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How you can help

MACS supports numerous projects in communities throughout Malawi - building water wells, repairing and equipping schools, funding orphan programmes, providing HIV/AIDS education materials, helping train nurses and supporting long term food security projects to name a few.

For further details of MACS work and how funds are supporting communities in Malawi, see Recent Projects and Project Focus. The work of MACS is ongoing and your support will make a real difference.

Here are some ways you can support MACS.

Make a donation large or small! One off or regularly through a standing order.

MACS allocates its funds under a number of categories of work that we support including Health, Education, Churches and clergy housing, HIV/AIDS, Women's Projects, Orphans, Community projects and a temporary category of Famine Relief. If you would like your donation to go to a particular category of work then please indicate when making your donation. We reserve the right to apply funds within these categories to meet prevailing priorities as understood by the trustees. MACS supports local groups and organisations and not individuals. Remember if you are a UK taxpayer you can increase your donation by almost 25% by completing a Gift Aid declaration!

Print off the MACS donation form

MACS Gift Aid Labels are available as download. There are two versions, one a general label, and one which can be customised with a project name or such like. Both are in Word format.

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Prayer
Use prayers for Malawi in your church or meetings/groups. Send us your prayers to share with others.

Get twinning!
Make links with a church, school or community group in Malawi. Such two-way links can be a great way of forming partnerships with communities in Malawi. Contact us with an idea, a proposal or for further information.
Awareness raising
Find out about Malawi using information from the MACS website and share this with your Sunday School, youth club, house group or at a special 'Malawi Sunday' service at your Church. Find out how unpayable debt is affecting Malawi by visiting the Jubilee Debt campaign website or more about the issues affecting Malawi from the World Development Movement
 

MACS Gifts

  • Macs have produced a brochure of gifts that you can 'give' to friends instead of a traditional present.
  • Download the Gift List and purchase your selection using the Gift Order Form. Alternatively, you can purchase on line from the gift list by clicking on this link Online Giving

Everyclick provides a comprehensive range of online fundraising tools for charities of all sizes opens up potentially significant additional revenue stream - Give as you Live.
Give as you Live is an opportunity for your supporters to raise significant additional funds simply by going about their usual online activities, searching the web, shopping online and trading on eBay.

Recycle 4 Charity

Recycle your Mobiles, Inkjets, Laser or Toner Cartridges and raise £££'s for MACS

EBay Giving through MACS - Checklist

  • Provide a description and preferably photos of the goods for sale, and as much relevant detail as possible e.g. physical state, age,
  • Tell us whether you are willing to post the goods to the successful bidder - or whether you would prefer them to come an pick them up. Postage is a better option, because more people are likely to be interested and bid.
  • Tell us what percentage of the proceeds you would like to go to MACS - most people give 100%
  • Provide us with your contact details. A mobile phone number and email address are particularly useful - so that we can contact you quickly, if the need arises.
 

EBay giving - the Process

  • You contact us via email at malawimacs@gmail.com
  • Send us the details outlined in the checklist above.
  • We will put up details of your sale item, using our Ebay account.
  • We will manage the bidding process, e.g. liaising with the bidders and the eventual winner. This normally requires us to get answers from you - so your mobile phone number and email address are very useful.
  • Once the auction is completed we will put the successful bidder in touch with you so that you can both sort out the details.
 

Missionfish on Ebay

  • MissionFish enables people selling on Ebay to give some of the proceeds to charity.
  • Tell anyone you know who sells on Ebay – that they can now choose to donate a percentage of the sale price to MACS.
  • All they need to do is select MACS from the MissionFish list of charities, which they do when entering details of their auction item onto the site

MACS' shop front -

  • Companies like John Lewis, Oddbins and M&S will give a percentage of the sales price (between 2 and 12%) to MACS if you go through our website at http://buy.at/malawimacs
  • ** Prices are NO higher than if you bought directly from the provider’s site – so there’s nothing to loose.
  • Try it out - it just adds one click to your internet shopping trip.
  • There are also some special deals, e.g. if you buy broadband through the site, the company will donate £27 to MACS