If
you can help to extend water provision or foster contacts with the University
of Mzuzu or help in any other way, please contact
us and we will forward your approach to the appropriate person.
some
items from 2005
this
section will be updated in September 2007
Dec
25th: Lots
of Xmas cards, made by Hastings Mkandawire of the Delia
Arts Centre, Mzuzu, are in Irvine homes.
Oct 27th:
The Central African Rotary District Governorvisited
St Peter's Secondary, saw the science equipment being used in the school,
was very impressed and thanked Seagate Rotary Club for its timely donation.
Oct 25th: The Director of
the agency Cadecom wrote: "We would like to support more
villages with boreholes and vertical gardens. One village has
already been identified." - if anyone reading this
would like to help, please contact us - each borehole costs about £2500.
Oct 24th: The President
of Mzuzu Rotary wrote to the President of Irvine Seagate Rotary,
saying: "Your concept ,"Meeting needs in Mzuzu",
has definitely put a new lease of life in our club activities and the
recipients in our community are extremely grateful for the projects you
have initiated."
Oct. 22nd: A feeding programme starts
in Galamala village to reduce malnutrition (and deaths) during the current
famine, based on funds from St Michael's and Seagate Rotary. St
Michael's also allocates funds for orphan centres to help feeding
programmes in the current emergency. Oct 10th: The Altrusa Club
collects surplus Maths books from Whitehill Secondary
(Glasgow) to go out to Mzuzu schools
How
it started - a
long-term project inspired by Bernadette McFadden:
In June 2002, Bernadette
McFadden, a young Maths teacher at St Michael's Academy in Kilwinning (Irvine,
the next town to Kilwinning, is on this map), decided to devote one year of
her career to teaching in a developing country. Placed in Malawi by the World
Mission, she spent a year at the small St Peter's Secondary in Mzuzu, and on
her return has organised much help for the people and children of that area,
an area with few resources and many needs. Her talk to the Rotary Club of Irvine
Seagate sparked the Rotary project in the same
area.
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Where is Mzuzu? Mzuzu lies at the northernmost end of the Viphya
Mountains - move the mouse slowly over the map to find the right spot. It is
essentially a hub for timber products from the extensive plantations on the
mountains, coffee and tea from closer by, and rubber down by the lake. The University's
first faculties were of Education, Health Sciences and Forestry, to be followed
by Agriculture and Energy. Life there is very different from that of the capital,
Blantyre, 400 miles (600km) further south. The other countries which appear
on the map shown here are Zambia to the west, and Tanzania and Mozambique on
the far side of Lake Nyasa/Malawi. Galamala village, where
the boreholes have been drilled, is also indicated by a hot spot on the map.
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video of a
Galamala mother using a Seagate Rotary borehole - a test video - more to come
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water for the people of Galamala, a rural village west of Mzimba (see
map)
How
it started - a
long-term project inspired by Bernadette McFadden: