Protect 500 Kids with Disabilities in Malawi

Dear Friends,

with great joy I wish to share my experience of the trip I experienced in Malawi. As Aleimar's project manager, I had the opportunity to accompany a group of volunteers and monitor the projects implemented by our local partner: Tiyende Pamodzi Group (which means “Let’s walk together”).

We had the privilege of witnessing the extraordinary work that this Community Based Organization does thanks to the support of so many Malawian volunteers: each week volunteers leave their work in the fields to accompany trained staff, visit families with children with disabilities in the villages and distribute food and medicine. Volunteers also perform the vital task of training caregivers with respect to physiotherapy to be carried out with these children.

We had the great honor of attending the 10-year celebration of the disability program developed by Tiyende Pamodzi. It was a time of joy, sharing, singing and dancing!

During the monitoring trip of November, we visited many families in the villages, understanding their housing situation and the difficulties they face every day. In addition, we monitored the activities in physiotherapy centers: mothers leave at dawn with their children with disabilities on their backs and walk for hours in order to participate.

During our visits we distributed bags of corn to the villages involved in the project: this good is essential for cooking Likuni Phala, a protein food to be fed to malnourished children with disabilities.

Thanks to your support we have delivered the first bags, but we want to ensure an annual supply to combat growing child malnutrition. A 50 kg bag of corn costs $27 (€25) in Malawi. very help, big or small, can make a difference!

Thank you!

Dear Donors,

With this report, we would like to update you on our project in the Mangochi district for 500 children with physical or mental disabilities who live in extreme poverty. Thanks to the collaboration with our local partner, Tiyende Pamodzi, the physiotherapist visits to Namwera and the 12 villages of the district continue. These visits are essential to assist children with disabilities by helping them grow and develop.

However, children and families in the Mangochi district are facing many challenges. High inflation has increased the cost of food, leaving many children suffering from or at risk of malnutrition. In addition to high prices, the local population is complaining of increasing difficulty in finding the food they need. Malnutrition represents a particular challenge for children with disabilities, as it worsens their health conditions and compromises the progress achieved with physiotherapy.

To fight malnutrition, Tiyende Pamodzi Group has decided to provide an incentive to families who attend physiotherapy sessions. The local partner provides them with corn, which the families supplement with peanuts and other food to create protein meals that can help malnourished and at-risk children during physiotherapy sessions.

At the end of October, our staff and volunteers will travel to Malawi for the usual monitoring trip. In preparation for this trip, we want to launch a special fundraiser to provide the 13 villages with the corn needed to meet their needs for the next year. A 50 kg bag of corn costs $27 (€25) in Malawi. For a year, 70 bags are necessary, so our goal is to raise $1,907 (€1,750).

Thank you for supporting our project and helping children with disabilities in the Mangochi district!