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Summer Report 2015
including February-
OHP CENTRE
LIVESTOCK
Dairy Goats
Room for improvement! Milk quantities available for babies are currently very low, we’re backing up with cows milk and formula for infants with no other milk resource. We need female goat kids to be born and grow up into prolific milkers to keep the herd viable, but some does are not coming into season, and others aren’t becoming pregnant. No seasons—no mating —no kids—no milk. With breeding so erratic and unreliable, we don’t have the luxury of spacing pregnancies to provide continuous milk flow. But in recent weeks, more does have been mated, and 3 female kids have been born.
Not as many kits as we’d hoped, but the “Rabbinga” Project is still progressing—a combination of rabbit breeding in the community for meat/income generation alongside moringa trees providing vegetable-
we invited community farmers to have their chickens vaccinated against Newcastles disease. Sometimes chickens are their only asset!
Rabbits
Chickens
AGRICULTURE
Agriculture on our main site in Chiringa
The leaves are processed into a nutritious powdered food supplement
(see below)
Programme, and compost made.
eggplants, tomatoes, and carrots.
Makhonja—our second site
Training in conservation farming continues
Dickson, the Malawian trainer of the international programme “Farming God’s Way” comes to site several times a year to teach and encourage local subsistence farmers.
Processing Unit
We’ve nearly finished the interior of the Processing Unit—thank you I & J!
The kitchen and field office were ready earlier, and now the back section (moringa processing) has been floored, plastered, and electrics fitted. Plumbing will be sorted next trip, along with developing our plans for harvesting “grey” water from the processes for irrigation and cleaning.
We also managed to research and resolve some of the challenges…
We built a dehydrator from plans found on the internet, to dry our moringa
leaves. It’s an odd shaped solar unit, with a perspex-
lined with black metal mesh which conducts heat from the sun up into the
drying compartment lined with moringa-
initial trials look promising.
Our new milling machine is fantastic—it not only grinds dried moringa leaves to a fine powder to be given as a food supplement, but also mills maize, soya, groundnuts, dried fish—all the ingredients we use in our fortified porridge for vulnerable toddlers, so we can now prepare it on site.
Moringa powder, issued as a food supplement. Leaves contain Vits A & C, protein, calcium, potassium and iron
Transport
Our old Honda car has been a really reliable vehicle despite it’s great age, but now is deteriorating fast. It broke down on an airport run (the RH front suspension collapsed), and again later locally when LH side went, so 2 of our watchmen were sent overnight to guard it. It’s overheating, and of course there’s no AA or Green Flag for rescue out in the bush! It urgently needs replacing……..
BUV (basic utility vehicle) has been repaired and is
running well
Our new Kavaki motor-
has now been run-
the building of the Nalamamba bridge.
Driving Licences—we already have 3 staff members
with full motorbike driving licences and have started the
process for another 5 more. We have just one staff
member with a car driving licence, so need to put
another through a training programme.
Our new motor-
Staff
All 17 staff members are working well -
A Maize Loan was issued to each staff member at their request—enough for 12 x 50kg bags of maize—subsidised by OHP thus reducing the monthly repayments
Home improvement loans were also granted—the properties of all our staff were damaged in the storms, so many have asked for loans for cement to reinforce or rebuild. Additionally, we’ve replaced all their broken-
Our friends, Les & Kathie, who live in Malawi, are still doing a great job for OHP as overseers, checking accounts and progress monthly.
We were able to give out lots of donated goodies —knitted blankets & jumpers, clothing, reading glasses, vegetable seeds, we even brought a football kit from the UK, much to the delight of our local football team!
Lesta thrilled with her chair -
Esther’s old chair!
Open Hands ….
We were privileged to supply 2 wheelchairs, donated by Blantyre Rotary, applied for by Les & Kathie. Both went to local ladies, Esther and Lesta, both with severe degrees a paralysis -
Next …..
Processing Unit—complete the moringa section: kitchen unit built, sink plumbed in—grey water collection—water, waste and toilet connected—cess pit & soakaway dug and tanked—walls painted, windows glazed,equipment & processes finalised, more dehydrators built, plus alternatives if necessary for the rainy season.
House kitchen—unit finished with sink unit
Reforestation Programme advanced–tubed seedlings given out for planting with rains, more seeds sown, compost made, locations identified for wooded areas, more clay stoves promoted
Thanks …..
Special thanks -
Thanks too to Chris L, who came over to present the Living Hope Bible Conference for local pastors, but also worked so hard practically with us on site.
So many others have contributed so faithfully and generously—thank you all for your help!
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A "Carbon Footprint" |
HIV/AIDS-2011 |
FAQS |
Food Programme |
Elderlies Luncheons |
Phala Project |
Agriculture |
Moringa |
Reforestation |
Training |
Milk |
Goats |
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Education Sponsorship |
Helps Projects |
Community Buildings |
Christmas |
Moringa-history |
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Milk history |
Goat history |
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Mtikhe CC |
Msikita Community Centre |
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Monjo School tank |
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Testimony - Lynda |
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Community-hunger-2017 |
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Community-Food-2016a |
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Community water-2016a |
OHP Site-2016a |
Community hunger-2016b |
Community water-2016b |
Community education - 2016b |
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disaster-2015a |
Community-2015a |
OHPsite-2015a |
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Community nutrition-2015b |
Reforestation-2015b |
Community-families-2015b |
OHP site-2015b |
Hunger-2014a |
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Livestock-2014a |
OHP site-2014a |
Next-2014a |
News-July 2014 |
Hunger2014b |
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OHP site-2014b |
News-Jan 2015 |
Community projects-2013a |
OHP Centre-2013a |
Giving-2013a |
News-Sept 2013 |
Community activities-2013b |
Food Programmes-2013b |
Our sites-2013b |
News Jan 2014 |
Jesus film |
Hunger/agri-2012a |
Hunger/nutrition-2012b |
Goats-milk-2012A |
OHP site-2012a |
Community help-2012a |
Next steps-2012a |
Community projects-2012b |
OHP site development-2012b |
future plans-2012b |
Flooding-Jan 2013 |
Latest news-Feb 2013 |
Hunger-2011 |
Milk-2011 |
Site development-2011 |
Giving-2011 |
Food- 2010a |
Local-2010b |
On site news - 2010 |
Finally - 2010 |
Agriculture- 2010b |
Changing lives-2010b |
Local life-2009a |
Life in Malawi-2009b |
Agriculture-2009a |
Goats & Milk-2009a |
Chiringa site-2009a |
And finally ...2009a |
Pastors' Conf - 2009 |
Farming-2009b |
Water-2009b |
Site Development-2009b |
A helping hand-2009b |
Agriculture-2008a |
Hunger-2008b |
Milk & Play Centres-2008a |
Helping Hand -2008a |
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Chickens & water-2008b |
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