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Research and More Research
The last couple of weeks have flown by. Alongside the grassroots coaching sessions mentioned in my previous blogs, I have made it my mission to network my way around Malawi and meet the necessary...
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Alice Healey
I’d always known that I wanted to travel and see the world, and hopefully volunteer somewhere so I could help people in the process. I guess it’s because I’ve never been one to stay in my comfort zone...
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Improving the Girls Musical Skills
Volunteer Alice Healy spent two weeks at Tilinanu working on improving the musical skills of the girls there and the boys from the foster home. Alice achieved a huge amount in this time. Her story is...
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Setting up a Recording Studio Business
In 2011 the Strummerville foundation built a music centre at Tilinanu, they also provided us with equipment for a music studio courtesy of Mike Warren. Initially the studio was also set up at Tilinanu...
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Why Fundraising WORKS!
I first heard about LSU in February when I met Alice in El Salvador. I had always wanted to volunteer but never came across an organisation I believed worked in a truly sustainable way that continued...
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Luke Slater
While performing at Unknown Festival I found a pair of Love Specs on the floor. I instinctively started putting them on everyone I met and didn’t take them off for the rest of the festival. I had...
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Meeting a Malawian Football Star
Recently I have had an amazing opportunity to work with a local U20 club – DD Sunshine. It was like a breath of fresh air watching them train for the first time. The boys and girls train together and...
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A Night To Remember…
What an evening! Last night thanks to the blood, sweat and (at times!) tears of Wendy and Pippa, two of our most inspirational volunteers to date, the girls of Tilinanu absolutely blew us away. Having...
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Setting up a Fish Trading Business
Agnes Macroyd has 5 children including disabled Judy. She is unable to afford school fees for her children so the Love Support Unite Foundation stepped in to help. Agnes husband died 8 years ago, she...
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Sophie Riley
I can first remember hearing about Tilinanu through school, when I was about 12 years old, but it wasn’t until later on that I became aware that Love Support Unite existed. I have always wanted to be...
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Scarlett Duckett – Age 11
In October 2014 the Duckett family visited Malawi to help the Love Support Unite Foundation with some of their outreach projects and give their 3 children an insight into how African children live....
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Comparing African and English school life
In October 2014 the Louise Monaghan and her three children visited Malawi to help the Love Support Unite Foundation with some of their outreach projects and give their 3 children an insight into how...
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Alex Duckett – Age 16
In October 2014 the Duckett family visited Malawi to help the Love Support Unite Foundation with some of their outreach projects and give their 3 children an insight into how African children live....
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Ibzie Duckett – Age 8
In October 2014 the Duckett family visited Malawi to help the Love Support Unite Foundation with some of their outreach projects and give their 3 children an insight into how African children live....
View ArticleJust A Little Something To Think About…
“The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.” ― Maya Angelou On Friday 7th November 2014, we lost an astounding woman. Mercy Mkandawire was a surrogate mother to...
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Adam Moralee – Return Trip
I made a promise to myself in June that I would return to Malawi to work with the Love Support Unite Foundation once again. Admittedly I was a little skeptical as to whether it would be financially...
View ArticleThe Truth of the Matter – A Word From Alice.
Life has its ways of surprising you – catching you off guard and taking you down a direction that you perhaps are not even conscious of yet. It works in a powerful, yet beautiful way that I don’t think...
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Revisiting Mkunkhu School
Today saw my return to the Mkunhku School, the school that I helped build the foundations for earlier this year. The school itself provides education for 350-400 children. As soon as the children saw...
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Settling into the Project Proper
Just a short post this week, it’s been a busy week and it feels like everyone is settling into the project. The more we get to know each other and the differences in our cultures the easier...
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