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ZOMBA ACTION PROJECT
SUPPORTED BY
ZOMBA
ACTION
PROJECT 11th
ANNUAL REPORT
2013-14
“We were warmly greeted by people from
the five surrounding villages who sang
songs and danced for us. We started work
on painting Ana ndi Athu, a child care
centre that ZAP has funded. It has been
greatly appreciated by everyone and will
be used once fully completed as a Pre
school and then once a month as a
medical centre” reported ‘The Kilrea Five’,
who made the building attractive to the
children adding learning resources to the
decoration.
Charles Mukiwa from Emmanuel
International, who, working with the
community, planned and built it said “It’s
a dream come true”
ZOMBA
MALAWI
COLERAINE
N IRELAND
Investing in their future
AFRICA
Opening ceremony of Ana
ndi Athu Child Care Centre
Children’s first sight of the
inside of the Centre
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ZOMBA ACTION PROJECT is the charity set up in March 2003, following the
establishment of the COLERAINE-ZOMBA partnership, initiated by the
Coleraine Borough Council.
It raises and manages funds for approved projects to help disadvantaged
people in ZOMBA, MALAWI and in doing so helps give the COLERAINE
community an increased world vision.
ACTIVITIES:
Working with partner focus groups in Zomba:
To identify and supervise projects that contribute most to alleviating
disadvantage
To raise funds to support and finance sustainable projects
COLERAINE ZAP Board of Management
Chairperson: Rev Dr Terry McMullan, Secretary: Mr Paul Snelling, Committee
Chairpersons: Church - Mrs Christine Adams, Development: Mr Maurice McNicholl,
Education: Ms Roisin McCaughan, Health: Mrs Margaret Henderson. Co-opted Members:
Mrs Ruth McCracken, Mrs Joyce McMullan
Coleraine Borough Council Representatives: Cllrs Yvonne Boyle, William King MBE,
Roisin Loftus
ZOMBA ZAP Board of Management
Co-ordinator/Consultant: Dr Nellie Mbano, Chairman/Consultant: Mr Zondiwe Mbano,
Secretary: Mrs Lydia Chidotha, Treasurer: Mr Benjamin Khoswe, Assistant Treasurer:
Mr Tom Matande, Committee Chairpersons: Church: Mr Psalm Chinyamo, Development:
Education: Mr Lackson K Mteleka, Health: Mrs Jean Machinjili, Zomba City Council
Representative: Mr Fred Nankuyu, Administrator: Mrs Estella Saka
Working together to assist communities in the Zomba area to:
Enjoy better health and education
Move towards sustainable development
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Chairman’s Report
In my report last year I expressed the hope that a group of young adults would go to
Zomba in 2014 for a few weeks to experience life in Malawi and to relate to people in
their local communities. That hope became a reality when a team consisting of Lisa
Campbell, Rosemary Cooper, Lyndsey Gordon, Leanne Mark and Caroline
Patterson all former members of Kilrea Young Farmers Club, accompanied by the
Mayor, Cllr David Harding and Paul Snelling spent two weeks in Zomba. The Mayor
made an official visit to the Zomba City Council, and saw the projects that have been
funded by the Councillors and staff of Coleraine Borough Council over the past ten years,
namely the Coleraine Bridge, the Primary Health Clinic and improvements to the
community sports grounds. He handed over the cheque for the first phase of the Street
People Project. The team also visited a number of other projects supported by ZAP.
One of these projects was the building of an Orphan Care Centre, Ana ndi Athu, in the
village of Manyungwa. When they arrived the centre was almost completed and our
friends from Kilrea worked with the local people to put the finishing touches to the
building, making it an attractive learning and play area. The Centre was officially opened
the day before the team left to return to Coleraine. (see front cover)
We express our thanks to the Coleraine community and people from other parts of the
province and beyond, who continue to give generous support to the work of ZAP and to
We thank Councillors, Yvonne Boyle, Roisin Loftus and William King who are members
of the ZAP Management Board for their continued interest and support of the work of
the charity.
Coleraine Borough Council support the work of ZAP administratively and our thanks
are due to Mrs Karen Wallace and other Council employees for all the work done on
behalf of ZAP. We thank the Council for its grant for Community Development.
Lloyd’s Foundation for their generous grant. This
support has enabled ZAP to complete its eleventh
year of funding projects to help the most needy
people in the Zomba District.
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The members of the Committees and Management Boards of ZAP have given their services
voluntarily for many years and I thank them on behalf of the Coleraine community. We need
more people to bring their vision and enthusiasm to the Church, Development, Education and
Health Committees in the coming years.
The Causeway Coast and Glens Council has been elected and the Transitional Council is
already meeting to plan for the commencement of the Super Council in April 2015. ZAP hopes
to make a presentation of its work to the Transitional Council in the near future. ZAP will ask
that the Causeway Coast and Glens Council take over the link with Zomba City Council and, as
Coleraine Borough Council has done, make use of ZAP to extend the link out into the
community in the new council and in Zomba.
I would also express our thanks to the members of the Committees and the Management
Board of ZAP in Zomba for all the voluntary work they do on behalf of ZAP Coleraine. Dr
Nellie Mbano, with her husband Zondiwe are Co-ordinator and Chairman respectively and
with Mr Benjamin Khoswe, the Treasurer, continue to facilitate the implementation of the ZAP
projects. They also work with Emmanuel International who implement our development
projects, the Ana ndi Anthu Orphan Care Centre being a good example.
This is the sixth year that a group of final year education students from the University of
Ulster have gone to Chancellor College for a few weeks and been allocated to secondary
schools in Zomba. They have also raised funds for some education and community projects
through ZAP.
This year we continued to send knitted items for children, spectacles, books, tools, learning
materials and other items in containers. The contents are much appreciated and reach
individuals who may not benefit from other ZAP projects. Our thanks to all who have
contributed these items.
In Malawi the cost of living has risen sharply over the last year. There has been a good
harvest this year and most of the people living in rural Malawi, about twelve million people,
who depend on the maize they grow, should have enough food for the coming months.
I would also say sincere thanks to my colleagues on the ZAP Management Board who
correspond with ZAP Zomba, who prepare reports, organise fundraising activities, prepare
this Annual Report and go on visits to Zomba. These activities increase our knowledge and
understanding of the situation economically and socially in the Zomba area and make us more
aware of the challenges our sisters and brothers face in providing for their families.
Finally we look to the future with confidence, believing that we will be able to continue to
work for the benefit of the most needy people in the Zomba District, and we trust that ZAP will
have a place in the new Causeway Coast and Glens Council.
Terry McMullan
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SUMMARY OF ZAP ACCOUNTS
1 April 2013 – 31 March 2014
Income Summary Opening Balance £ £ Current Account 14,973.86 Investment Account 12,861.97 27,835.83 Projects and Donations Fundraising 14,945.15 Donations 19,918.58 34,863.73 Grant Funding 5,850.00 Bank Interest Current/Investment Accounts 37.32 68,586.88 Expenditure Summary £ £ Projects in Zomba area 30,554.39 Freight Charges Containers 3,518.69 34,073.08 Project Support Costs (Coleraine) 1,778.21 Project Support costs (Zomba) 2,900.00 4,678.21 Closing Balances 31 March 2014 Current Account 16,960.76 Investment Account 12,874.83 29,835.59 68,586.88
Notes: 1. Investment A/c No 2 with Danske Bank £10,000 for one year; £5,000 +
Interest to be brought into income in each of the following years: Years ending 31
March 2015 and 31 March 2016
2. Project support costs ZAP(C) £1,778.21 main items being Insurance and printing
costs and ZAP(Z) project costs of £2,900 main items being allowance for part time
Administrator, Rent and Rates, travel costs and Honorarium for Management
Board members
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INCOME DONATIONS AND FUNDRAISING
Year Ended 31 March 2014
PROJECTS/EVENTS ZAP Gifts 6,185.00 Glenullin Walk & BBQ 2,900.00 Sales to March for ZAP Cook Book 2,637.50 Fireside Quiz 180.00 Coffee Morning at the Adams home 1,251.80 Thanksgiving Service 10th Anniversary 1,570.85 Poetry Reading Event Cllr Y Boyle 220.00 14,945.15 REGULAR DONATIONS CBC Councillors and Staff 1,755.23 Other regular donations 720.00 DONATIONS BY GROUPS/ ORGANISATIONS over £100 Freda Algie Memorial Fund 5,089.75 Ballywillan Presbyterian Church 1,000.00 St Columba’s Primary School 1,000.00 Hazelbank Presbyterian Church 800.00 Hazlett Primary School 420.00 Kilrea Young Farmers Club 420.00 1st Castlederg Presbyterian Church Sunday School 300.00 Coleraine Lions Club 250.00 Kilrea Primary School 200.00 Coleraine Academical Institution 188.00 New Row Presbyterian Church 156.00 Coleraine Borough Council Social Committee 113.00 Inner Wheel Bally money 100.00 Inner Wheel Newry 100.00 Rosemary Presbyterian Church Luncheon Club 100.00 INDIVIDUALS OVER £400 Anonymous for Education 1,000.00 Anonymous for Education 1,000.00 Gordon Family 1,200.00 Mrs R Nixon 500.00 Campbell & Clarke Memorial Funds 838.65 Stockman Scholarship 1,000.00 OTHER DONATIONS 1,667.95 19,918.58 Interest 37.32 37.32 GRANT FUNDING Lloyds TSB Charitable Foundation 5,000.00 CBC Community Development Grant 850.00 5,850.00 TOTAL 40,751.05 Note: ZAP apologises that it did not list separately the gift of £320 from 1st Castlederg Sunday
School in the 2012/13 report
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ZAP PROJECTS 2013-14 – Zomba says ‘Thank You’
Ana ndi Athu Orphan Care Centre, with a shallow well, water pump and garden development 11,300.00 Seed Project – Training, support for communities (seeds donated by Thompson & Morgan and sent in container) 982.00 Water connection for Disabled family 100.00 Namingazi Primary School - 100 chairs 862.00 Pirimiti Primary School - 200 desks 1,436.00 Zomba Urban Primary School - Roofing materials 1,114.00 Hazelbank Presbyterian Church - Student Scholarships 800.00 Campbell Student Scholarships 300.00 Merit Bursaries for Secondary School Students (1st year) 820.00 Destiny Ministries Adult Literacy Programme 219.00 CCAP Adult Literacy Programme 380.00 Sponsored Student Scholarship 1,200.00 School Packs for pupils 166.00 Teacher’s Packs 220.00 Namikata Primary School Barn Conversion (2nd payment) 555.00 Sponsored Student Support 240.00 Stockman Student Scholarship 250.00 Malawi Nat Assoc for the Deaf Start Up Materials 390.00 Zomba City Council - Street People Project (1st phase) 2,140.00 SAFE Training of carers, guardians and parents of children 0-8 years in five communities - Freda Algie Trust 7,930.00 Umodzi Women’s Group – Mushroom Project 430.00 Prof Bill Clarke Memorial Fund (1st and 2nd year Scholarship) 1,045.00 Bibles for Secondary School (Father Henry) 650.00 Children’s Cancer Treatment 500.00 Beit Trust CURE Hospital – Children’s Orthopaedic Operations 520.00 Sundry – Learning materials, Hats for Albinos etc 180.39 Total 34, 729.39 Boxes of children’s and baby clothes, sewing machines, carpentry tools, educational materials etc were sent in two part container loads 3,518.69
Total Projects expenditure £ 38,248.08
Note: £4,175.00, from reallocated funding was carried forward from the year ended
31.3.13 and explains the difference between the total amount of £38,248.08 and the
amount of £34,073.08 appearing on the audited accounts for year ending 31.03 14.
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ANA NDI ATHU Orphan Care Project was the largest project this financial year and also provided the opportunity for five volunteers to go and contribute practically and creatively to its completion. The volunteers said on return: 'Our fortnight working at Ana ndi Athu has helped us appreciate what a difference this orphan support centre will make to the children in the villages. The children were previously in a building that was in very bad repair; now they will receive nursery education in an attractive, (but basic) building; and they will receive a nutritious midday meal, prepared in the new kitchen. A new well and pump will provide clean water. So facilities for education, clean water and good food; that is how we have helped transform children's lives at Ana ndi Athu.' We thank all who supported this very worthwhile project
Previous
toilet
New toilets
Children at
original Centre
At Opening
ceremony
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Extracts from a report made to the Management Board by
Paul Snelling, Secretary, after his visit to Zomba in April 14.
Overview: the visit was very positive in respect of the two new areas that
we focused on. These were:
(1) introducing the Mayor, Cllr David Harding, to Zomba City Council and ZAP’s activities;
(2) providing the five women with an interesting and informative experience of life in and around Zomba, an overview of what ZAP can do to help address the needs of people there and the opportunity to assist in the completion of the Ana Ndi Athu project. (see other references in Report.)
It was also helpful to have discussions about the Management of ZAP with
Nellie, Zondiwe and Benjamin and to attend the ZAP Zomba workshop.
Visits focused on what can be done to improve life in rural areas. We
thus saw goats, more goats, wells, bicycle ambulances, maize gardens,
tailoring and other projects.
Of particular interest was the cassava project (302/12) and the
irrigation project (319/13) both at Kimu Village. Both projects are
deemed to have been great successes; the cassava project has already
proved its worth by providing food despite the poor rains last year and the
irrigation project has provided two crops of maize in the first year, the
second crop capable of being sold at good prices when maize was in short
supply. The villagers have already extended both projects themselves,
having seen the positive outcomes of the initial projects.
Family who
received a goat
Foot pump
Irrigation
Project
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Extracts Continued:
Emmanuel International introduced us for the first time to a women’s
group at Kachero. The group fulfils the desirable foundation of already being
proactive in developing their community so it will be helpful to have visited
the village, if they submit a project to ZAP.
We visited Malawi National Association for the Deaf (MANAD)
Community Based Organisation (CBO), It was both touching and inspiring,
as there were women at work sewing and men doing carpentry, both with
equipment sent out by ZAP and supplied by‘ Tools for Solidarity’.
At the School of Health Sciences, we saw the computers in use which were
bought by ZAP from CAMARA (who recycle computers) and then were
transported to Zomba in the container.
There was confirmation that a range of books were welcomed by schools that
had literally none but preferably educational books especially text books.
David Harding, Estella (ZAP’s Administrator) and I visited the Coleraine
Bridge; the Mother and Baby Clinic (now changed in focus to a Primary
Health Clinic, albeit including a mother and baby clinic) where Norriah
Affonso, who came to Coleraine under a Commonwealth Scholarship in 2008,
is still working; and the Community Sports Ground where the sports outfits
sent in past years are well used and more would be welcomed.
David handed over the ZAP cheque for the first phase of the Street People
Project to the Zomba City Council Chief Executive, Mr Ali Phiri. This was
prepared by Busta Chiona, who also was in Coleraine under a Commonwealth
Scholarship.
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We also visited the Bwalo Initiative project, which is taking homeless
boys off the streets of Zomba and training them in a trade. Their efforts
to date and the sight of the boys were touching; they have extremely basic
facilities for 10 to 15 boys but hope to move to find better facilities soon.
The community centre at Kondanani,
is one of a number of Sub Sahara Family
Enrichment (SAFE) supported centres.
SAFE encourages early childhood
development, works with orphans and
vulnerable children and assists
grandmothers; the community will
benefit from the recent project
(354/14) funded by the Freda Algie
Memorial Fund
ZAP has been funding a number of
Adult Literacy classes and it was
good to visit communities and see
the classes in action. This is an
ongoing need as many adults never
had the chance of attending school.
Despite free primary school
provision there are many challenges
particularly for girls to attend
regularly and have the opportunity
of secondary education.
Boys cooking their food
Better than on the streets
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Support Zomba Action Project (ZAP)
Make a donation large or small – One off or regular
Go to Fundraising Events or organise one
Through ZAP Gifts – identifying how your gift is used
Serve on a Committee and/or assist with promotion
activities – web site and general communication
Sponsor scholarships or particular project support
Volunteer to visit Zomba on a team
Provide items for containers – e.g. educational materials,
tools, children’s cardigans for 4-5 year olds
Sell ZAP Recipe books
For more information contact: Zomba Action Project (ZAP) – Karen Wallace c/o Coleraine
Borough Council Cloonavin 66 Portstewart Road COLERAINE BT52 1EY Tel 028 70347034
E-mail: [email protected] Web site: http://www.colerainezomba.org.uk
Facebook Zomba Action Project Charity reference No XR 64146
Donations can be made through http://www.btplc.com/mydonate Enter ZAP as your
nominated charity and e-mail Karen Wallace to let her know of your donation.
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