The Trust seeks to promote opportunity in Malawi by improving access to justice, access to education, and access to healthcare services. Most of our projects involve working in partnership with existing Malawi-based organisations.
Improving access to justice
For most Malawians, the government Legal Aid Department presents the only opportunity for legal representation or even sound legal advice. It has always been chronically under-resourced and under-staffed.
We have been able to provide the Legal Aid Department with a well-stocked law library. This is now the best law library in the country, and will have a major positive impact on the quantity and quality of legal advice and representation available to ordinary Malawians.
>> more about the Legal Aid Department library.
Each year we give a bursary to a well motivated law student who would otherwise struggle to afford the fees. Bursaries are offered on condition that recipients are employed by the Legal Aid Department as interns in the vacations and full-time for three years after graduation.
>> more about the law scholarships.
Improving access to healthcare
We have helped Ndi Moyo to establish a palliative care centre in Salima. The centre provides desperately needed care for terminally ill people. The Trust has purchased and renovated a property next door to the clinic. This will be used initially as the administrative centre. As the clinic expands, our building will also be used as an accommodation and training centre for nursing staff.
>> more about our work with Ndi Moyo.
We have purchased crucial medical equipment and a library of medical books for the small rural hospital at Mua. This brings a major improvement to the medical care this chronically under-resourced hospital can offer.
>> more about our work with Mua Hospital.
Children and education projects
We are working with the small UK-based charity Temwa to support education in Usisya, a very remote mountain area in northern Malawi. We have built a primary school classroom block and are funding 14 scholarships to cover secondary school fees for students who could not otherwise afford to pay.
>> more about our school support scheme.
WWe are assisting Tikondane, a small project working with street children in Lilongwe. The Nick Webber Trust has funded 15 places at state boarding schools for homeless children who cannot be reunited with their families, and a further 20 places for children considered by the centre to be at serious risk in their own communities. This ensures that they will be safe, as well as giving them the chance of an education. We have promised the same level of funding every year until at least 2011.
We have also funded much-needed renovations to the Tikondane building to make the project safer and more efficient.
