Kasupe Ministries, Inc.
P.O. Box 31453, Lilongwe 3, Malawi. kasupe@globemw.net 0999280050
Quarterly Updates: April-June 2009
Kasupe Ministries Secondary School
Construction work of Kasupe Ministries Secondary School (KMSS) has continued and two buildings which were under construction have been completed. The buildings are a two-classroom block and a duplex. The duplex has two teachers’ houses and the teachers have already occupied the houses. The houses have separate kitchens, bathrooms and latrines. More buildings will be added this year depending on the funds that the ministry will manage to have. We hope that we will add another duplex, two classrooms, a library, laboratory, and pit latrines by the end of the year. At the moment, the school has about 90 students. The Form Two class will write its first exams this year. Kasupe has also just hired a new female teacher, Mercy Banda, to beef up the staff at the secondary school. This brings the total number of teachers for Kasupe Ministries Secondary School to four. Margie Berlin of Ashland Presbyterian church (Maryland, US) is also coming to do some ‘coaching’ to the teachers. She will be in Malawi early next month till October.
Teachers’ Houses, July 23, 2008
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PEACE KINDERGARTEN
The kids’ school has about 100 children. Kasupe Kindergarten (also known as PEACE) has continued to help kids with education, food, clothes, spiritual programmes, and medical support. In the picture, two teachers, Ruth and Dorothy, pose with some of the kindergarten kids.
HIV/AIDS SUPPORT GROUP
The HIV/Aids pandemic continues to wreck havoc in Malawi just like in several countries in central Africa. KM is trying to change this trend. We reach to people with HIV/Aids messages in our area through a group of HIV/Aids positive people that Kasupe came up with. Kasupe Ministries’ HIV/Aids support group has grown to more than 50 people. The group is comprised of men and women (single and married) who have come out in the open to declare that they are HIV positive. Talking about HIV/Aids in the villages of Kasupe is no longer a taboo and we have seen a lot of results. Our aim is to help those who are suffering with the virus live longer and spread the message on the dangers of HIV/Aids to all (including the orphans).
“We are Positive and still going strong,” the Support Group Choir Testified in front of everybody
Dancing while giving out Anti HIV/AIDS
Messages
Food situation among orphans and households under the care of Kasupe
There will be no food shortage this year. Food production in Kasupe area has improved tremendously and there will be no food shortage for the first time in 15 years. The food increment in the Kasupe area has been greatly attributed to the Food for Work project that we carried out with the help of Osprey Foundation, Ashland Presbyterian Church, and other friends and partners. The extended Food for Work project was completed with the final food distribution done on March 31, 2009. The project was carried out from July 2008 to March 2009. Kasupe Ministries helped about 200 households that had been affected by the food shortage. We are delighted and pleased that the ministry, through your support, managed to save more lives with food. People were able to work in their gardens due to the food that was readily available for them. The recipients utilized the time to work on producing more food instead of looking for expensive food elsewhere.
The following activities will be done in 2009/10 to sustain the food production that has been made this year:
i. Extending seed and food bank storage building that was built by Kasupe in 2007; this will enable the ministry to continue its overall Food Security programs
ii. Procuring long-irrigation pipes and strong treadle pumps to improve irrigation in large fields
iii. Assisting farmers grow fruit trees for future household consumption and economic independence
iv. Helping beneficiaries build dams for water harvest program that will be used for irrigation; this program was started in 2006 and several dams have been constructed
v. Starting fish farming using the irrigation dams
vi. Assisting farmers grow drought-resistant crops such as cassava (yams)
vii. Helping farmers diversify food production by growing crops such as rice, sunflower, peas, and groundnuts
viii. Work out the logistics on having a Food Cooperative for farmers around Kasupe area
Other Programs Happening at Kasupe as of June 2009
Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV/Aids project, once every two weeks
Paying of school fees to more than 100 secondary school students
Paying of college fees for five orphans; the students are studying at Salima technical college
Extending the area of operation of the ministry due to the appeal that has been made by some villages, the number of orphans under the care of Kasupe Ministries may increase to about 1200
Preparations for food security program
Coming up…..
Children’s Bible Camps in August, October, and December 2009
HIV/Aids Open Day, August 29, 2009
Official Opening of Kasupe Ministries Secondary School
Celebrating five years since Kasupe was registered as an NGO by the Malawi
Kasupe annual general meeting (AGM), new board members for Kasupe Malawi to be elected
PRAISE/PRAYER ITEMS
Praise Items
o Sponsorship Support for secondary school students
o Secondary School Construction financial support
o Financial donations for different activities
o Donations of clothes and blankets
o Spiritual activities
o Volunteers’ work (from the villages and African Bible College)
o Activities of HIV/AIDS support group
o Food Project support
o Support from the community
o Borehole donation
Prayer Items
o Funds for general operations of the ministry
o Continued support for college orphans
o Smooth running of the secondary school construction
o Financial support for construction
o Sponsorship for new secondary school students
o Continued support for PEACE Kindergarten
o Good health for children
o Financial support for Christmas Bible camp in December 2009
o HIV/Aids Support Group activities
o People who may be considering visiting Kasupe in the summer of 2010 and beyond
o Margie Berlin’s trip to Kasupe in August 2009
You are invited to visit Kasupe Ministries in Malawi
Kasupe Ministries would like to extend an invitation to all friends from all over the world who may be interested to visit Kasupe villages next summer for long or short term mission work. You do not need any prior skills to come and assist. There are so many opportunities for you to serve such as teaching at Kasupe Secondary school or the Kindergarten, assisting in feeding children, leading Bible studies, teaching or preaching in local churches, helping in construction work of Kasupe Ministries Secondary School, working with the HIV/Aids support group, as well as organizing sporting activities with kids (both young and older kids). You can also initiate your own project that can benefit the people in the villages. While in Malawi, Kasupe Ministries will be responsible for your village accommodation, food, transport as well as recreation.
Visiting Malawi will also give you a chance to go to the Lake Malawi for a “swim of your life” as well as visit the parks where you could see different animals such as elephants, hippos, crocodiles, buffaloes, antelopes, waterbucks and many more.
Some of the visitors who came Kasupe in 2008….
In the above picture, you can see some of the girls from California who came to Kasupe in 2008.
Belgium visitors with Kasupe workers, 2008 (left); Guust, Jeroen and two others from Belgium braced the sun to help feed the children during their visit (right)
Others were saved and were baptized according to what Jesus commanded, we were there to witness this good news-in the picture, a girl from California is baptized by Pastor Godfrey Kadzuwa in a dam closer to Kasupe Ministries’ center (left); Some visited the poor and helped them in many ways (right)
For more information, write Fletcher Padoko at kasupe@globemw.net
Or Kasupe Ministries, Inc., P.O. Box 31453, Lilongwe 3, Malawi.
Report compiled by:
Fletcher Padoko,
Executive Director
Kasupe Ministries
