To our supporters:We are having our website updated starting on the 10th July.Should take less than a week – but please forgive it behaving oddly during this time.
Who we are...
Where we work
575,000
£2.50
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705,000
Our Team
Mphatso Sasela
Chief Clinical Officer
Nazlie Chan Wing Yen
Programme Coordinator
Michael Burt
CEO
Dr Faiz Kermani
Medical Adviser
Dr Tim Wiggin
Medical Adviser
Dr Nathan De Barr
Medical Advisor
Kerith Nyirenda
Nurse
Dr Caroline Lockley
Medical Adviser
If no one cared...
We are grateful to award-winning film director Ken Howard for coming to Malawi to make a documentary about our work. You can watch the seven minute shortened version here.A donation of £25 would enable us to treat 10 sick children and maybe save a young live – please help if you can.
The Frog Who Was Blue
Our thanks to Dr Faiz Kermani who has written a children’s book called”The Frog Who Was Blue” which follows Biriwita the blue Malawian frog, with all profits going to WMF.
Want to help?
Donate
We are funded purely by donation. It costs us an average of £2.50 to treat a sick child and that includes medicines, staff salaries and fuel for our vehicles.
A donation of £25 would enable us to treat 10 sick children and maybe save a young live – please help if you can.
Get Involved
Whether you are looking to volunteer, have a fundraising idea or would be interested in a corporate sponsorship; there are many ways you can help us save young lives.
Our History
1998 – 2001 THE AIDS ORPHANS
When we began our programme in 1998 in Malawi the greatest need was support for the children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic. In the villages there was no knowledge of HIV/AIDS and it was believed that witchcraft was the cause of the “Slimmer’s disease” and the deaths of all who fell ill. It was common belief that the children orphaned by the pandemic were bewitched and they were often chased away from the village of their birth.
Out first instinct was to build orphanages but the local community made it clear they are against the African culture so we had to find a new solution and came up with concept of community based support. The programme encouraged relatives and villagers to take in the orphans and ensured they were not a burden by providing food inputs, clothing and paying the costs of schooling.
2000 – 2004 HIV/AIDS EDUCATION
There was a complete vacuum of knowledge on the subject when we began our programme in 2000. Rather than focus on adults we chose to operate in the primary and secondary schools; we operated in 106 schools, reaching over 70,000 students annually. After a three year project we ran a voluntary counselling and HIV testing project that attracted 4,500 beneficiaries and proved the success of the project with a significant reduction in the HIV +ive rate in secondary school children.
2003-NOW CHILDREN’S MOBILE CLINIC
Working in the villages we were acutely aware of the numbers of sick and dying children, denied access to medical care because of lack of transport, infrastructure and the very real challenges of poverty itself. Our simple solution was to set up Children’s Mobile Clinics and take the medical care to where the need was greatest.
2005-NOW CHILDREN LIVING WITH AIDS
We set up our Thandizo centre for children living with AIDS that is a great success and certified as a centre of excellence.
2020-NOW SCREEN & TREAT FOR CERVICAL CANCER
Malawi has the world’s highest incidence and mortality from this cancer; our planned field-based programme will detect and treat the lesions long before they develop into cancers.
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St Helen's, Low Road Norfolk PE34 3FN
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+44 (0)1553 617 166