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Smiling Malawi

New shop now open for hand made Nchima Trust Centre Cards - no Registration required - Cards for every occasion- CLICK HERE

 

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The Nchima Trust targets its funds and donations in a very direct manner, ensuring that the money gets to the causes and people intended. We fund the training of between 20 and 40 university students each year plus up to 100 secondary school students. We also set up and support the Nchima Trust Centre where we host and encourage various entrepreneurial activities such as the card makers.

We recently had a 15 year old orphan referred to us. He had no family to support him and found work on a farm. He was a good worker but once the farmer discovered that he was below the legal age of employment, he had no choice but to dismiss him. Feeling that the boy deserved more, the farmer made contact with the Nchima Trust volunteer in Malawi and within a fortnight the boy had been found a good boarding school and we dropped him off at the school with a blanket, soap, toothpaste and other essentials. 3 weeks later he called to say how happy he was and asked for his bus fare to the school football match as he had been selected for the school's first eleven! Our presence, reputation and network of supporters on the ground enable the Trust to react quickly and effectively and to follow up.

  

 

About us

The Nchima (pronounced 'Encheema') Trust is a small charity, originally founded in 1962 by the Gardiner family.

The Nchima Trust only provides funds for projects within Malawi. Donations are presently concentrated on Health, Education, Rural Credit, Orphan Support and a thriving Community Centre at Thyolo. The Trust has developed a strong focus on sponsoring education.

Donations are targetted and monitored carefully. On the ground in Malawi we have one or two unpaid volunteers who ensure that all funding is spent appropriately. The volunteers meet student beneficiaries regularly to obtain feedback on their progress, oversee projects and distribute items listed in the
gift list.

The Nchima Trust
expenses relate to a vehicle which the Trust runs in Malawi and one or two flights a year from the UK to Malawi for UK based trustees who visit existing projects and students in order to ensure that the objectives of the Trust are being adequately met and also to investigate potential new projects and meet new contacts.


The Nchima Trust has no paid employees.

Its early operations were in the Thyolo and Blantyre districts in the Southern Region of Malawi. 

Later the Trust extended its activities to meet the needs of individuals and communities throughout the country.

  
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