Month: August 2012

On Tuesday 28th August volunteers again gathered at the Raven Trust store to help load the latest container for Malawi. Over 1,100 boxes were trollied out of the store, lifted onto the container and carefully packed for the long journey by ship via Greenock, Antwerp, Coega (South Africa) and  Beira (Mozambique) and then by road to Lilongwe…

In partnership with Killearn Church, the Raven Trust is project managing the building of a house in Mzuzu to provide accomodation for overseas visitors and volunteers who assist with various projects. The house used at present will no longer be available as it is needed to house Synod personel. The new house has been given…

Dr Ross Muiry (affectionately know as Dr Ross) is a volunteer obstetrician who also looks after sick and premature babies at Embangweni Mission Hospital in Northern Malawi. When John Challis visited him this summer Dr Ross told him of the problem of the high neo-natal death rate (death in the first days of the baby’s…

  Hilltop Craft House, although not quite finished, was in use when John Challis visited in July. It has been established by Ruth Nyondo just outside Mzuzu with support and funds from and through the Raven Trust. Here Ruth brings together local women and trains them in all sorts of craft and machine skills in…

During his last visit to Malawi in July, John Challis was invited by Rev Levi Nyondo, General Secretary of the Synod of Livingstonia, to visit Mzuzu prison where Levi had been held during the troubles in Malawi last year. Rev Nyondo spoke to the prisoners and pointed out the door of the cell where he…