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Sunday Sports for Students

Thanks to teachers at Bright Futures Secondary School for organising Sunday sports for students!

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Sarah’s blog 10/2/26

We were delighted to receive these photos and videos yesterday from the deputy head teacher at Bright Futures Secondary School. It was a day of Sunday sports for students and we are grateful to the teachers for organising this event. It looks like everyone had great fun playing football and netball.

Yesterday taught these vulnerable teenagers, who are mostly all orphans living with extended family, that they are important. It shows that people care about them enough to organise events for them. It shows that people care about them enough to send preloved sports kit for them. These young people are enjoying opportunities that they wouldn’t previously have had. As well as having fun with their friends, team sports are good for their confidence and self-esteem. Students at Bright Futures Secondary School are also learning skills and self-discipline.

Everyone also received a nutritious lunch to make the day even more special and to ensure they had enough energy to take part in the team sports. We are thankful for those who support us to send preloved sports kit to those who need it. If these are photos of preloved kit from your club then why not share with your friends and ask them to follow us on social media?

Sports kit (depending on sizes) is shared between primary and secondary schools and grassroots sports teams. Everyone is delighted to receive smart, matching kit. Julian Chenery, whose charity is ‘Wear a Sports Shirt Day’, spends his weekends travelling to various football grounds collecting preloved kit, watching football matches and enjoying the odd pint! We are so pleased that he includes the young people we are helping to support on his list of recipients of the preloved kit he collects.

In these photos kit is being worn from Bromley and Beckenham Hockey Club, Maidstone United Football Club, Borden Village Football Club and Seaton Town Football Club. As you can see, these preloved sports kits have a new lease of life and young people are enjoying wearing them proudly and confidently. Acts of kindness like this make a huge difference. There will be photos in the near future of more sports kit that has arrived on the latest container.

Would you like to help to pay for a box of sports kit to go on the container or would you like to contribute to providing food for a sporting event like this? Please do get in touch contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com or you can donate via our website or QR code. It’s always about teamwork. Thank you for being part of our team, Sarah x

Heavy rain & earth tremors

Heavy rains continue as 200 children brave the weather and long walk to get a free meal to fill their tummies. http://www.changinglivesmalawi.com

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Sarah’s blog 05/05/24

Life is so tough for the children and young people we help to support in rural northern Malawi.

Heavy rains continue and there have been earth tremors felt from an earthquake further south. Thankfully, we don’t think there is any damage to any of the childrens’ homes (which are just mud huts or a very basic brick one room houses)…there was no damage to the buildings on campus.

What do you do when you are desperately hungry but it’s heavy rain and you’ve got to walk a long way to get your one proper, nutritious meal of the week at The Feeding Programme? Do you go out and get soaked through? Or do you stay dry at home? Do you have to try to cross small rivers that are now deeper and faster flowing? Or do you stay at home and suffer the hunger pains that they surely must all be feeling?

Here, we all have coats, hats, umbrellas, walking shoes or wellies….not there. Yes, some now have coats that we have been able to send….others don’t. Some have shoes….some don’t. All will be feeling cold and tired and so hungry as they make their way to The Feeding Programme. contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com

Today, there were only approximately 200 children out of the usual 500 ventured out in those awful conditions to have a proper meal. How I wish we could do more for them. We’ve done so much in the last five years but, because no big charities are feeding children in schools in the far north (nor do they have any plans to) we cannot ignore the fact that thousands of children are suffering from malnutrition. The Feeding Programme was one of the first projects that we helped to implement. Teachers started noticing a difference in the children’s concentration even after one meal a week. Imagine we could feed them five days a week? Feeding them once a week is a struggle while we try to set up sustainable projects and support education for the most vulnerable young people. Feeding them costs money and we rely on our supporters to help us to help them.

Will you help us feed these children so we can continue to send funds to provide 500 orphans and vulnerable children with a substantial, nutritious meal once a week while we set up sustainable projects that will provide them with food and an income? The end goal is self-sufficiency but things have been so bad for this community that it is going to take a while for them to get back on their feet. Will you make a one off donation? Or can you commit to paying £5 or £10 per month to support the feeding programme? Life isn’t fair, these children need our help. contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com Together we can help these vulnerable children out of poverty and out of the malnutrition that each of them is suffering. Thank you, Sarah x

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