Building Futures in Malawi

We are a small UK based charity committed to improving opportunities for children in Malawi. Building Futures in Malawi began life in 1988 when Mark Broughton - Taylor met Malawian Pastor Booker Banda at a Baptist convention in Glasgow. Booker was planning to build a secondary school within his church compound in Lilongwe, Malawi. Mark was keen to help. He arranged a fundraising tour around Britain. Over the following years they raised enough money to build 6 classrooms and Falls secondary School was built.

 

 

Since then Building Futures in Malawi has built upon the success of this school and added a second school in the south of Lilongwe. Building Futures in Malawi have recently 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 run a guest house for volunteers to visit and help our projects.
  4. We offer guidance to school committees and teachers to help Malawian schools run efficiently.
  5. 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. Let me introduce you:

 

  Chairman - Mark Broughton Taylor

 Trustee - Des Bowden

 Project Manager - Tom Bowden

 Sandy Broughton - Taylor

 

 
Additional Trustees:

Committee Members:

 


Unusual Auction Raises Money For BFIM Library Project

Monday 16th August 2010

BFIM garden Party 2010The recent Building Futures in Malawi Blues and Rock Garden Party went down a storm. Not only did a larger than ever crowd revel in the unique atmosphere that was electrified by some of the best musical talent in Colchester, the charity gift auction was an unusual turn of events. As regular guests of the BFIM music event will know, each year a cake is auctioned off to raise money to improve the lives of children in Malawi, but this year there was a surprise in store for the guests. An employee of sponsors High Position, an Essex based search engine optimisation company, offered themselves up for bidding in return for a night out on the tiles. In good spirit Kerry McCarthy was won by colleague Tobias Bowman and the pair spent an evening drinking fine wine and eating good food, followed by some dancing at a local nightclub. In total the event raised a stunning £5,900 which will go towards the latest project, building a community sports school which includes a secondary school, sports fields, community centre and library amongst many other things.

 
 

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