Welcome to ECPP (Malawi)

ECPP (Malawi) office

Chambe Nursery

ECPP (Malawi) primarily addresses the plight of Orphans in the Southern region of Malawi together with issues related to HIV/AIDS.

The fully staffed office is situated at Chitakale in the Mulanje district.

Our Aims:

To work with local partners to provide quality care and support for Orphans between the ages of 0-18, whilst ensuring that they continue to live within their communities.

Our Objectives

To support Orphan centres with basic infrastructures e.g buildings, boreholes etc.
Provide Orphans with basic health care.
Provide Orphans with educational materials and equipment.
Support the Life Skills Resource Centres with equipment and training.
Support the Orphan centres in developing food security programmes.
Provide appropriate management and technical support to the service providers including volunteers.
Monitor and evaluate the activities provided by the different centres.
Ensure sustainability of the projects.

Achievements in 2007

School children in Chambe

1. The construction of Mpala has commenced and is due to be commissioned in the new year.
2. The Orphan centre in Mozambique has commenced and the children have registered for tailoring and sports activities. The border regulations hindered the movement of necessary equipment from Malawi. However, we have established a supplier in Mozambique.
3. Our health care programme has continued to improve both the orphans’ and volunteers’ health. The nurse has been visiting the centres on a weekly basis ensuring that the children get examined, advised and treated.
4. The children are supplied with soap twice a month in order to ensure good hygiene.
5. All centres now have nursery classes and we conducted one week training for the nursery teachers on Early Childhood and Development in conjunction with the District Social Welfare Department using the UNICEF Government Child Development guidelines. The training involved Children Rights, working with disabled children, child-centred approach to
learning and language development.
6. All the centres with nursery classes are provided with Likuni Pala - a high protein porridge which promotes for growth.
7. The centres are now open on Saturdays to enable the children to get together for games and music. This prevents children from loitering around the villages and getting into mischief. It also alleviates the burden on the carers and guardians of feeding the children.
8. The feeding programme has improved the children’s health and reduced the rate of drop outs from school.
9. The skills training programme has enlightened and exposed the children to possible vocational training available after they complete secondary school. These skills can enable them to start up small enterprises later on in life.
10. The centres now are able to sell the products such as tin pails, watering cans and wooden doors and use the funds to finance small needs such as purchase of salt.

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The Patient can be as knowledgeable as the expert, but is uniquely placed to have a holistic view of their condition