Building Futures in Malawi

We are a small UK based charity committed to improving opportunities for children in Malawi. Contact Building Futures in Malawi here. We have built 2 libraries and secondary schools in Lilongwe, Malawi and have gained a great deal of experience throughout these ventures. 

• We build infrastructure such as schools, libraries and sports facilities
• Malawian organisations run these facilities
• The schools, libraries and sports facilities fund their own running costs - they don't depend on our support
• This means that they are long lasting (Falls Secondary is 8 years without a penny from us!)
• All of the money you donate goes to the cause and into tangible items such as libraries and schools
• None of the money you donate goes on UK running costs
• We have nearly no UK running costs and these are funded by our committee (aside from bank charges)

What is great about us is that we focus on infrastructure. We build the school and library buildings and hand them over to local groups to run. That way the schools and libraries are not dependant on regular support from us (they fund themselves) and we can show people that donate to us very clearly where your money goes (we can literally point at the building you helped to fund!)

 

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• Free, Easy to Arrange, Volunteering Opportunities in Malawi
• How You Can Help us from the UK - It's Easy and Fun!
• Lingadzi Academy Community Sports School - Learn about our latest fantastic project - this is where your money goes!
• Any Questions? Contact Us Direct Here

 

Africa School Charity

Building Futures in Malawi began life in 1988 Malawian Pastor Booker Banda visited the UK. Booker was planning to build a secondary school within his church compound in Lilongwe, Malawi. We were keen to help. We arranged a fundraising tour around Britain. Over the following years we raised enough money to build 6 classrooms and Falls secondary School was built. We then took that experience on to build more...

 

 

Since then Building Futures in Malawi has built upon the success of this school added a library at each of these schools and these libraries have been incredibly well received. The Library at Falls School receives 70,000 visits per year!

Malawi Development

We have found that projects like Falls Secondary School take a long time to develop. We invest a lot of time into everything that we do and we set firm foundations to ensure that the work we do is long lasting. We strive to ensure that the libraries, schools and sports coaching activities that we are involved with contribute toward development in Malawi. We try and tackle the issue of Malawi development in the following ways:

1. We build school buildings.
2. We run community sports coaching programmes that educate young Malawians about HIV/AIDS.
3. We help volunteers visit and help our projects.
4. We aim to link people in the UK that are interested in helping Africa with people in Malawi that need support. Help us!

 

Best Charity to Donate to

We strive to be the best charity to donate money to by ensuring that 100% of the money that you donate goes to our projects. We also ensure that we maximise the effectiveness of the money that you donate by investing the majority of the funds into sustainable projects. For example our schools are run by Malawians and they are self funding.

  

 

This means that we only spend money on the buildings. This means that you can see exactly where your money goes and more importantly it means that they are not dependent on money from us to survive. In fact we have not given a single penny to Falls School for seven years and it continues to run extremely effectively!

"To look is one thing. To see what you look at another. To understand what you see is a third. To learn from what you understand is something else. But to act on what you learn is all that really matters!'

- Benjamin Puckett

 

The Building Futures in Malawi Team

It is also important to mention that we have no paid staff in the UK. Instead we have a dedicated team of people that offer their expertise for free. Our committee are all self-funded and cover the costs of travel to and from meetings and trips to Malawi out of their own pocket. We believe strongly that your donation should go to the cause!

Let me introduce you:

  Project Manager - Tom Bowden

 

 Des Bowden

 

• Jenny Tomlinson
• Mark Broughton Taylor
• Caroline Bowden
• Phil Walker
• Rachel Balm

We are always looking for committed people to join our team and would welcome anyone that would like to become a committee member to contact us. Thanks!