Dunblane Likhubula Partnership

​​ In August a friend of the partnership, Carol Finlay from Church of Scotland World Mission, is travelling to Malawi and will be visiting Mulanje Mission hospital; not far from the Likhubula community. She has offered to transport some lettters for us. Among these letters are messages to each of our current Bursars. These are all individual and are messages of encouragement and support. We hope to hear back from our Bursars at some stage and will share this news when available. We are very proud of our Bursars and the bursary programme. At present we support 15 young people and next session hope to add another 5 taking us to 20 Bursars for the first time; 5 in each year group. An example of

​ We are thrilled to announce that we have been successful in our bid for £3000 to rebuild houses damaged in the flooding earlier this year. The Beit trust, through the Scotland Malawi Partnership, has donated £20000 to support flood recovery and rehabilitation in Malawi. On the request of our committee in Likhubula, and with the advice of a Malawian engineer, we successfully bid for £3000 to allow for the reconstruction of 6 houses which were destroyed by the terrible flooding earlier this year. David Hope-Jones, Scotland Malawi Partnership Principal Officer said: "We are delighted to have helped facilitate this donation to support flood recovery and rehabilitation work in Malawi. By workin

We are excited to share news that 16 young people and 6 leaders from 25th Stirling (Dunblane) Boys' Brigade will be travelling to the Likhubula area next summer through Classrooms for Malawi - a charity which renovates classrooms in Malawi, started in Scotland. Although not strictly through our partnership, we will be working closely with the group to provide any support we can in their preperations. It is also hoped that the trip will coincide with a partnership visit next summer - by this time it will have been 3 years since any face to face contact has been made. Lots more news to follow - watch this space! In the mean time, you can follow news on their facebook page here. #admin #friends

The Scotland Malawi Partnership, of which we are a member organisation, has come up with 11 principles which describe effective and good practice in a partnership. These fit the acronym 'partnnership'. Planning and implementing together Appropriateness Respect and mutual understanding Transparency and accountability No-one gets left behind Effectiveness Reciprocity Sustainability do no Harm Interconnectivity Parity (equality) We were asked to provide some thoughts on how our partnership meets the "appropriateness" principle. Watch Fiona from our committee in the above video! Find out more about "partnership principles" on the SMP website here. #admin #friendship #video

The Scotland-Malawi Partnership have a brand new website! Our partnership is a member of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership. We hope the new website will prove to be a great resource for us and that we will be able to benefit from and help other members through it. Why not check it out!? See if you can find our own page... www.scotland-malawipartnership.org #friendship #admin #photo