Projects over the years
The original aim of the Malawi Millennium Project (MMP) was to assist in educating the personnel necessary to train future generations of teachers, healthcare practitioners, scientists, technicians, and engineers in Malawi to deal with their education, health, and engineering problems.
However, as individual departments in the University started applying for grants to conduct their own departmental academic research, the MMP took on a more humanitarian role.
The path to achieving this has led us to become involved in a variety of projects that have been of benefit to a wide range of people in Malawi.
The beneficiaries are not geographically or socially limited, the locations of the projects span the entire country. The people who benefit range from profoundly impoverished villagers, to financially challenged students, to academic staff working with severely limited resources.
Some early projects, completed in the first few years of the millennium, include the maintenance work on the Gorodi Road and the construction of the David Livingstone Clinic. Other projects, such as 'Making Wonders', continued until the funding received from the Scottish Government ended in 2017. However, this was not before it had expanded into thirty-two schools.
Over time, priorities set by our partners in Malawi reflect the changes in the projects in which we were involved. We began to support albinism and leprosy missions, and we supplied books and computers to schools and colleges. We also helped finance the distribution of ophthalmoscopes to rural areas and many other worthy causes.