Watson's Malawi Partnership is now a register ed charity with Amazon Smile. Which means you can nominate us for a small donation every time you shop with Amazon.   And the good news is, you only need to nominate Watson's Malawi Partnership once. If you are interested in participating, all you need to do is sign up at to Amazon Smile through their website. If you use their mobile app to shop, you will need to switch that on too through the app's menu section.  It's fairly straightforward but if you get stuck, here is a link to the instructions:  Amazon.co.uk: AmazonSmile Mobile App Instructions .  Thanks for thinking about this - every little counts!

  And in the blink of eye, it's all over! But for the 44 students - and nine members of staff who accompanied them - this trip marks the  start of a whole new love affair with Malawi and our partners there.

Earlier this month, Sally Rae joined the board of the Scotland Malawi Partnership, an organisation that aims to build connection and collaboration between these two long-affiliated nations.   Sally was recruited for her experience of working with young people sharing an interest in Malawi. She has organised every school trip since she conceived the idea, back in 2012, with Richard Travers. Since then, the Malawi school trip has doubled in size and become an annual fixture in the Watson's calendar.  If you'd like to know more about the work of the Scotland Malawi Partnership, click here: Our board | Scotland Malawi Partnership (scotland-malawipartnership.org)  

   On the last day of the October trip, we visited Charity Salima's award-winning clinic that has achieved so much for so many families in Area 23 of Lilongwe: dramatically reducing neonatal deaths and spearheading radical new family planning initiatives.    In the last year alone, Achikondi clinic has admitted 53 women for delivery, successfully delivering 51 babies while referring the other two women to hospital for specialist treatment. They have conducted 1774 ultra-sounds and supported 254 antenatal women.  In addition, the clinic has provided emergency medical support for 1678 people and more than 7000 families with family planning guidance and prophylactics, challenging local taboos head-on. But that's still not enough for Charity. As well as treating us to some memorable entertainment, see link below, Charity took time out of her hectic schedule to tell us about her ambitions for the clinic: "I would like to thank George Watson College through you, Sally...

It's been a long time coming, but we're now just weeks away from returning to Malawi.  This week, we gathered three years of donations, stored carefully around the school and beyond, and packed them into 43 suitcases to take with us to October. 

This month, we held our first home-grown plant sale and so far, we've raised £435.

  Welcome to our new, very own Just Giving charity page:  Watson's Malawi Partnership - JustGiving This is already making it soooooo much easier for us all to raise money for our partners in Malawi!

  This week, we raised over £700 for our partners in Malawi with our first ever Bring & Buy Sale of second-hand outdoor kit. 

  This week marks the start of the Belinda Weller tournament on the brand new, hard-surface netball court funded by Netball for All.

The  Upcycling Club  was busy this Christmas selling items rescued and carefully restored throughout the Autumn term in the DTE workshop. These students, from S6 through to S1, managed to raise over £500. This takes the total donated to Watson's Malawi Partnership this year to a staggering £1600. On behalf of all our partners, thank you!

  We are all so grateful for your ongoing support of our work and for cheering us on through these challenging times. Your sponsorship is enabling us to offer children like Peter the very best care and is truly helping to build a much brighter future. From all of us here - thank you!

  What a start to the new year. After many months of hard work from the team on the ground and here in the UK, the new netball court is officially open and ready to go. And what a tribute it is to Belinda, the inspiration behind it all.