Here are a few of the initiatives that Cherish International is now supporting:
Kwacha Visions Peoples Care (KVPC) — New
Kwacha Visions Peoples Care KVPC is a community centre located in Chilobwe, approximately 5km from Blantyre City Centre. The centre opened in 2007 and its main focus is to help orphans and children from nearby villages that have been diagnosed with HIV, with counselling services and basic primary education.
Their biggest challenge is to raise funds and provide for 65 children. Given that the centre currently has limited access to clean water, sanitation and electricity, Cherish International is hoping to provide children at KVPC with at least two meals a day – which until last year consisted of basic rations, limited to just ONE bowl of porridge a day.
How can you help?
Regular donations will help us provide children in need with at least two basic meals a day, consisting of maize, porridge, clean water, charcoal, vegetables, oil, beans and rice. The approximate cost for basic rations is approximately £850 a month.
Haven of Rest / Chrissie's Orphanage — New
Over the past seven years, Haven of Rest have built up an orphanage in the rural outskirts of Blantyre (Chidzaro and Chiswe) and are feeding, clothing and educating 250 children. The orphanage continues to struggle with providing for the children with most of them receiving just ONE meal a day. As such, the establishment is desperate for funds to ensure that its orphans are properly fed and continue striving under their care.
How can you help?
Cherish International's aim is to help feed at least half of these children, by providing larger meals and other facilities. Approximately £10 a month will help feed at least 162 orphans and this is where we need your support.
Malawi Against Physical Disabilities (MAP) Wheelchair Collection — New
Since 1995, people with physical disabilities have been relying on MAP to provide free wheelchairs, crutches, tricycles and other mobile assistive devices. Due to a lack of funding, MAP have been unable to manufacture wheelchairs or service old equipment. The organisation has also had to cease outreach clinics due to a severe lack of support.
At present, the MAP rehabilitation centre is in desperate need of:
- Wheelchairs
- Elbow and Axilla Crutches
- Walkers
- Sanitary items like diapers, towels, gloves
- Condom catheters
- Paraffin gauze, GV paint for plaster rolls
- Bandages any size, elastic
- Disposable Aprons
- Shortwave Diathermy with pulse / heavy duty
- Cervical cum lumbar traction
- Traction bed nerve muscle stimulators
- Traction machine deluxe
Past Initiatives
Mountain View School: 2006 – 2013
Established in 1997, Mountain View School in Malawi aims to provide education for children with hearing disabilities. With Cherish International's support, the school grew from a mere 24 pupils (ages 5 upwards) to over 175, and offered free education and accommodation, with 18 teachers and 16 support staff. Your donations allowed the school to better cater to the children’s needs, funding the cost of food, health care, education materials, security and accommodation.
Pallanpur — October 2007
Cherish International was responsible for providing eye-care & homeopathic assessment (Dr A Weissner). This was one of the first trips where two sixth form students, Simran and Avneet volunteered by helping with registration/admin and English language classes.
Eye camp in Gurgaon, India — February 2006
This project was in conjunction with Niramaya charitable trust where a team of six optometrists, provided free sight examinations and glasses in different villages and referrals for cataract surgery.
