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World Vision is a partnership of international Christians whose mission is to follow our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in working with the poor and the oppressed to promote human transformation, seek justice and bear witness to the good news of the kingdom of God.In Malawi, World Vision has 37 long-term Development Programs in 26 of the countrys 28 districts.

Among several interventions, World Vision is responsive to life-threatening emergencies and always strives for an immediate response. This is why World Vision was the first to hit the ground when 15 districts in Malawi were declared disaster areas by the State President in January this year.

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World Vision approach to business in humanitarian work

Malawi Vice President, Rt Hon Saulos Claus Chilima at Bangula refugee camp, flanked on the left by Robert Kisyula, WV Malawi ND and Evelyn Itimu, WV Malawi Board Chair

A woman walking away with fod items at Matope Primary School in Neno

Restoring hope where there was none

World Vision is a signatory to the Red Cross Code of Conduct and is committed to implementing emergency programs in line with the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response. Furthermore, World Vision is a member of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) and, keeping in line with the HAP principles, WV is working to be more accountable to communities in our emergency responses. This is done in our distributions through the Complaints Response Mechanism where beneficiaries are able to provide feedback and know their entitlements.

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wOrld visiOn MObilises the church tO respOnd tO flOOd disAster

Blankets to keep them warm, family kits to re-launch their lives

ensuring that women and children enjoy good health: wv conducts medical check-ups in the camps

Malawi churches Overwhelming response to floods

world visions interventions in the education sectorEnsuring that children are educated for life: World Vision partners with UNICEF to provide education in emergencies

Marietta Bernado arrived at Magoti refugee camp in Bangula three days after hanging onto a tree branch for three days as the stifling floods hit her community mercilessly. When the water subsided she was rescued by a marine boat that was moving around the place, searching for lucky survivors.

I was waving in the tree and when they saw me they came to my rescue. My whole village was covered by water, she said. Lucky for her, the day that she arrived at Magoti was the same day World Vision Malawi launched its official response to the floods. The organisation donated 1000 bags of flour to camps in Chikwawa and Nsanje. World Vision was the first organization to respond.While thanking World Vision and other organisations for all the assistance Malawi has received, the Vice President Saulos Chilima who graced the distribution exercise, appealed for humanitarian assistance

Shamil, aged 12, is happy to be back to school after a long spell-out. She is happy that her dream of becoming a nurse is right on track and she is working hard.

World Vision Malawi in partnership with UNICEF has mounted school tents, mobilised teachers and teaching resources to enable children in the camps attend classes. World Vision is further constructing a total of 400 Eco Sun toilets in these schools.

Nearly 300 thousand children have been affected following the destruction of over 350 school blocks across Malawi. Through their partnership, World Vision and UNICEF have provided learning shelters for children in Mulanje, Chikwawa as well as Nsanje districts.

When the floods hit, 30 year-old Modester Mmadi from Mpama community in Chiradzulu lost everything including clothes, food, livestock and kitchen utensils just every basic need that a family would need to run.

At a time when almost all her friend s and relatives had experienced a similar feat, Modester had nowhere to go for help. She had to face it all alone with her three children and her two late brothers children.

M o d e s t e r appreciates World Visions with Non Food Items (NFIs) in her community as she has benefitted a lot from them.

World vision distributed pots, clothes, shoes, blankets and treated mosquito nets. While thanking World Vision and other organisations making donations, she urged her fellow flood victims to ensure proper usage of all items they have received so that children benefit from them.

The church in Malawi has appealed to Malawians to unite and work together to support several families that have been displaced by floods in the Lower Shire and other parts of the country.

Speaking in Lilongwe, on behalf of the Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM), Reverend Francis Mkandawire called on church leaders and their members to get involved in various relief efforts being put in place to assist the affected.

With the assistance of WV Malawi, the churches have further joined hands with mobile service providers Telekom Networks Malawi (TNM) and AIRTEL Malawi have come up with a special number, 50121 to which Malawians are sending a text message. Each text message allows the users to contribute K100.00 (US$0, 22). The money will be used to buy food and non-food items. World Vision Malawi is providing technical and logistical support to make sure that everything that

World Vision Malawi appreciates the overwhelming response from the church in Malawi in supporting flood victims. After the call for the church to respond, World Vision has continued to receive a lot of food and non-food items like clothes and shoes from various churches in Malawi. The Church of Central African Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod and the Calvary Family Church are some of the churches from whom World Vision has received relief items for distribution in the camps.

World Vision Malawi recently mobilized a team of medical doctors from the Society of medical Doctors who visited flood victims and conducted medical check-ups and provided treatment in camps in Nsanje and Chikhwawa districts.

Looming hunger- Maize gardens have been washed away

Church leaders captured attending the commitment event in Blantyre

A doctor conducting a medical check up on a child at a camp in Nsanje

WV Switzerland CEO interacting with learers at Chingoli Primary School in one of

the tents provided by UNICEF

from the International donor community, United Nations agencies, the Non-Governmental Organisations, the local private sector as well

as all Malawians of goodwill in an effort to contribute to alleviating the suffering of the affected people.The floods damaged a lot of

hectares of crops, washed away livestock and damaged infrastructure such as roads, bridges school blocks and even water sources.

Speaking from Marka Flood victims camp in the eastern part of Nsanje, Mary , mother of nine year-old Leonard who was on a quinine drip said had it been not for the doctors who visited them, the life of her son would have been in danger.

I am happy that this is being done in all camps where some of our friends are staying, she said, Otherwise I didnt know my son was so critically ill.

World Vision provided the medical supplies and logistical support to the exercise. The Doctors

provided their services for free. World Vision has also provided water treatment chemicals and other medical supplies to the Ministry of Health and other organisations working in the health sector to support the affected people.

the church will collect reaches the affected people.

In a related development, World Vision recently partnered

with Impact for Christ Ministries (ICM) from South Africa with whom they have distributed

blankets, food and clothes to people affected by floods in Mulanje and Chikwawa districts.

DONATIONS FOR THE FLOOD VICTIMS THROUGH WORLD VISION MALAWI

NICO 152,045.45 66,900,000.00 MSB 11,338.00 5,000,000.00 WV Malawi 400,000.00 180,000,000.00 UNICEF 167,269.00 73,765,753.00 WVUK 50,000.00 22,003,970.00 WV New Zealand 20,000.00 8,801,588.00 WV Taiwan 25,000.00 11,001,985.00Class of Board Members at MIM 261.90 110,000.00

WV Australia 30,000.00 13,202,382.00 WV South Korea 50,000.00 22,003,970.00 WV Canada 75,000.00 33,005,955.00 Petroleum Importers Ltd 22,676.00 10,000,000.00 Bill Gates Foundation 550,000.00 242,043,670.00 Miss Alexandra 462.00 203,280.47Malawians in Ethopia 4,000.00 1,760,317.60

Malawians in Kenya 11,247.00 4,949,573.01 Yoharin Mutori 500.00 200,000.00 NBS Bank 22,676.00 9,979,240.47 BEAM 6,190.48 2,600,000.00 Candlex Ltd 8,750.00 3,500,000.00 PTC 15,000.00 6,000,000.00 Flood Church 5,000.00 2,000,000.00

Chikuluti CCAP 19,000.00 7,600,000.00 Assemblies Of God NRC 670.00 268,000.00 Jambo Women Area 18 957.50 383,000.00 Calvary Family Church 8,095.24 3,400,000.00 Maneno Bookshop 61,904.76 26,000,000.00 Nkhoma CCAP Synod 38,095.24 16,000,000.00

TOTAL IN CASH RECEIVED AND GIFTS

IN KIND

K772,682,684.56

USD MK USD MK USD MK USD MK

private sector Joins world vision to support floods response

world vision remains thankful to the Malawi private sector

The future still calls for your help

The private sector in Malawi has come in full support to assist government and aid agencies to respond to the recent floods that hit the Southern Region of Malawi. By 28 January, several Malawian companies had entrusted World Vision (WV) Malawi with US$146,000 in kind as well as cash to assist those affected. The partnership with the private sector has broken new ground in the

history of emergency response in World Vision Southern Africa Region.

These include Grey Matter, The New Building Society (NBS), Malawi Savings Bank (MSB), Rotary Club and National Insurance Company (NICO), Candlex, PTC, Zodiak Broadcasting Corporation, Airtel and Telekom Networks Malawi.

Speaking on the partnership with the Private

Sector, Weston Kasinje, (World Vision Malawi Southern Zona Manager) said It is amazing to work very closely with government and the private sector as one of the countrys Humanitarian organisation responding to the needs of flood victims. He also committed that WV Malawi will remain transparent and accountable to the government, donors, partners and the people on the ground.

Knowing that when disasters strike, children are possibly malnourished and at risk of death from preventable or curable diseases, World Vision has partnered with World Food Programme (WFP) in providing food stuffs to the affected people. Each registered household receives a 50 kilogram bag of maize, 10 Kgs of beans and five kgs of Corn Soy.

At a time when hundreds of thousands of people were made homeless and trapped in different places across the country, there were some heroes who rose above humanity to reach out to their fellows; those who responded to the flood right in the community before the media and all of us were aware something was going wrong. We congratulate those people.

But over and above, several organisations, companies, Churches and individuals heard our call and contributed, and continue doing so, in an effort to save our brothers and sisters who have faced this calamity.

When floods hit Malawi, causing devastating damage in the southern Region, World Vision moved in quickly to stand with the children and people hit by the floods. With gardens and livestock lost, poverty has been

Further resource mobilisation efforts: Partnership with World Food Programme

exacerbated. But worse than that, lives were lost.

Amidst this calamity, World Vision continues working to help children and their communities become more resilient in contexts

of disasters through solid early warning systems and other mitigation measures such as community-level interfaith work and the creation and strengthening of Civil Protection Committees.

World Vision also continues to prepare and implement humanitarian response relevant to the needs of these children and their communities, and rehabilitation and post disaster programmes that are sustainable and built on local capacities.

For more information, please contact World Vision Malawi:World Vision Malawi, P. O Box 692, Lilongwe or Email: Grace_Nachiola@wvi.org; The Response Manager, dingiswayo_jere@wvi.org

World Vision Malawi Deputy National Director Fordson Kafweku (centre) and WFP Country Director Coco Ushiama

(right), distributing food at Nsenjere FDP in Chikwawa

World Vision partnered with Blantyre City Assembly in mobilising people to respond to the flood