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Links
Welcome to our Links page! Here you will find the sites of other great organisations that work in Malawi, organisations that help us out, and useful Malawi news sites.

Please help spread the word about this project by putting our link onto your site! If you would like your link to be listed here, please submit your request to the webmaster.

We have a Facebook Cause and a Facebook Group, so if you're a facebooker, come join us!

www.myspace.com/malawieducationproject is our other little web presence.


Organisations in Malawi
Organisations that work in and for Malawi, with the common goal of helping to reduce poverty and for the betterment of the Malawian people.

www.temwa.org.uk
Sustainable community development project based in the remote town of Usisya, Northern Malawi.

www.buildmalawi.org
Community education project based in the Chisala area, Nkhata Bay. Working in association with ABC Malawi

www.cfas.org.uk - in association with SchoolNet Malawi and IT Africa
Taking reconditioned computers to Malawi and neighbouring countries, providing and promoting access to internet and computers for children and teachers.

www.billysmalawiproject.org
Medical support project based in Cape Maclear, in memory of Billy Ruerdan.

www.greenstandards.co.uk
UK based reusing organisation, providing multitudes of infrastructure to schools in Malawi and around the world.

www.malawiabc.org
Action for the Benefit of Children. Helping needy children affected by HIV and Aids in and around Blantyre, southern Malawi.

Golden Sands - Paper For the people paperforthepeople@yahoo.co.uk Chembe village widows and orphans project, making paper and cards and selling them to support their own community. - If you or anyone / shop you know would like to sell their beautiful goods out of Malawi, please get in touch with us or them. The more they can sell the better they can support each other. This is a locally grown and managed project on the lakeshore of Malawi.

www.afroarts.co.uk
Bristol based organisation selling Malawian artists work in the UK to support their livelihoods.

www.lakeofstars.co.uk
Annual 3-day music festival in Chintheche, Malawi, held in October. Featuring artists from around the world.

www.rippleafrica.org/
RIPPLE Africa's mission is to help young Malawians reach their potential through the development of local education by recruiting volunteer teaching assistants, providing educational materials, and securing funding for the construction and ongoing operational costs of a new secondary school at Mwaya; and to help the local community by recruiting volunteer health care assistants, and to procure drugs and equipment for the local health centre.

www.plan-international.org/wherewework/eastafricaeurope/malawi
Plan International are an Africa-wide project, mainly helping develop food sustainability and educational infrastructure throughout Malawi.

www.bookaid.org
Opening up the world through books. Sending 50,000 books a year to 10 African Countries. Resourcing Malawian learning through National Libraries.

www.re-cycle.org
Taking reconditioned bicycles out to Africa

www.careinternational.org
CARE International is a global humanitarian organisation working with over 45 million disadvantaged people in 70 of the world's poorest countries, including Malawi (although there is no link to Malawi on their homepage... they do work there!)

www.britishcouncil.org/malawi
The British Council in Malawi, supporting school partnerships between the UK and Malawi.

www.iceida.is/english/main-activities/malawi
Icelandic International Development Agency. Supporting school infrastructure development in Malawi.

www.malawiproject.org
Malawi Project Inc runs various types of projects in Malawi, from education to eye care to food aid to medical projects.

www.friendsofmalawi.org
An American based committee of Malawi-lovers, building ties between Malawi and America one village at a time.

www.openarmsmalawi.org
Open Arms is an infant home in Blantyre that is run with charitable contributions.


Other organisations that help us and that we love
www.thingything.co.uk
Hannah - our web designer

www.hopskipandjump.org.uk
Regular donors of books, and soft toys for orphanages

www.keepsafe.ltd.uk
Regular donors of books, and soft toys for orphanages

www.basestructures.com
Transporting donations from around the country

www.robsontaylor.co.uk
Our accountants who work for freeee

www.elworthy.co.uk
Donors of stationary

www.westsurfing.co.uk
Donors of sports clothes for 2006 shipment

www.handofglory.co.uk
Funding... make parties...

www.allaboutthearts.com.uk
Funding... donate a profit share

www.star1072.co.uk
Local support and publicity

www.myspace.com/cakeboystuff
Our briliant resident live act for our fundraiser gigs

www.espresso.co.uk
We collect pictures and info to supply their Primary educational content, for interactive white boards in UK schools

www.blinque.co.uk & www.vertigofilms.com
More general love and support


Websites in association with our volunteers, trustees and great supporters
www.duchessphotographic.co.uk/

www.casasl.com

www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk

www.secretgardenparty.com

www.pussyparlure.co.uk

www.gladefestival.com

www.shambalafestival.org

www.festivals.ie

www.pilger-jack.ch


Other nice sites
www.grenadarelief.co.uk
A one-man operation, similar to Malawi Education Project, aiding schools in Grenada, West Indies.


News in Malawi
www.guide2malawi.com
Malawi's only official tourism website. Full of information if you're off to Malawi.

www.malawi.com
An invaluable source of information. Links throughout Africa to sites and directories.

www.malawi-update.org
Up to the minute headline news and archives

www.einnews.com/malawi
4,500 individual sources updated every 1/2 hour

www.allafrica.com/malawi
News from Malawi

www.mbcradios.com
Malawi Broadcasting Corporation. The Biggest FM in Malawi


Language: Learn Chichewa
http://nature.berkeley.edu/~alyons/chichewa/index.html
Learn to Speak Chichewa. Links to other Chichewa sites


Related world organisations
www.makepovertyhistory.org
A huge collaboration of people and organisations supporting the campaign to make poverty history. Join them, wear your white band, and shout to the world leaders who have the power to sort it out.

www.africaguide.com
A guide to the whole African continent, including flights, accommodation, travelling, overlanding, photos, visas, car hire, working, facts, news, conservation and more.

www.roughguide-betterworld.com
A free publication illustrating the problems and developments throughout Third World countries, and how we in the developed world can make a difference.

www.worldbank.org
Statistics as provided by the World Bank Organisation. Click on countries, then Malawi.

www.dfid.gov.uk
Department for International Development. UK Government initiative

www.actionaid.org/wherewework/africa.html
Working on issues such as HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment, famine relief, peace building, food and education.

www.worldvision.org
Giving a chance to children in the Third World

www.amnesty.org
Amnesty International: Working to protect human rights worldwide

www.oxfam.org

www.redcross.org

www.savethechildren.org

www.unicef.org/infobycountry/malawi.html
United Nations Children's Fund in Malawi


** If you have found any of the above links to not be working, please take a moment to let the webmaster know. Thank yoooou! **
Photo gallery:
Have a peep at some photos of the project's work in Malawi and the UK, as well as pictures from events other stuff we get up to.


MEP working in Malawi