Month: April 2016

John reports that the CCAP Livingstonia Synod Office, Esther Lupafya of Ekwendeni Hospital AIDs dept and others have taken boxes of blankets and clothing sent out on Raven Trust containers to victims of the floods in and around Mzuzu. Also in the last few days, World Food Programme workers have set up an office in Mzuzu…

A few more pictures of the arrival and unloading of the Raven Trust’s 100th container in Ekwendeni, Malawi. These pictures courtesy of Mr Patrick Tembo, Senior Administrative Officer at Ekwendeni Hospital, who receives the containers and organises the unloading of goods and the storage of those boxes which are not immediately collected. Thank you Patrick.

In the past few weeks there have been reports in the media of crop failures in Malawi. John has just arrived in Malawi and travelled up from Lilongwe to Mzuzu. It appears there are a number of complex issues besides the very late rains which continued longer than usual. In the central  region the crop…

John Challis was present at Ekwendeni Hospital today as the 100th Raven Trust container arrived to be unloaded. It had set off from Strachur just under two months ago and was welcomed with great excitement as John explained the significance of this particular container to those around him. Just 58 days door to door! The…

Smileawi was set up as a Raven Trust project in October 2012 after Nigel and Vicky Milne, two dentists from Dunoon , went to Malawi with John Challis to assess the dental services available in northern Malawi, accompanied by Clyde, a teddy bear  who helped to break the ice with many of their younger patients. Since that…

On a wet and windy 1st April, just after dawn, MSC Ishyka set off down the Clyde from Greenock carrying FCL 102 on the first leg of its sea voyage to Beira in Mozambique. From there the container will be carried onward by road to the Malawian Revenue Authority premises in Lilongwe in Malawi and eventually…