Malawi Dream in the News

"The true Angel of Africa"
Daily Express November 25th 2006
By Anna Pukas

"Sonia Waters devotes her life to improving the lives of Malawi's most impoverished. Her incredible story shows how, unlike Madonna, one person can bring hope to a whole community without adoption."

The Times Online.
Friday, December 08, 2006

The garden that's saving a Malawi village & why it needs your help...Supplied with seed and tools by Englishwoman, Sonia Waters, it is providing enough food that the 56 schoolchildren, many orphaned by AIDS, no longer have to go to school without breakfast. Or lunch.

After visiting the village of Likoma on holiday in 2005 Sonia, wife of an eminent lawyer, set up a non profit making organisation to help the villagers help themselves. Sonia bought the land and supplied the seed to start the garden which feeds the village and makes enough surplus to sell. Kale and lettuce do particularly well. Now goats - in a specially built pen so they can't ravage the countryside - have been added to the kitchen garden area. This has transformed life for the villagers who used to depend on subsistence fishing or, for just 40 islanders, jobs at the one hotel. There are no shops.

But there's a problem. The women have to get up at 4 am to bring water from the lake to the garden. They bring the water on pots carried on their heads. They need a water pump. Any money you can give via the website above will go straight to this project.

Sonia already has a track record of effective direct action. A scheme she started at a school The Gambia is now self sustaining - which is what Sonia aims to achieve in Mbungo

Here is a clip of Sonia talking about Malawi Dream:

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Libraries
We're delighted that the shipment of books that resulted from our 'Book for Christmas' appeal last year has now arrived on Likoma.

It will help to develop school libraries, ensuring that every child has more reading material in future.

Kaya Mawa Lodge
Kaya Mawa lodge is the main hotel on Likoma. We'd like to thank James and Suzie (who manage it) for their help and support. Without them, our projects would be much further from reality.

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