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!