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Annual Report 2005/2006 Trustees
Chairman Saddie Munthali
Treasurer Roger Flambert Bridget Le Huray
Projects Officer Margaret Parr
Secretary Sally Huband
Supporter’s sec Margaret Brewster
Publicity Jane Arden
Other Trustees
Geoff Stone
Anthea Griggs
Christine Matthews
Veronica Dubbey
Bazil Arden
Malawian Helpers: Grafiud Tione
Introduction.
MACS has had a busy year, but there has been the fall in income that we
expected. The previous year was exceptional with a large donation, a legacy
and money from Aspect Capital. Our income for this year, as you can see from
the financial report was £144,876. A total of £173,464 has been spent in
Malawi during the year, some of the income from the previous year had been
held over and was spent early on. This year, money has also been kept in this
country, mainly for specific projects about which we needed more information
or the recipients were not ready to start work. The exchange rate with the
Kwacha is so volatile, it does not make sense to send out money until it is
needed.
The Board of Trustees has met approximately every 2 months throughout the
year. We were delighted to have elected 3 new trustees at the last AGM. Bazil
Arden, Veronica Dubbey and Christine Matthews. Geoff Stone has had to resign
as he has moved with his family to South Africa.
Margaret Parr made her annual visit to Malawi in June/July last year and
monitored many projects with Grafiud Tione. His help is proving invaluable in
visiting projects, contacting beneficiaries, sorting out queries in
applications and generally providing feedback to trustees throughout the year.
Projects.
Over the year the following range of projects have been supported.
Churches and clergy houses. ( £21,365)
The requests for new churches and repairing old ones seems never ending. We
have, largely, stuck to the plan of funding one church from each diocese after
each meeting. This does not always work out, some dioceses have greater needs
than others. Similarly the need to build and repair clergy houses is infinite.
Education (£64,802)
Another £20,000 has gone to rebuild the hostels at Malosa secondary school. We
had sent £30,000 the previous year. These funds were mainly form a grant made
by Aspect Capital More money is still needed for three further hostels but we
can repport that the first is complete and ready for occupation.
We have continued to send out bursary money for students at St Michael’s,
Malosa and Community Secondary schools. The decision was made to send out
£1,500 each term and the schools work out how many students they can support.
The funds for bursaries mainly come from a group of young men who visited
Malosa whilst at Lancing College some years ago.
Money has also gone to Mtendere, Mchokola, Mkope Blind school, Mpondas,
Chalenga, amongst many others. We have also sent money to repair or build
teacher’s houses and for a library in Monkey Bay. Money has also gone to build
a community library at Wungwero. Sometimes the money needed can be quite small
eg £220 needed to repair a laboratory roof at Malindi CSS but without the
money buildings soon fall down.
Health (£16,792)
We are still supporting St Luke’s hospital, St Anne’s Nkhotakota and St
Martin’s Malindi. St Anne’s have been sent money to buy 2 oxygen concentrators
which are proving invaluable. Matope labour ward is completed and has been
opened. We have also set aside money to buy an ambulance for St Martin’s
Malindi. The need there was great.
AIDS/Orphan projects ( £18,194)
The needs are still enormous. We get many requests to help with AIDS projects,
especially for buildings for orphan nursery classes and adult education and
counselling The anti retroviral drugs are beginning to reach a larger
percentage of the population, but not everyone yet gets them. We continue to
support orphans at St Luke’s and Malindi regularly and have assisted groups at
Chisomo, Chingwenya and Katema. We also get requests to fund workshops to
raise awareness of the dangers of AIDS among young people and married couples.
Famine Relief and Food security ( £31,572)
You will be aware that Malawi faced another famine at the end of last year and
the beginning of 2006. Thanks to the generosity of our donors we were able to
send out money immediately. £18,444 went to the Primary School feeding
programme run by Mr Bushili. £6000 was used in parishes in the Blantyre
Archdeaconry and smaller sums elsewhere for alleviating hunger and for food
security projects.. Water projects (8,599)
We have sent money to desilt the dam at Malosa which supplies the water for
the whole diocesan site including St Luke’s hospital, as well as funding
boreholes. Currently MACS is investigating a link with Playpumps. Another
organisation will provide the pumps and set them up, if we can locate the
boreholes with clean water and a good supply. The idea is that children in the
area, play on the ‘roundabout’ and this pumps the water into an overhead tank.
Talks are going on with UNICEF in Lilongwe at present and the organisation
hope to start installing the pumps either by the end of this year or early
next. Miscellaneous (£12,140)
Money has gone to a variety of small projects. We have sent money for books
and the Lamp magazine for all Anglican clergy which they receive every two
months. We have also funded some women’s courses.
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