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A child’s right to nutritious food

UN rights of the child states in article 24 that children have the right to nutritious food. Please read today’s blog and help us if you can.

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Sarah’s blog 15/4/25

The United Nations Rights of the Child states in article 24 that children have the right to the best health care possible, safe water to drink, nutritious food, a clean & safe environment and information to help them stay well.

The Sustainable Development Goals number 2 is working towards zero hunger.

As many of you know, we help to support a feeding programme that runs once a week. It’s nowhere near enough, but all we can afford as we help the community to set up sustainable projects.

500 orphans and other vulnerable children access this feeding programme. Some walk as far as 15km-20km to have this one proper meal each week. Some young people carry their younger siblings. There are NO children being fed in primary schools in rural northern Malawi. All are hungry and many are malnourished. Some girls, despite it being illegal, are married off at age 11 or 12 as their families cannot afford to feed them.

Thankfully, because they have sponsors to help support their secondary education, all students at Bright Futures Secondary School have a nutritious free school lunch each day. In the video below, Ethel explains how none of the students have any food at home.

One of the big challenges, apart from sourcing food for so many people, is that prices continue to rise and currently the price of maize, where they are, has doubled from last year, and last year’s price was double the previous year. How are people supposed to feed their families? Most are really struggling and the situation is getting worse.

There is a holiday study school running this week and next for all students at Bright Futures Secondary School and p8 at Chambo Primary School to prepare them all for upcoming exams. There are teachers to pay, notebooks & pens to buy for the students at Chambo who have none, and food for all of them each lunchtime. Please will you help us? https://donorsee.com/project/26846?share=1

Having a nutritious meal at lunchtime is a huge treat for the students in p8 at Chambo Primary School. They don’t eat during their school day normally and their biggest meal is usually at the weekly feeding programme. We could not expect these young people to do extra studying and not feed them. Will you help us please? https://donorsee.com/project/26846?share=1 or you can email contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com for other ways to donate or give through the link on our website. Donate money and gifts to Changing Lives Malawi We look forward to bringing you photos and videos from this week’s study school. Thank you for your continued help and support, Sarah x

The price of maize has quadrupled in the last two years. Families cannot afford to feed their children and we cannot afford to buy as much food with the same amount of money.
Some of the children lining up to receive food at the weekly feeding programme. They are all hungry. Many are malnourished.

‘Forgotten Voices’ – hungry children

Forgotten Voices – hungry children. We are making a few very short videos with some of the most vulnerable people talking about issues they face. These ‘Forgotten Voices’ are from the far north of Malawi where help is scarce.

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Sarah’s blog 24/3/25

We are making a few short videos under the heading ‘Forgotten Voices’. There are not many charities working in the very far north of Malawi and certainly no big charities feeding children in primary schools.

These videos are a way of hearing some of the issues that the most vulnerable face. Their stories, told in their own words, making an impact. This video is ‘Forgotten Voices’ – hungry children.

Ethel, a student at Bright Futures Secondary School, is living in extreme poverty with her aunt. She has a long walk to get to and from school. She says that she and her other fellow students do not have any food in their homes. At least these students at Bright Futures Secondary School have a nutritious free school lunch each day. The children and young people in primary schools have nothing.

We help support a feeding programme once a week that feeds approximately 500 children and young people. Some children walk for 15km/20km for that one decent meal of the week. We are trying to help set up sustainable projects but these children need feeding now. Please will you help us?

There will be an Easter holiday study school running again for the BFSS students as well as the p8 students from Chambo Primary. Feeding 60+ students from Chambo Primary every day during this study programme is a huge cost and one that we need help with. However, we will not support these holiday revision sessions without feeding these malnourished young people. How can we expect them to concentrate without having food in their tummies?

So we would love your help with feeding the students during the Easter holidays please. If you’d like to help then the link is here https://donorsee.com/project/26846?share=1

Also, the students in p8 at Chambo Primary still need new notepads and pencils (well the whole school does but we cannot afford to help them all unfortunately). If you’d like to support purchasing notepads and pencils/pens then please click here https://donorsee.com/project/25617?share=1

Or you can donate via our website or email for our bank details contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com

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Thanks to Ethel for helping to make this video about hunger

Two little films

We are loving these two short films from the students at Bright Futures Secondary School…we hope you do too!

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Sarah’s blog 10/2/25

We were asked by one of the charities who supports us to make a short video to go on their website. Two of the students at Bright Futures Secondary School, Mphatso and Hilda, helped us out with this and Levison filmed them in the library.

They thanked everyone who has supported them and continues to support them and said how much they like their school which has four classrooms. They receive free stationery and free school lunches. Hilda also said they enjoy practical science classes, practical agricultural lessons and playing sports.

Students in S2 at Bright Futures Secondary School were shown the short film and their reaction to the first video was filmed. It should, hopefully, make you smile.

Putting together a short film and photos with a professional finish is beyond my skillset unfortunately but I was able to call on one of my Facebook friends, Emma of Pineapple Digital Designs who very kindly put everything together to make two great films which we are delighted with. https://www.facebook.com/share/1EQLKvRH7N/

So the two films were sent to www.vetswithhorsepower.com who loved them and have already shared them on their social media pages. Thank you so much for supporting us again this year!

Feel free to share these two videos. These are some of the most vulnerable young people in rural northern Malawi. Before they started at BFSS most were suffering from malnutrition. They are all still hungry but at least they get one nutritious meal every school day. Most of them are orphans living with extended family and none of them would have had the opportunity of secondary education without support.

https://donorsee.com/project/25476?share=1 is the link if you’d like to help set up a beekeeping project at BFSS to help with skills for life, produce food and be an income generating project.

https://donorsee.com/project/24114?share=1 to help buy seeds for income generating projects, practical agriculture and producing own food. Or you can email us at contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com

We hope you enjoy watching these videos, Sarah x

Advent Calendar – highlighting projects & children – day 20

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Sarah’s blog 20/12/23

20th December – today we are highlighting Life on Land – Global Sustainable Development Goal 15. Students at Bright Futures Secondary School plant crops and the younger children who come to the Foundation learn life skills like planting fruit tree saplings, weeding crops and harvesting. Agricultural classes are a core part of the curriculum in Malawi.

Despite best efforts, crops do not last long when feeding 500 vulnerable children and orphans each week. More fruit tree saplings are being planted soon for future food and a sustainable income. However, your help is needed to ensure we can keep feeding the children. With food becoming scarce and prices continuing to rise as the rainy season begins if our supporters were able to commit to £5 per month it would be a big help. No big charities are feeding children in schools in this area and we need your help. https://gofund.me/d3cf8c3a  contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com 

I have had some technical help to put together all the advent calendar pictures into a little video. I was going to leave it until 24th December to post it but, as we will have other photos from Malawi later in the week, I’m sharing it now. Hope you enjoy it. Thank you all for your continued support, Sarah x

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From the rooftops

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Sarah’s blog 19/12/22

After the excitement of the weekend hearing that Bright Futures Secondary School had passed the school inspection and is now registered, I just wanted to share with you this short video that Levison took at the weekend. It is from the roof of the staff accommodation block. It gives a great view of the local area surrounding The Foundation and also how many buildings there are and how The Foundation is growing.

The electrician was attaching the solar panels we sent to the roof. The solar panels, initially, are for the incubator to hatch chicken eggs. As the electricity has been so sporadic and off for long periods of time, it’s not been possible to use it. When we can afford to, more wiring will be done so that the house and classrooms can have electric lights and sockets all being solar powered. This will be approximately £500 so it is on the long list of things to do!

We still have a few calendars left at £10 each with all money going to the school project. We have alternative gift cards, as well as cards and paintings and the link to the fundraising information is here Christmas Fundraising & news update – Changing Lives Malawi

If you would like to contribute to phase 2 of Bright Futures Secondary School then please email me contact_us@changinglivesmalawi.com or donate to our fundraiser https://gofund.me/44a92444

Thank you for reading and hope you enjoy the video, Sarah x

And more learning in Emma’s rainbow library

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Sarah’s blog 20/3/22

Here are couple of short videos of the children using the computers for the first time and also photos of them looking at the new text books that have been bought for The Library to help the children’s learning. New opportunities for these young people to be the best they can be. Thank you, Sarah x

Asante & Madalitso playing recorders

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Sarah’s blog 9/3/22

I sent 5 recorders to The Foundation on the container….looks like Asante (red trousers) and Madalitso have found them! This is great playing as they’ve never seen a recorder before. Well done boys!

I’m quite pleased too….David (one of the trustees and the technical expert) upgraded the website….so this is the first time I’ve been able to post videos! I promise I’ll leave it a few days before there are any more videos of recorder playing! Thanks for reading, watching & listening, Sarah x

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