Month: August 2008

Sister Esther Lupafya, Co-ordinator at the Ekwendeni Hospital HIV /AIDS Programme, recently visited the Raven Trust at Strachur and met Mrs Helen Scott of Lossiemouth, representing Moray West Presbyterial Guild, and Iain McPhilimmy, Trustee of the Raven Trust. Esther expressed her gratitude for all the clothing and knitted goods sent to her. Her department is…

Container FCL 58 was loaded at Stirling on 21st July. We were lucky that the day was bright and sunny as the days before and after were wet. The container was loaded with school equipment which was surplus to requirements due to rationalisation of schools in the area, collection of the goods being co-ordinated by Trish Cooke. Most…

John Challis with the first x-rays from Livingstonia and Ekwendeni Recently Keith Feay from Oldham came out to Malawi. He was able to work on the x-ray equipment at both Livingstonia and Ekwendeni. At Livingstonia he was amazed at the Gorodi which the equipment had been transported over! Yet after an hours work on various…

During John’s last visit, the fishing boat, recently built at Chilumba, was afloat but rather low in the water as it had broken its mooring and hit a local rock. Patrick, the builder, is going to get the boat out of the water and repair it so that on the next trip to Malawi I…

Container FCL55 has just arrived and container FCL56 is in Beira awaiting clearance and transport to Lilongwe. Once the containers leave the UK there is still much paper work to undertake and our clearing agent, Smile Namagonya, does a wonderful job in clearing the goods through customs and arranging delivery. This is not an easy…

The Raven Trust now has a new website, which we will be able to update from the office. We hope to add much more timely news, keeping supporters and associates up-to-date with how projects are progressing and what the needs are. We hope also to provide more detailed information on individual projects so that others…