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Smiles for Smileawi
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…
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Bon Voyage FCL 102
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…
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100th Raven Trust container
On Wednesday 17 February, the Raven Trust sent out container number 100! This represents a massive 120,000 boxes of all different shapes and sizes. And at today’s value, this has cost a whopping £1.2m. If the containers were parked end to end, they would stretch for almost a mile! And if the boxes were lined…