Category: Malawi

Today the donations from St. Chad’s to the Malawi Orphans were taken by two cars (Bob Ilsley helped) to the container depot in Castle Vale.  Click the link below to see more photos.  Thank you again for the all the donations.  We sent 18 boxes of mainly clothes, but including educational equipment (pens, crayons, paper…

Fr. Joel has sent us the accounts for the last donation from St. Chad’s Church to the Living Bread Organisation.  It has paid for food and school fees for the secondary aged children. So, very grateful thanks to all at St. Chad’s (and the surrounding community who have Malawi donation boxes in their homes), who…

A private donation has allowed the Living Bread Organisation (LBO), the charity in Zomba, Malawi which Fr. Joel Malanda chairs, to buy a peanut crushing machine, training and set up requirements.  This will enable the team of volunteers to make peanut oil which is widely used in Malawi as cooking oil.  They will be able…

Fr. Joel and the Living Bread Organisation say : “thank you very much for your email and thanks very much we have received the donation from St. Chad’s. On Monday 23 December, 2013 we will have distribution of items but school fees will be paid when school open on 6th January, 2014. What makes us happy is…

Hi Paul Please receive financial report and oil machine presser photo. The trainer did not come on Saturday because he lost a relative and he has set 21 December, Saturday and he has charged training fees plus bottles and travel expenses(by minibus). We have agreed to wait for this man since he is the one…

Below are the photos with the email sent by Fr. Joel showing the distribution of food purchased with the donation of £1100 from St. Chad’s in July 2013.  The pictures tell the story of the recipients.  One baby and two HIV boys were expected to die but recovered with the better food that was available…

Hi Paul, Thanks very much we met Rev. Tucker and we traveled in some places where he met the beneficiaries. And am sure he is now in England and he is going to brief you how he traveled.  I have delayed to write you because poor internet service. He met school beneficiaries, some orphans and elderly which…

9-05-2013 Received from Fr. Joel Malanda of the Living Bread Organisation Malawi. Hi Paul Thanks for trying to source mosquito nets for the children here. People use nets here and those misuse them haven’t heard. There are a lot of mosquitoes here and how can one just throw them away and mosquitoes feeding on them?…

Church congregations from all over Birmingham donated goods to Malawian communities by way of the Birmingham Container no. 7.  sent in November 2012.  Well it has arrived in Malawi and the goods distributed to all the recipients including Fr. Joel Malanda in Zomba. The report that follows is the account of this arrival and distribution by…

I have noticed recently a campaign by Christian Aid to raise money in the U.K. for treated mosquito nets to be provided to children and adults for protection against malaria. Knowing that Fr. Joel and his daughter have suffered from malaria in the past, I asked whether it was a problem for people in his…

Hi Paul, Thanks very much for your kindness to orphans, helpless and hopeless elderly. Also have delayed to reply because of power cuts, out internet cafes rely on Escom power only and every day we experience this problem. Thanks we have received the donation from St. Chad’s for food and school fees. Schools open on…

Please  sorry  for  delay   due  to  weather  problems  affecting  internet. Received   financial  report  on  food ,transport  and Isaacs  second coaching. The University  Council  has  changed date from  7  February  to March 27, 2013.All those who registered for entrance  exams  are doing  second coaching for  3 weeks and  Isaac is amongst them. Rains have  now  started  falling …

Hi Paul, Thanks very much we have received the 400 pounds for food.We are distributing it Monday but the commodity is scarce hence prices  higher than ever.We have very heavy down fall and garden,houses and lives destroyed.It is by chance to access internet due to weather difficulties. Isaac will write entry exams on 7 March…

Hi  Paul  Please receive financial report for food, School fees and transport. All pupils are in school and Isaac has done registration for university entrance exams and is attending coaching for February end entrance exams. He is staying with us since he comes from central province near Zambian border and we are in the south.…

News About Malawi. Our donation to the Living Bread Organisation was sent off in November and arrived in good time for Father Joel and his helpers to buy the food (maize, beans and salt) before Christmas and distribute it to the orphans on December 23rd.  Accounts will be sent to us shortly.  Father Joel says,…

Message from Father Joel on 3rd December 2012 We haven’t received the money (St. Chad’s Church donation) yet and when we get it we will inform you. Our request is that they should send us urgently because maize now here is scarce because of dry spell. Indeed your grand-children the orphans will be paid fees…

The PCC meeting on Wednesday agreed to carry on supporting Father Joel and the Living Bread Organisation that looks after the orphans in the Zoma area of  Malawi.  Great news. Also Father Joel has indicated that two of the secondary school-aged orphans are expected to go to the University of Malawi.  Brilliant news. ***

  I have just received an email from Father Joel Malanda.   I thought you might like to see what happens to the donations St. Chad’s makes to Father Joel and the Living Bread Organisation.   It gives the accounts for the last donation sent to him.  See in church on the Malawi board.   EXPENDITURE…

Many thanks to all the people who sponsored Gary, Julia and his children on the Birmingham Skyride event in August.  £190 was raised for the Malawi orphans cared for by Father Joel and the Living Bread Organisation in Zomba Malawi. Thank you again. ***

Father Joel in Zomba Malawi has emailed to say that he has received the donation from St. Chad’s of £950 which pays for food for the orphans and the education fees for those attending secondary school.  The orphans are fostered for free by many good hearted families in the surrounding villages.  So any food provided…

It was whilst at the Deanery Synod Meeting on 13-06-2012 that I met Canon Paul Wilson  who is the retired accountant for the Birmingham Diocese Malawi Fund.  Edwina introduced him to me as someone who knows Father Joel Malanda personally.  Straightaway Paul said that St. Chad’s was sending a lot of money to Malawi just to…

Following Father Joel’s idea of setting up a maize mill in order to generate finance for the orphans to improve their self-sufficiency, the following research was undertaken. Summary. Below are four stories about communities in Malawi acquiring a maize mill.  They are really inspiring as poor communities overcome adversity and frustration with patience and dignity. …

As some of you might be aware The Malawi Team met Rev’d Richard Tucker, vicar of St. Columba’s and leader of the Diocesan Team who plan links with Malawi(malawiofficer@birmingham.anglican.org) on Wednesday  30th May.  Also present were our two church wardens,  Alf and Brian Scotcher, Brian Pitkin plus Lyn Tribe, secretary of the PCC and of…

We have had a lovely email from Father Joel thanking us for our recent donation and telling us how it has been spent.  He said, “We are very thankful to you at St. Chad’s for your untiring effort to assist orphaned children and poor people here……You are really saving the lives of people here and…

07-05-2012 ITEMS PURCHASED IN POUNDS amended

History of St. Chad’s Malawi Project to May 2012.