Project started 26th August 2024What we achieved in 2021 |
On top of continuing to fund 3 hospitals, Angels has provided additional support another 1 health care facility.
We are proud to have achieved the following:
- Improvements made to to girls’ hostel in Mtendere Community Hospital
- Construction of new hostel for girls accomoding 40 young women in at St Anne’s Hospital
Covid-19 update
Despite most of the population of the UK being vaccinated against Covid, Malawi’s population remain mainly unprotected and as such the trustees decided not to travel to visit both our programmes and our partners. We have received regular updates and photos from all our partnered hospitals, leaving us confident that our funding remains safe and more than ever necessary to the medical teams and their catchment populations.
We have provided more funding for PPE when it has been requested from our general funds.
Mtendere Community Hospital
Angels International (AI) continues to support the hospital’s outreach programmes of Malaria Prevention, Health Education through Dramas, Youth Activities and Health Education, Reproductive Health and the PMTCT programme, preventing babies with HIV positive mothers being born with HIV. The MTEWEC (Mtendere Women’s Empowerment Centre) continues to thrive with women being taught new skills – sewing and computing – as well as being able to use the relevant machines AI have provided to practice their skills and earn money. Both the ambulance and the hospital generator continue to be serviced and maintained by us.
Our hostel for girls wanting to continue their education remains over-subscribed and maintained by AI. We have also funded some additional concrete work this year to prevent the outside kitchen area at the hostel flooding during the rainy season.
The hospital requested funding for training an anaesthetist and this was sent.
Nkhamenya Community Hospital
The hospital bakery continues to thrive and provide additional funds for the hospital. The hospital generator continues to be serviced and maintained by us.
There has been a complete change of management at Nkhamenya.
AI trustees are waiting some communication as to the current situation and future.
St Joseph’s Community Hospital
The hospital ambulance continues to be serviced and maintained by us. St Joseph’s and Chiphwanye seem to have suffered most from Covid complications and as such have sadly decided to halt their outreach programmes for the foreseeable future to focus on programmes within the hospital itself.
We are in frequent contact with our partners there and we will work with them to re-establish their Outreach programmes when they feel the time is right.
St Annie’s at Bembeke
The hospital ambulance provided by AI has received funding for servicing and maintenance.
We are delighted to have received funding for a second Hostel for Girls. There is a great need for more security for girls who desperate to complete their education will travel miles to find a school with places willing to take them on. Finding themselves far from home, they have nowhere to sleep and take great risks by sleeping in hedges or under trees making them vulnerable to harm and worse. Thanks to a long-term supporter of AI we now have another hostel with dormitories to accommodate 40 girls.
As always, we and our Malawian partners are forever grateful to those Trusts and individuals for their continued support and belief in what Angels International is trying to achieve.