Big thanks!

A big thanks to Giovani di Gesu and Gerard McCabe for their extremely generous donations of £100 each. The money will make a huge difference to the kids and we can't thank you enough.

Grant from Kitchen Table Charities Trust

We are delighted to report that the Kitchen Table Charities Trust's Grants Committee has approved a grant of £6,500 towards the cost of building a rehabilitation and training centre for orphans and other vulnerable children at Manasseh Township,  Blantyre.

In a letter to Mac Nkhutabasa, Brian Donaldson (the Chairman of the KTCT Grants Committee) said," John Humphrys founded the Kitchen Table Charities Trust to help small charities like yours that succeed in transforming people's lives with very little money.  It gives us at KTCT pride and satisfaction to be able to support the work of the Chimwemwe Children's Centre,  and we wish you and your colleagues every possible success with this project and all your future activities."

The grant will enable Chimwemwe Children's Centre to commence building before the Malawian wet season.

Just back!

I'm just back from Malawi and have had a fabulous (albeit tiring) time out there.

So, what's new?

Well, the hope is that we will be able to take over a building previously used by another charity group that worked with children (but which seems to have folded) to be able to house the children who are still on the streets. With any luck, they will be able to move into this building by the start of July.

We are also trying to put together budgets to get funding to build our own centre and are hopeful that we will be able to make a start on that before the end of the Malawian winter (UK summer).

More detailed updates soon!