Month: Nov 2023

Our new Christmas card, Hope for the Future, celebrates the positive start in life experienced by the children in the rural nursery school whose construction was funded by NWT. The price is £5 per pack of ten, plus 50p for postage. 

Still available are our former hits, The Work of our Hands, and Room at the Inn, at £4 per pack. All cards include a simple Christmas greeting. Room at the Inn is also available blank inside for your own message. Message Pauline if you’d like a reminder of these earlier cards or scroll down to previous years’ posts.
 
You can order simply by emailing webber.pauline@gmail.com, and pay either by sending a cheque  to 1, Apple Tree Walk, Clymping, West Sussex, BN17 5QN or by bank transfer using the reference “Cards”. 
 

This Christmas help a Malawian school girl reach her potential by giving her a reusable menstrual kit. We know we have done it before, but we really can’t overstate how popular this simple gift is with the young women – or the impact they are having.

Headteachers of schools whose female students got them last year, tell us how much attendance (and grades) have improved. And the young women who have received them tell us they are life-changing – “we are all once again taking part in sports”, “my grades are up because I’m no longer missing school”, and “I feel so much more confident now”. Help us provide this gift to even more young women.

Your gift of £12 will buy a female school student 5 reusable sanitary pads, 4 bars of soap, a tub to wash them in, a sealable bag to store them in, and 3 pairs of underwear.

You can donate via www.justgiving.com/campaign/christmas-period or directly into our bank account with the reference ‘Christmas’.

Download a gift certificate to put under the tree below.

Life in Malawi is currently even tougher than usual, with rampant inflation, the impact of climate change on farming conditions among other things, and most people really struggling to achieve anything remotely like what you and I would call a reasonable standard of living. Yet, you are making a difference. The former ‘street children’ whose schooling you support continue to make better than average progress; the secondary schoolgirls who receive your menstrual health kits express their delight as they know the difference the kits will make to school attendance, and therefore achievement. The hostels you have built ensure a safe environment for girls to continue their education. The “safe house” refuge recently completed for the survivors of domestic abuse has been assured of a future by the Clooney Foundation undertaking the funding of its running costs.

More is needed of course, but what we are doing is making a real difference. Thank you for your support.