December 2025 Newsletter - Highlights - Click here

from the Starfish UK & Malawi Teams.

Dear Friends and Supporters,

This month we want to share some good news from our nurseries, progress on protecting our Glad Tidings building, plus some other stories.

We continue to thank God for His blessings on our work and for our many loyal supporters without whom we could not do the work and help so many children and families.

Nurseries

We are so grateful to have received funding for the provision of chairs for our nurseries. The children were so pleased and joyful when they arrived.

To be able to sit on chair instead on a hard concrete floor is so much better for both their wellbeing and their ability to learn.    

We also wanted to share with you that as part of their Christmas Appeal, One World Group Oxted are including our project to add an extra room onto three of our nurseries.

We are so grateful to them for doing this and hope that we will be able to begin construction of these in May 2026.
 
For more information about One World Group Oxted, please click here
 
Full details of our work in the nurseries can be found here

Glad Tidings Roof

The Glad Tiding building at Ngolowindo needed some maintenance on the roof as the iron sheets were showing signs of age and some rust had started to appear. We are delighted that the team have now painted the roof to protect it for the next few years. 

The building walls were repainted last year by the Mission Direct team so it now has some more year’s life in it!  

We are so pleased and grateful that this building was purchased and given to the work many years ago by a group who visited our work and saw the need in the community for nursery care.

Since then, the work among the early years children has steadily grown and has made a huge impact on these children and their families.

Update on our Christmas appeal for Malaria Packs

We are so pleased and grateful to all of those who have donated to this appeal.

Our current total is nearly £ 1,300.  

This will provide many packs to mothers with new babies who will be using our new maternity facility.

It will make a real difference for them in the next malaria period during the rainy season in early 2026.  With this simple protection the risk of catching malaria is reduced.

Our appeal is still open at click here 

Highlights of the year

There are so many great stories that we have shared with you over the year but a couple of our highlights for this year must be:

The beginnings of our community feeding programme at Chikuluti and Katitima schools.

We are so encouraged by the communities who have learnt a new way of farming which we hope will lead to a more sustainable crop and harvest. With the help of funding from Rye Bakeries, the schools have been able to feed nearly 3,000 children in the hungry months of January to April this year.

This year we have partnered with the Tiyeni organisation who have been training the communities to dig deeper troughs to plant the seeds, giving the possibility of a higher yield and have been showing how a water irrigation system will keep the crop watered, even when rains fail.

The work towards the expansion of Hope Clinic -
During this year we have seen the completion of the maternity facility, including the installation of medical equipment and resources. 

Recently a shelter for those who accompany the pregnant women, has been built together with toilets and showers.

We are currently in the process of procuring a temporary solar power system which will provide enough light and power to enable the facility to open and function. 

We then hope to provide a larger solar power system, when funds allow, for both maternity and main clinics, plus all seven medical staff houses.

As we come to the end of another year, we want to sincerely thank all our supporters, partners, trusts and organisations who have faithfully prayed for the work, provided funds for development and continuation of the projects and have enabled us to start new initiatives that will have a lasting effect on the communities that we work with.
 
We believe that God still has work for us to do into the future for His glory.  With this hope in our hearts, we look forward to the opening of Hope for Life Maternity facility in 2026.

This will bring so much joy to the community.  

"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.

November 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

October 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

September 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

August 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

July 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

June 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

May 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

April 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

March 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read

February 2025 Newsletter

Please click here to read the reports

January 2025 Newsletter

Please click here

December 2024 Newsletter

Please click here

If you’d like to receive the newsletter monthly directly to your email account.

Please complete the form at the bottom of the page