Achievements & Work in Progress

Report for 2022/2023 Harvest

April 2022 saw the management of the Farming Project along with Harvest Fund and School Feeding programme handed over in its entirety to the Seed for Life Development Company based in Malawi made up of Directors from the local Community at Bemvu.

• 298 farmers each received hybrid maize seed and fertiliser in the Autumn of 2022
• Total tonnage of Maize paid back to the Company 134t
• Weight of maize required for School Feeding – 15t
• Weight available to sell to finance coming year- 119t
• The area was hit by Typhoon Freddie which caused widespread damage and flooding just as the crop was about to ripen

We are now turning our attention to the Scholarship Programme which sponsors children through their secondary education, there is no point in feeding the Community without providing the wherewithal to get them out of the poverty trap that they find themselves in with subsistence farming. At least with a basic education it enables them to seek other paid work and even advance to Further Education.

We are also sponsoring two students through their four year course at University.

 

         

    

 

   

  

The University courses and secondary schooling is over a four year period which we commit to finishing when we take on a new pupil, to this end we require regular income and would invite anyone to complete a monthly standing order along with a gift aid form if appropriate, we are not looking for large amounts just lots of small donations which will give you the satisfaction that you are helping to change the lives of these children forever, but will allow us to continue to budget accurately.

Letters from Students in Scholarship Fund

Progress reports from the scholarship students 2022