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LIGHT4YOUTH at Kanthona


This project has been set up in response to the Aids epidemic.  Light 4 Youth is an organisation of mainly young volunteers who seek to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS, especially among young people.  They do so by means of very explicit messages, and use drama, poetry and songs to reach their peers. 

Whole generations have been wiped out destabilising village life. Orphans are often cared for by grandparents who have neither the money or energy to cope.

 
  

In partnership with Starfish Malawi, African Revival run a number of education, health care and micro-finance projects in Malawi.

Friends Malawi




Friends Malawi is the schools arm of Starfish. It provides resources for local schools and facilitates a school link scheme. At present over 100 schools in Kent, East Sussex and Essex have agreed to take part and this mirrors the programme of linking schools to those in Northern Uganda.

Making the link is about understanding that education can eradicate extreme poverty and appalling healthcare and provide hope for the future. The G8 summitt at Gleneagles pledged access to good quality education by 2015.

One scheme that we want to encourage with the funds raised is the creation of school farms which would provide food for all the children in the chosen schools.
 

Kanthona


Kanthona is a community that is the focus for 12 other surrounding villages.  They have only one derelict school block and no water readily available.  They promised to make 300,000 bricks themselves if they could then have some help to construct a school and have a borehole for their water.  They have achieved their target and construction has started. 

 
 

Salima


Kaputu School was the original project that Starfish Malawi started in 2004.  The school has 1,200 children and 22 teachers. A brand new school has now been built. New teaching blocks and a teachers' house were built and all pupils are given one meal a day. This has led to an improvement in their general health.

Prior to our involvement, Kaputu was officially classified as a failing school but now the School Inspectors describe it as "excellent".  Consequently they have allocated the school five extra teachers which has meant a reduction in the overall class sizes.

We have also sent shipments of redundant school equipment from the UK. This means that the children no longer have to learn on the floor but can sit in a formal learning position.


Encouraged by the success of Kaputu School, Starfish then repeated the procedure at another school in the Salima area, Simayiwa, in a village just a short distance from Kaputu.  The initial project there was to build a borehole to provide the school and community with fresh drinking water.  This was finished in August 2005. More recently 2 new school blocks with two toilets have been built.  A feeding programme is established.

 

Enukweni/Ekwendeni


These adjacent villages in the Mzimba area are where African Revival first started working in Malawi by funding pre-schools in collaboration with Everychild. 

We are funding 2 micro-finance offices in collaboration with the Microloan Foundation (also in Salima).  This charity already operates in other parts of Malawi where it lends small sums of money to women.

 
 


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