May 2026 Newsletter - Highlights - Click here

from the Starfish UK & Malawi Teams.

Dear Friends and Supporters,

This month the newsletter is actually being written in Malawi – the Warm Heart of Africa. When you read this, the UK team will have just arrived home after an amazing and positive three-week trip. 

We want to highlight a few of the things that they have been engaged in as well as some other items.

Glad Tidings Nurseries

The team visited all four of the nurseries and were so encouraged by the quality of teaching and the attention of the children to what they were being taught.

The teachers were overjoyed to be told that three of the nurseries will be having an additional classroom built so that the third class will no longer have to meet under a tree. 

Two nurseries will have a kitchen building built and all will have repairs done to the floors.  All this has been made possible by funding from individuals and from One World Group in Oxted, to whom we are so grateful.

To read more about the work at GTOC please click here 

For more information about One World Group Oxted, please click here 

Heel the World by Michael Jackson’s Legacy

We were fortunate to have with us two representatives of MJL, who have been instrumental in supporting and funding the Everland Special Needs Centre and teacher’s houses.

They brought out hundreds of their special “growing” shoes that expand as the child’s feet grow. 

These were distributed, along with MJL bags for the children to use for their school books etc,  to all the children at Everland and two nurseries. 

Another batch of shoes will be distributed to the remaining two nurseries later this year. 

We really appreciate the support of MJL in our work, and it was so lovely to see all the children walking around in their new shoes!

For more about Everland, please click here 

For more information about MJL, please click here 

Schools Linking – Live Links

During the trip we have conducted a number of live links, enabling the children in Malawi to connect to their linked UK school. This has been done using zoom.

The children ask each other pre-prepared questions through which they find out more about each other’s schools and about what they do at school. 

The live link also enables the UK school to see some of the Malawian school as the laptop camera is used to tour the school a little.

During the year the schools also connect with each other on their WhatsApp groups so that they can share anything they have been doing in their schools.  

For more information about schools linking, please click here 

Aftrak

We were so pleased to have this solar powered rotavator demonstrated to the community at Ngolowindo during the UK team’s trip.

Two of the research engineers from Aftrak showed how this piece of equipment can really benefit farming. It ploughs deep into the soil breaking the hard pan and enabling the seeds to be sown deeper allowing crops to grow better as the roots go deeper and the trough between the growing ridges are deep, so that the water can be held for longer. 

Starfish have purchased one of these rotavators, which is on our container and will be in use as part of the community feeding programme. We are grateful to Aftrak for partnering with us in this work.

For information about Aftrak, please click here

2026 Trip videos

You may well have seen some of the trip videos which have been sent out by email, but if not, then please go to our website and this page below so you can view them.

We have tried to provide you some visual content of the various projects that the team have been visiting, and we hope that they will encourage you and bring to life what you have read about them.

View the videos click here 

Salima Floods Appeal

This appeal is still open to the end of May so that the opportunity is given to as many as possible to donate to it. 

We are very grateful to all those who have given so far as we have raised nearly £3,000. 

If you are able to share this appeal with others, we would appreciate it.

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Our website is full of information about our projects and much more.

Please spend some time having a look at all the pages, you will be able to get a much better idea of what we are doing to make a real difference to the children, their families and communities.

www.starfishmalawi.com 

"Together, we are making a world of difference, one life at a time."

Mission Direct Video

We have created a video for volunteers to share their trip and their churches with family and friends.

Watch the Video below

The recent clothes distribution.

This was from the second container donated by Barnabas Aid.

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