The Landirani Trust
Sarah, an English lady moved to our compound in October, my initial conversation with Sarah has been exchanging greetings, until recently in November during our infamous braais (bar-ba-que) that I learnt we had much in common, maternal health, promoting wellbeing of mother and baby. During our conversation, I also discovered my church; ‘Flood Church’ supports the Landirani Trust. Prior to the official opening of the maternity unit members of Flood church gave gifts to the newly built maternity unit.
A brief report on the work of the Landirani Trust, the Landirani Trust will very much appreciate your support to stay on track with the Millennium Development Goal (MDG)2015, reducing maternal deaths (MDG5), and drastically reduce the high incident rate of neonatal deaths in Malawi, (MGD4). Currently Malawi has one of the highest infant mortality and morbidity rates in the world. The contributing factors to maternal and premature deaths are due to a number of factors as follows;-
· Poor nutritional intake by mothers
· Pregnant young mothers/girls
· No/lack of equipment, i.e. incubators, bag & masks and essential drugs
· Power failures, (no generator)
· Women having to travel far to health facilities, (women having to walk miles to their nearest health facilities)
· Opting for home deliveries and being attended to by a traditional birth attendant (TBAs) using unsafe practices (not qualified midwives).
Please help us make a difference to women and children in Malawi and worldwide, by supporting The Landirani Trust. Together we can reduce both maternal and neonatal deaths in Malawi, giving mothers and their babies/children a better outcome in life.
Sarah Parsloe, The Landirani Trust
We are 8 ½ years old and as with the best organisations, grew out of a ‘small but committed’ group of people who came to Malawi and wanted to make a difference. We work in the rural community North West of Lilongwe airport and work with 25 schools and 7 CBCCs in 14 centres supported by 98 volunteers. Our community is 45,000 stronger spread over 400 sq. km and we support over 3,000 orphans and vulnerable people. We focus on
- health (like the maternity unit);
- water and sanitation (a partnership with Rotary International has seen nearly 50 boreholes installed in our area)
- education (15 school partnership and 46 scholarship students)
- self-sufficiency (100 female groundnut growers and 7 planned self-sufficient food gardens)
- orphan care (over 1000 OVCs this year have received support including school uniforms, food distributions and clothing)
What would really help us to support our work would be assistance with, or the donations of:
- a bicycle ambulance to enable us to get sick people and pregnant ladies to the nearest clinic or health facility
- a food fridge & drugs fridge, scanner, bedding and medical supplies for the new maternity unit
- a solar pump and/or solar panels so we can finalise a water supply at the new maternity unit
- new t-shirt s for our 98 community-based volunteers (it is over four years since we are last able to provide them with these)
- school equipment such as books, pens/pencils and general stationery, and sponsors for scholarship students
- wheelchairs, hearing aids, walking sticks and white sticks, knee and hand pads (for those with no lower limbs), sunscreen and sun-glasses
The Landirani Trust
PO Box 30928 / 3-331 Barron Avenue
Lilongwe 3
Tel: +265 991 332 801 / +265 175 9005 / +44 7930 472295 (UK only)
See photos of unit, bicycle ambulance, previous and new maternity unit.
The Landirani Trust appreciates your support.
As we say in Malawi Zikomo Kwambiri – Thank you very much!
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