Annemarie Foundation - Introduction, Programs in Malawi

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for Me.” __ Jesus Christ, through Mathew 25:40

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Registration No: TR/INC 6912

Emergency Food Relief And

Other Projects in Malawi

Table of Contents

Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2 The Founder ............................................................................................................................... 2 The Foundation .......................................................................................................................... 3

Our operations in Kenya ................................................................................................................ 3 Our operations in Malawi .............................................................................................................. 4

Why Malawi? .................................................................................................................... 5

Our Projects in Malawi ...................................................................................................... 6 Food Stations – Urgently needed ................................................................................................ 6 Build Nursery Schools ................................................................................................................. 6 Support Education of Brilliant-‐but-‐needy students. .................................................................... 7

How can you support us? .................................................................................................. 7 Sponsor the Food Counters ........................................................................................................ 7 Sponsor a child ........................................................................................................................... 8 Help build a nursery school ........................................................................................................ 9

How to contact us? .......................................................................................................... 10

Our Bank Account Details ................................................................................................ 11

Annemarie Foundation, PO Box 744, 5 Miles,

Zomba – Blantyre Road, Zomba, Malawi.

Phone (M): +265-99 452 4046 +265-99 134 5771

[email protected]

“Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for Me.” Jesus Christ (Mathew 25:40).


Introduction The Founder The founder, Shaji Jose Parayil, went for Camino de Santiago, a pilgrimage of 800 kilometers walk starting from St Jean pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain to reach St James Cathedral where the remains of Apostle St James, the patron saint of Spain and Portugal, is believed to be buried. There he promised Jesus and St James to establish “Annemarie Foundation” as a charitable organization to serve the poor, based on the guidance from Jesus Christ given through the book of Mathew, in chapter 25 verses 31-46. The statement, “Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did to Me” is the mission statement of Annemarie Foundation. “Lighting the lamp of love” is the tagline, which is implicitly symbolized in the logo. While the driving force behind the Foundation is the words of Jesus, the Founder loves and respects all humans, and all forms of lives, as the divine creations of God.

More about the founder can be seen in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fN-FXj4gxQU and

www.shajiparayil.com



The Foundation Annemarie Foundation is a registered charitable organization (NGO) operating in Africa - in Kenya and in Malawi. The primary mission of the Foundation is to create good citizens in those poor countries by supporting the education of the underprivileged children. We do it by sponsoring student fees and other related expenses, monitoring the academic performances of the children and staying in active touch with those students, their families and teachers. Our operations in Kenya At the moment, the Foundation supports fifteen children in Kenya. The students have been personally chosen by the Founder after professional screening of their academic records and family circumstances. They are currently studying in some of the best schools in Kenya, funded by the Foundation. The first student, Joseph Mbuthiya Kanyiri, selected and supported since early 2012, is currently doing his third year Mechanical Engineering in National Polytechnic, Nyeri.

Figure 1 Founder with Annemarie's children and parents/guardians during the annual camp held at Nyeri during May 2016

We also do auxiliary projects to support those in need. One of them was to provide used cloths to poor children and families in Kenya supported by St Francis Church, Jebel Ali. Some pictures of this project are below. A video of this is available in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLXj0rcJ__w



Our operations in Malawi

Figure 2 Office of Annemarie Foundation in Malawi

In Malawi, the Foundation operates in Zomba and Dedza districts. Our first project there was to help build a school (and a church) in partnership with the villagers and well wishers in the Chabwera village, where around 600 children are studying at present, in Annemarie’s School.

Figure 3Annemarie's School and Church in Chabwera, Dedza, Malawi

Figure 4With he Bishop, priests, parishioners, and villagers, during the inauguration of the school and church



Figure 5 With Immanuel, our first child under sponsorship, in Malawi; a visit to student’s home(right).

At the moment, we are increasingly focusing to support Malawi.

Why Malawi? According to the World Bank 2016 report, Malawi is the poorest country in the world with the lowest GDP per capita. On top of that, as per official data, 10.8% of the population are HIV infected;; unofficial estimates are much higher. Life expectancy is one of the lowest in the world, with HIV and Malaria among the major causes of death. Infant mortality rate as of 2015 is 43/1000, one of the highest in the world. For every 100,000 live births in Malawi, 807 mothers die as a result of pregnancy and childbirth related causes. There are 6.8 million children in Malawi, 51% of the population. Out of that 6.8 million children, one million children are orphans, more than half of them have lost one or both parents to AIDS. Malawi is a landlocked country, with no sea ports;; air transport is also very expensive and time consuming. http://www.unicef.org/malawi/children.html

During this month, in September 2016, the founder visited Malawi again, his third trip. He and the Malawian trustees - Hon Charles Tikhiwa MP and Fr Sherin Cheranthuruthy, a Capuchin priest – visited the remote villages in Zomba district. He was shocked by the looming poverty and starvation faced by the people there due to the prolonged drought which experts say is caused by the weather phenomenon known as El Nino. Its just the beginning of summer there and people are already starving and begging for food. This situation is much different than what he had witnessed during previous visits. Most of the rivers are dry and its dust everywhere. The government of Malawi has declared a national emergency in April 2016, due to shortage of food and a committee headed by the Vice President of the country is overseeing the disaster recovery efforts. The bishops of Catholic and Prebyterian churches have requested the international community for urgent help. The World Food Program (WFP) of UN has launched the largest ever relief program in the countries history, with estimates of more than 40% of the population suffering from hunger already;; the worst summer months are yet to come, from November to February. Existing efforts and resources are hardly sufficient, as we had witnessed there. https://www.wfp.org/news/news-release/wfp-begins-unprecedented-emergency-food-relief-operation-drought-hit-malawi



Our Projects in Malawi Food Stations – Urgently needed

Based on the situations witnessed there, the Foundation is currently working to establish food counters (stations) in those villages and small towns which will serve porridge to the hungry children and elderly. The local Member of Parliament, Hon Charles Tikhiwa, and Archbishop of Blantyre, His Grace Thomas Luke Msusa, have promised premises and volunteers to support running these food counters. Many nursery schools will work with us to cook and serve food in their empty kitchens to feed their children and grandparents, if we succeed to bring maize floor to their kitchen. Maize floor is their main food, which they use to cook porridge, a common meal locally called, Likuni Phala.

We plan to serve approximately 500 meals per day, one meal per person, at one such food counter;; they will operate from November to February, the most difficult months. The number of counters we can operate is dependent on the amount of financial support we can mobilize.

Build Nursery Schools We have made agreements in principle with more than three dozen village chiefs (locally known as Fumu) to support their efforts to build nursery schools to house up to 200 children between the age group of 3 to 5. Providing porridge for children in these nurseries are essential to attract them and also to convince their parents to send their children to school.

The villagers will make and provide us with sufficient bricks, as can be seen in the picture below. We will provide the remaining building materials and construct a stable roof for the children to study and play.



Support Education of Brilliant-‐but-‐needy students. This is our primary mission. We liaise with local schools, churches, government authorities at the educational, women and child development departments of the Zomba and Dedza districts to identify children who are very good in studies, who without financial assistance would not be able to pursue their secondary school studies. Orphans, children of single mothers, single fathers and physically challenged children get higher precedence for selection over the others. Once selected, we send them to the best schools in the country.

How can you support us? Sponsor the Food Counters

This is the most urgent need. A donation of 25 US dollars ( 1,700/- Indian rupees, or 93 UAE Dirhms) can help us to feed a nursery school child for two months!! This includes the cost of maize flour, groundnut flour, salt, sugar, firewood, cost of transportation, monitoring and book keeping, tip for the local volunteers (who cook, distribute the food for the people, wash the utensils, …)

Figure 6 Cooking Likuni Phala



The detailed cost workout to run a food counter is shown below.

Price per 50 KG bag of maize grain = 12,500 Malawian Kwacha, approx. 17.5 US dollars. Meals per one such bag = 250 meals (persons) approximately.Thus to serve 500 persons, we need two 50 kg bags per day, per station, costing 35 US Dollars per day. Hence the cost of food materials for running a food counter station for 4 months from November to February = 4 X 30 X 35 = 4,200 USD, per food station, for four months. Approximate supporting cost (transportation, flour mills charges to flour the grains, tips for volunteers who cook, and other similar expenses) would be around USD 700 per station for a period of four months. Thus the total cost of 500 meals per day, for four months (120 days) would be around 4,900 US dollars.

Depending on the finance we are able to raise, the number of food counters will increase;; the volunteers, local nurseries and churches are ready to help us with premises and labor, thus enabling us to run many such stations subject only to our ability to mobilize the money needed to run them.

Sponsor a child Support individual students for secondary school studies, which is from Form I (9th Standard) to Form IV (12th Standard). During this trip, we have shortlisted 59 eligible students for secondary school studies who are good in studies, but extremely poor to pay the tuition and/or boarding fees. The school fees per student are as follows:

1. 150 US dollars per year for community secondary schools. They have no boarding facilities;; these are based in local communities.

2. 150 US dollars per year for district level secondary schools. This the fee for day scholars. Students with a better performance at primary school secure seats here.

3. 300 US dollars per year for district level secondary schools. This the fee for tuition plus boarding. Students with a better performance at primary school secure seats in such schools with boarding facilities.

4. 400 dollars a year, in the national secondary schools. These are the best schools in the country. Students are admitted on a merit basis based on their primary school results. Many children who gets admission here are not able to study here because of the higher fees and choose the community secondary schools instead.



Help build a nursery school With more than 20% of the children being orphans, and more than 40% of the entire population already starving there is a special need to build nursery schools here in Malawi. If we can provide food at these centers, they will save the children from hunger and malnutrition. Such schools and the staff members would offer care and affection for those innocent children, who are deprived of love and food.

As we build these schools, with the support of local communities who would provide us bricks (and also sand in some cases), the cost for building a nursery school with three class rooms and two external toilets is approximately 2,500/- US dollars. Currently, we have requests to build 34 such nursery schools from local villages, which have more than 200 children in the age group of 3 to 5 years.



How to contact us? Our address in Malawi is:

Annemarie Foundation, PO Box 744, 5 Miles, Zomba – Blantyre Road, Zomba, Malawi. Phone : +265-99 452 4046 Website: www.annemariefoundation.org (currently under construction,

expected to be ready by Nov 2016) Email: [email protected]

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AnnemarieFoundation/

You can also contact

Name Position Phone Email

Shaji Jose Parayil

Founder, Chairman

+265 – 99-438-9945 (Malawi)

+91-9495-559182 (India)

+971-56-1167444 (Dubai)

[email protected]

Hon Charles Tikhiwa, MP

Trustee, Member of Parliament

+265-99 452 4046 (Malawi)

[email protected]

Fr Sherin Cheranthuruty

Trustee, Priest

+265-99 134 5771

[email protected]



Our Bank Account Details Our USD account details in Malawi are given below: Account Number: 0240088869200 Account Name: Annemarie Foundation Address: PO Box 744, 5 Miles, Zomba, Malawi Country: Malawi (MW) Name and Address of Bank: Standard Bank, Zomba Branch, Malawi

Sort Code: 010306 SWIFT Code: SBICMWMX

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