Dunblane Likhubula Partnership

We have received video updates on the progress of the house building. After some delay in getting it online, we’re happy to share it with you. You can watch the whole video here Excerpts with those who will benefit from the houses speaking can be seen here; in Chichewa but with English subtitles! Thanks to Will, a local supporter of our Partnership who was in the area with work, for providing the video. Thanks also to all those who agreed to be filmed, and to Nat for his translation from Chichewa to English. Further progress will now have been made and we hope to share this with you when we get it. #friendship #house #video

​ We were proud to help bring Marys Meals to Nansato Primary School many years ago. They have helped us in the past with logistics for emergency food aid and we are happy to support them too! Until 28 December, the UK Government has agreed to double any donation made to Marys Meals! Magnus Macfarlane-Barrow, founder of Marys Meals said: “Dear friend, Recently we’ve been doing lots of work to measure the impact of Mary’s Meals. The early results are truly staggering, giving compelling evidence that this simple thing we do –providing a daily meal in school – really does transform the lives of children and their communities. When we began our monitoring work in specific schools, more than half

With the beginning of a new school session, the Dunblane Bursars had their shopping trip for school supplies. This includes stationery, uniforms, school shoes and the other essential items for school which are include in our Bursary Scheme. Our Likhubula Committee informed us they’d even managed to make the budget go a bit further: “We were given a discount when purchasing school uniforms so we used the balance to buy the Umbrellas for bursars so that they can use during rain season.” We now have 15 Bursars on the scheme – 5 in Form 1, 2 and 3. We hope to reach our target of 5 Bursars in each year at the start of the next school session in a years time. Best of luck to all our Bursars as the

Fiona and Ian from our Steering Committee in Dunblane (plus Matthew and Louise!) attended the 10th Scotland Malawi Partnership AGM on 3 Oct in Edinburgh. This event also included the launch of the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals. You can find out more about our involvement with these here. Fiona was asked to speak at the event about how our Partnership is working to meet Goal 1: No Poverty. She got a great reception and there was a lot of interest in the work of our Partnership. David Hope-Jones, the Principal Officer at the Scotland Malawi Partnership, even commented that our photo launching Goal 1: No Poverty, was probably his favourite! The event was both interesting and useful, gi

Almost every country in the world is helping to launch the UN’s new Sustainable Development Goals (or Global Goals as they are known) – the replacement for the previous Millenium Development Goals. The Scotland Malawi Partnership, of which we are a member organisation, is working with the Scottish Government to launch and raise awareness of this campaign in Scotland. We were delighted to be asked to be a case study of Goal 1: No Poverty. The campaign involves both sides of our partnership – both in Dunblane and in Likhubula – holding a sign committing ourselves to this Goal. We think it’s a very powerful picture! You can find out more about the goals at the Scotland Malawi Partnership websit