The Container

Each year we send a large container to Malawi which takes approx. 3 months to get there by ship.

Many items are donated which are sorted, weighed and packed into boxes. Jo and her team do an amazing job enabling the final packing of the container to be done in a precise way, so that every space is used up. Approx 15 tons of goods will be on board!

Programme Aim:

Where resources are scarce, the container allows Starfish to dispatch desperately needed items to Malawi so that we can express our desire to "love our neighbour" and give generously. We send this out once a year, depending on demand. We send this out once a year, depending on demand.

During the many years of sending containers we have sent so many wonderful items to be used in schools, Glad Tidings, Hope Clinic, Salima hospital and more.

Items have included Singer sewing machines, thousands of pairs of shoes, bicycles, tons of clothes, hundreds of knitted blankets, wheelchairs, hospital beds, maternity resources, thousands of books and Bibles ….in fact anything that is considered to be of value for our work in Malawi.

We hire out space per cubic metre to other charities or schools who wish to send items to Malawi.

Please contact us for prices and details. admin@starfishmalawi.com

Christian Practice

In a land of plenty, we in the UK are not aware of the great needs of others in the world, who live in poverty. The Bible repeatedly encourages us to be open-handed to the poor. Generosity is one of the hallmarks of the Christian character.

Acts 20:35 says,

“ “In everything I did, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive. ””