricity is again a struggle, so she

is planning to buy a manual sewing machine and set up her own business.

Currently she borrows a machine.

Boniface Mteko has started a phone repair business (Rumisa – see photo), named after his 3

children, Ruth, Mishach and Sarah. This business teeters on the edge of viability owing to the very

intermittent electricity and so Boniface keeps his job as a night guard.

Edith, Ruth and Mervice are all STEKA teenagers who have finished

school and are training in Hair and Beauty. They want to set up their own business after the

beautician final exams.

Malawi Liverpool Wellcome (MLW) Programme of Clinical Tropical Research

Meanwhile the Wellcome Trust funded research unit continues to thrive. We now have 14 Research

Groups and a staff complement of 653. Melita has led a typhoid vaccine study vaccinating 28,013

children in the first half of the year (the first typhoid vaccine trial in Africa and the largest vaccine

study carried out at MLW). Stephen has developed the CREATOR project – Clinical Research

Excellence and Training Open Resource – to build specialist training in medicine, develop research

leaders and expand the MLW Programme (~£6m). He has obtained a grant to carry out vaccine

research by experimental human infectious challenge as he did in Liverpool (~£4m).

We are very blessed ourselves, and it is our privilege that you join us in helping others with food

programmes, teaching and learning projects and small business development.

RUMISA store April

2018. Boniface

Mteko named the

business after his

children Ruth,

Mishach and Sarah.

He repairs smart

phones overnight.

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Thank you again

Stephen and Melita

Accounts – Jan, Apr, Aug and Nov 2018 and totals

Paid out 2018 Donations 2018

Jan-18 £2,077.60 St Brigids 3WG £5,000.00

Apr-18 £3,039.92 Private gift £1,200.00

Aug-18 £2,177.30 Local funds £4,647.25

Nov-18 £3,552.43

£10,847.25 £10,847.25

BEST accounts Jan 2018

Name School or course Date Fees Books Other Grant Rate GBP

Jacqueline Malisawo Nyungwe Girls School Zomba (new) 04/01/2018 140000 40000 80000 260000 960 270.83

Gladys Matewere St Andrews CCAP Mission School 04/01/2018 200000 40000 10000 250000 960 260.42

Takondwa Galimoto Tailoring apprenticeship 10/12/2017 150000 150000 960 156.25

Ellen (Mphatso?) Chimbamba Maya School (new) 04/01/2018 45000 5000 100000 150000 960 156.25

Gertrude Chilunguni Nkhamenya School 0 0 960 0.00

Brazio Mteko ECOM Vocational Training Inst 0 0 960 0.00

Ekren Liyaya Tate School (new) 0 0 960 0.00

Gift Kambanga Soche Technical College 0 0 960 0.00

Annastasia Kabilonje Hospitality and Tourism Management 0 0 960 0.00

Iso Ken Mphande Clinical Officer 04/01/2018 500000 500000 960 520.83

Patience Selemani BSc in Nursing 0 0 960 0.00

Sandra Ndale Dip TV production 0 0 960 0.00

Yolanda Kaphela BSc in Public Health 0 0 960 0.00

Madalitso Sumbuleta Pius XII Minor Seminary 19/01/2018 145000 7500 152500 960 158.85

Ulemu Nellie Bodza Management Devt Centre 0 0 960 0.00

Harry Nyirongo Polytechnic Electrical Engineering 140000 50000 150000 340000 960 354.17

Solar lights for teachers 960 200.00

2077.60

BEST accounts April 2018

Name School or course Date Fees Books Other Grant Rate GBP

Jacqueline Malisawo Nyungwe Girls School Zomba (new) 05/02/2018 170000 10000 180000 960 187.50

Gladys Matewere St Andrews CCAP Mission School 06/02/2018 200000 48000 248000 960 258.33

Takondwa Galimoto Tailoring apprenticeship 0 960 0.00

Ellen (Mphatso?) Chimbamba Maya School (new) 23/04/2018 45000 5000 100000 150000 960 156.25

Gertrude Chilunguni Nkhamenya School 26/01/2018 97000 97000 960 101.04

Brazio Mteko ECOM Vocational Training Inst 08/04/2018 70000 6000 28000 104000 960 108.33

Ekren Liyaya Tate School (new) 0 960 0.00

Gift Kambanga Soche Technical College 0 960 0.00

Annastasia Kabilonje Hospitality and Tourism Management 0 960 0.00

Iso Ken Mphande Clinical Officer 344327 344327 960 358.67

Patience Selemani BSc in Nursing 12/05/2018 200000 130000 330000 960 343.75

Sandra Ndale Dip TV production 12/05/2018 250000 40000 290000 960 302.08

Yolanda Kaphela BSc in Public Health 0 960 0.00

Madalitso Sumbuleta Pius XII Minor Seminary 20/01/2018 145000 145000 960 151.04

Miriam Mwafulirwa Maranatha Girls Academy 08/02/2018 330000 330000 960 343.75

Harry Nyirongo Polytechnic Electrical Engineering 02/04/2018 300000 300000 960 312.50

Solar lights for teachers Robert Badenburg 400000 960 416.67

3039.92

BEST accounts Aug 2018

Name School or course Date Fees Books Other Grant Rate GBP

Jacqueline Malisawo Nyungwe Girls School Zomba (new) 15/05/2018 170000 170000 925 183.78

Gladys Matewere HHI CCAP Mission School (new) 925 0.00

Takondwa Galimoto Tailoring apprenticeship 300000 925 324.32

Ellen (Mphatso?) Chimbamba Maya School (new) declined 0 925 0.00

Gertrude Chilunguni Nkhamenya School 15/08/2018 97000 30000 40000 167000 925 180.54

Brazio Mteko ECOM Vocational Training Inst declined 0 925 0.00

Ekren Liyaya Tate School (new) declined 0 925 0.00

Gift Kambanga Soche Technical College 0 925 0.00

Annastasia Kabilonje Hospitality and Tourism Management 0 925 0.00

Iso Ken Mphande Clinical Officer 17/07/2018 150000 150000 925 162.16

Patience Selemani BSc in Nursing 0 925 0.00

Sandra Ndale Dip TV production 0 925 0.00

Yolanda Kaphela Applied for BSc in Community Development 0 925 0.00

Madalitso Sumbuleta Pius XII Minor Seminary 02/05/2018 145000 21000 166000 925 179.46

Miriam Mwafulirwa Maranatha Girls Academy 0 925 0.00

Harry Nyirongo Polytechnic Electrical Engineering 03/09/2018 156000 200000 356000 925 384.86

Solar lights for teachers Robert Badenburg 0 925 0.00

Edith Saizi Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 30/08/2018 120000 120000 925 129.73

Ruth Chinkhwali Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 30/08/2018 120000 120000 925 129.73

Mervice Sichings Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 30/08/2018 120000 120000 925 129.73

Davis kazembe Community de velopment level 5 23/07/2018 345000 345000 925 372.97

Mirriam Bwanali Soche Hill Sec School 925 0.00

Fraser Galimoto Malamulo School

2177.30

BEST accounts Nov 2018

Name School or course Date Fees Books Other Grant Rate GBP

Jacqueline Malisawo Nyungwe Girls School Zomba (new) 16/10/2018 175000 25000 9500 209500 925 226.49

Gladys Matewere HHI CCAP Mission School (new) 04/09/2019 275000 100000 375000 925 405.41

Takondwa Galimoto Tailoring apprenticeship paid july 0 925 0.00

Gertrude Chilunguni Nkhamenya School 15/10/2018 97000 97000 925 104.86

Gift Kambanga Soche Technical College declined 0 925 0.00

Annastasia Kabilonje Hospitality and Tourism Management 0 925 0.00

Iso Ken Mphande Clinical Officer 16/10/2018 100000 100000 925 108.11

Patience Selemani BSc in Nursing 11/11/2018 240000 42000 282000 925 304.86

Sandra Ndale Dip TV production 300000 internet 300000 925 324.32

Yolanda Kaphela Applied for BSc in Community Development 0 925 0.00

Madalitso Sumbuleta Pius XII Minor Seminary 04/09/2018 153500 9500 163000 925 176.22

Miriam Mwafulirwa Maranatha Girls Academy declined 0 925 0.00

Harry Nyirongo Polytechnic Electrical Engineering 03/09/2018 355000 150000 505000 925 545.95

Solar lights for teachers Robert Badenburg 0 925 0.00

Edith Saizi Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 11/11/2018 40000 40000 925 43.24

Ruth Chinkhwali Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 11/11/2018 40000 40000 925 43.24

Mervice Sichings Adv certificate at Victory School of Hairdressing and Beauty 11/11/2018 40000 40000 925 43.24

Davis kazembe Community development level 5 paid july 0 925 0.00

Mirriam Bwanali Soche Hill Sec School 04/09/2018 81000 68000 149000 925 161.08

Fraser Galimoto Malamulo School 04/09/2018 220000 50000 270000 925 291.89

Alinafe Mpando Nyungwe Girls School Zomba (new) 18/09/2018 175000 90000 265000 925 286.49

Lasco Liyaya Apule Driving School HGV driving 11/11/2018 200000 13000 213000 925 230.27

Fanuel Phiri Nzeru Secondary School 11/11/2018 113000 124495 237495 925 256.75

3552.43