StillVision Abroad - Aquaid Lifeline Part1, Malawi

The final part of our month in Africa was a visit to the Aquaid Lifeline Fund's orphan village of Namisu near Blantyre in Malawi. The Cambridge based water company and associated charity are coming up for 10 years old and we were there to help them produce an anniversary brochure. Since starting out Aquaid have put over 3 million pounds to good use with their Malawian projects donating £732,000 last year alone! The orphan village is an amazing success and the work being done by the charity owner John Searle is really inspirational.

The number of projects has grown and grown and we managed to visit a good number of them. We also met a number of the people being helped either through schooling, day care, employment, college sponsorship or simply given access to medical treatment.

Hopefully the following images sum up the good work being done and portray the positive atmosphere that exists within the projects, the people that work for them and the children that they help:

THE SCHOOL AT NAMISU

















SCHOOL AT LASUNGWE

StillVision Abroad - Aquaid Lifeline Part2, Malawi

Aside from the huge amount of energy that goes into putting orphaned children through school, housing those without any family at all and feeding all of the day care children twice a day, there is a lot more that Aquaid funds and a lot more that goes on behind the scenes:

NAMISU ORPHA VILLAGE - views.





WOODWORK TRAINING - cabinets and structures for the building projects, schools and residential facilities.



TAILOR'S SHOP - providing uniforms for the school.



THE GARDENS - Maize and other crops feed the day care children (400 + in Namisu alone). The aim is to make the village self sufficient and provide an income.




FLATPACK WHEELCHAIRS - Self assembly wheelchairs that require only a simple, plastic garden chair!



ELEPHANTISIS - After consultation with the Doctor at Namisu the action decided on was for amputation of the arm.



VILLAGE PASTOR - Pastors hold village communities together and many are sponsored.



MIKE - being funded through university in nearby Zomba.