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The Seed Sowers Trust (formerly known as Malawi Mission)
was born out of a calling on two members of the Full Gospel
Business Men's Fellowship International (Newton Abbot Chapter)
to visit Malawi in 1994, in response to a letter received
from a rural village pastor requesting help. What those
members saw was the real poverty of the villages and their
need for the basic requirements of life. The one essential
need in these villages, at that time, was the requirement
of clean fresh water. Many of the villages were suffering
from Cholera and other waterborne diseases.
In 1995 an Airlift of ten people from the
UK flew out to Malawi to initiate a borehole project. The
first borehole was completed in September 1995 in the village
of Mitabali in Mikolongwe District Southern Malawi; the
first Afridev pump being supplied by the charity Actionaid.
Also in September that year, after the State President heard
of our activities, Malawi Freshwater Project was born and
granted NGO status in Malawi by the State President, Bakali
Muluzi, personally. The British Department for International
Development, formally the ODA helped to ‘kick-start’
the project in 1995 by financing the supply of 15 Afridev
pump units. This organisation is now totally run by indigenous
Malawians and has to date sunk over 200 boreholes.
Since 1997 the charity has been addressing other desparate
needs of the poor in Malawi. We are currently engaged in building and establishing
a number of Mother and Baby Clinics, Orphan Support and Famine Relief.
In 2000 Malawi Mission became a Registered Charity in the UK
and at that time changed its name to Seed Sowers Trust. In 2002 Seed Sowers Trust
was granted Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) status in Malawi with resident
Malawi trustees.
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