Scotland and Malawi: One Thousand Partnerships, Every Scottish Constituency

Scotland and Malawi: One Thousand Partnerships, every Scottish Constituency

May 2017

An updated all-party report published by the Scotland Malawi Partnership and the Scottish Parliament, Malawi Cross Party Group celebrating 1,100+ civic links between Scotland and Malawi, spread across every Holyrood Constituency and Region.

Executive Summary:

The Scotland Malawi Partnership, with the Scottish Parliament’s Malawi Cross Party Group, is proud to co-publish this all- party report celebrating 1,100+ civic links between Scotland and Malawi, now spread across all 73 Holyrood constituencies and eight Holyrood regions.

Every MSP in the Scottish Parliament has active Malawi links in their constituency and region, for which there is strong continued support from all five political parties represented in Parliament.

The University of Edinburgh estimates that there are more than 94,000 Scots actively involved in the 1,131 Malawi links detailed in this report, with more than 300,000 Scots and four million Malawians benefitting annually from these civic partnerships.

In recent years the Scottish Parliament and successive Scottish Governments have been instrumental in developing Scotland’s historic friendship with Malawi, which dates back more than 150 years to the travels of Dr David Livingstone.

Today, almost half of all Scots can name a friend or family member involved in a civic link with Malawi.

While there is an incredible breadth and diversity in the bilateral relationship, there is a common thread which unites all these individual links: a belief in working through two-way dignified partnership, rather than one-way charity, and a celebration of the role wider civic society can and does have, at both sides of the partnership. This sense of partnership, civic engagement and good global citizenship are at the core of Scotland’s distinctive sense of internationalism.

This report does not set out to present an exhaustive list of all individual partnerships with Malawi. Scotland’s civic links with Malawi are dynamic, community-led and bottom-up and, as such, there will no doubt be many links that are missed in these pages. Rather, this report celebrates the moment the Scotland Malawi Partnership, as the national coordinating network, exceeded 1,000 members, spread across every Holyrood constituency.

For more details about Scotland’s friendship with Malawi please visit: www.scotland-malawipartnership.org.

Photo: Scotland Malawi Partnership AGM, 2015

CONTENTS:

All-party Foreword: Pg 3 Messages of support from all five Party Leaders

1,131 Malawi links: Pg 5

Scotland and Malawi by numbers: Pg 12

Scotland’s links with Malawi: Pg 13

Scottish Government Malawi Development Programme: Pg 15

Scottish Parliament Malawi Cross Party Group: Pg 15

Malawi links by Region and Constituency

Mid Scotland and Fife Region: Pg 61 Central Scotland Region: Pg 16 Clackmannanshire and Dunblane Pg 62 Airdrie and Shotts Pg 17 Cowdenbeath Pg 63 Coatbridge and Chryston Pg 18 Dunfermline Pg 64 Cumbernauld and Kilsyth Pg 19 Kirkcaldy Pg 65 East Kilbride Pg 20 Mid Fife and Glenrothes Pg 66 Falkirk East Pg 21 North East Fife Pg 67 Falkirk West Pg 22 Perthshire North Pg 68 Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse Pg 23 Perthshire South and Kinross-shire Pg 69 Motherwell and Wishaw Pg 24 Stirling Pg 70 Uddingston and Bellshill Pg 25 North East Scotland Region: Pg 71 Glasgow Region: Pg 27 Aberdeen Central Pg 72 Glasgow Anniesland Pg 28 Aberdeen Donside Pg 73 Glasgow Cathcart Pg 29 Aberdeen South and North Kincardine Pg 74 Glasgow Kelvin Pg 30 Aberdeenshire East Pg 75 Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn Pg 32 Aberdeenshire West Pg 76 Glasgow Pollok Pg 33 Angus North and Mearns Pg 77 Glasgow Provan Pg 34 Angus South Pg 78 Glasgow Shettleston Pg 35 Banffshire and Buchan Coast Pg 79 Glasgow Southside Pg 36 Dundee City East Pg 80 Rutherglen Pg 37 Dundee City West Pg 81

Highlands and Islands Region: Pg 39 South Scotland Region: Pg 82 Argyll and Bute Pg 40 Ayr Pg 83 Caithness, Sutherland and Ross Pg 41 Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley Pg 84 Na h-Eileanan and Iar Pg 42 Clydesdale Pg 85 Inverness and Nairn Pg 43 Dumfriesshire Pg 86 Moray Pg 44 East Lothian Pg 87 Orkney Islands Pg 45 Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire Pg 88 Shetland Islands Pg 46 Galloway and West Dumfries Pg 89 Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch Pg 47 Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley Pg 90 Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale Pg 91 Lothian Region: Pg 48 Almond Valley Pg 49 West Scotland Region: Pg 92 Edinburgh Central Pg 50 Clydebank and Milngavie Pg 93 Edinburgh Eastern Pg 53 Cunninghame North Pg 94 Edinburgh Northern and Leith Pg 54 Cunninghame South Pg 95 Edinburgh Pentlands Pg 55 Dumbarton Pg 96 Edinburgh Southern Pg 56 Eastwood Pg 97 Edinburgh Western Pg 57 Greenock and Inverclyde Pg 98 Linlithgow Pg 58 Paisley Pg 99 Midlothian North and Musselburgh Pg 59 Renfrewshire North and West Pg 100 Renfrewshire South Pg 101 Strathkelvin and Bearsden Pg 102

All-party Foreword:

As a symbol of the continuing all-party support for Scotland’s friendship with Malawi, we are delighted to stand with the Leaders of all political parties in the Scottish Parliament, as we launch this report celebrating 1,100+ members of the Scotland Malawi Partnership.

Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Leader, Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland:

“I am very proud of the links that exist between Scotland and Malawi and want these to be strengthened still further.

“As First Minister I was honoured to host His Excellency Mr Kena Mphonda, the Malawian High Commissioner, in November last year to celebrate 10 years of governmental links, links which were forged in the over 150 years that the people of Scotland and Malawi have worked closely together to help alleviate poverty.

“This report, produced by the Scottish Government-funded Scotland Malawi Partnership, shows the depth of the enduring relationship we enjoy, with links to Malawi from communities in every part of Scotland.”

Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader, Scottish Conservative Party

“I am delighted to welcome the publication of this report.

“The links between Scotland and Malawi are deep, enduring and worthy of celebration.

“This report stands as a testimony to that – highlighting the civic partnerships which exist across each Holyrood constituency and region.

“At heart, this is about friendship. Not just between governments, but between two peoples. Each year thousands of Scots and Malawians stand side-by-side and work together to achieve common goals.

“We should be proud of these bonds and I congratulate the Scotland Malawi Partnership for everything they do to further this cause.”

Kezia Dugdale MSP, Leader, Scottish Labour Party

“Scotland’s strong relationship with Malawi has continued to grow over the past two centuries and I am delighted to support the Scotland Malawi Partnership and everyone involved with the organisation.

“I would like to congratulate them on their new report celebrating the fact that there are now community-to-community links with the Malawi in every single constituency in Scotland.”

“The increasing number of Scots actively involved in links with Malawi through our schools and universities through to charities, hospitals and local businesses shows the kindness at the heart of the Scottish character.

“They should all be incredibly proud in creating one of the strongest bilateral relationships in the world. I look forward to working alongside you all as that relationship continues to grow.”

Willie Rennie MSP, Leaders, Scottish Liberal Democrats

"It is truly impressive that over one thousand Scottish organisations and key individuals have active links with Malawi.

“Through education, communication and engagement we are forging a lasting relationship with this fascinating and creative country at the heart of Africa.

“Together Scotland and Malawi can grow and prosper together. I am particularly pleased to see the deep links with schools in my constituency including my old primary school of Strathmiglo."

Patrick Harvie MSP, Leader, Scottish Green Party

“I am delighted to see Scotland’s long-standing friendship with Malawi continue to grow from strength to strength. More and more communities the length and breadth of Scotland are now involved in the people-to-people partnerships.

“This represents the best of Scottish internationalism, which will contribute to sustainable development and to global challenges such as equality and human rights. I congratulate the Scotland Malawi Partnership for its work coordinating these many civic links and look forward to continuing to work closely with the network.” 4

Celebrating 1,131 civic links with Malawi, including with:

13 universities  Edinburgh Napier University  The Open University in  University of St Andrews  Glasgow Caledonian Scotland  University of Stirling University  University of Aberdeen  University of Strathclyde  Queen Margaret University  University of Dundee  University of West of  Robert Gordon University  University of Edinburgh Scotland  University of Glasgow

8 colleges  Al Maktoum College of  UK Co-operative College  Royal College of Surgeons of Higher Education  Scotland’s Rural College Edinburgh  Edinburgh College  Royal College of Midwives  Royal College of Physicians  Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh and Surgeons of Glasgow

15 local authorities  East Ayrshire Council  Glasgow City Council  Perth and Kinross Council  East Dunbartonshire Council  Highland Council  Renfrewshire Council  East Lothian Council  Inverclyde Council (Education  South Ayrshire Council  Falkirk Council Education Services)  Stirling Council Services  North Ayrshire Council  Fife Council  North Lanarkshire Council  City of Edinburgh Council

233 primary and secondary schools  Abercorn Secondary  Beeslack Community  Clydemuir Primary  Alford Primary High  Clydeview Academy  Alloa Academy  Bell Baxter Cluster  Coatbridge High  Alloway Primary  Blairdardie Primary  Corstorphine Primary  Alva Academy  Blairgowrie High  Craighead Primary  Anderson High  Broomhouse Primary  Craigholme School  Anderston Primary  Broughton High  Craiglockhart Primary  Anstruther Primary  Bruntsfield Primary  Croftcroighn Primary ASN  Arnwood Nursery School  Burntisland Primary  Crown Primary  Auchenharvie Academy  Caldercuilt Primary  Culloden Academy  Auchtermuchty Primary  Caldervale High  Cumnock Academy  Balgreen Primary  Caledonia Primary  Currie Primary  Balwearie High  Carbrain Primary  Dalbeattie High  Bannerman High  Carleton Primary  Dalgety Bay Primary  Bannockburn High  Carmyle Primary  Dalmally Primary  Barrhead High  Carricknowe Primary  Dean Park Primary  Bearsden Academy  Carstairs Primary  Doonfoot Primary  Bearsden Primary  Castlehill Primary  Donibristle Primary  Beath High  Clarkston Primary  Dornoch Academy  Cleveden Secondary  Dumbarton Academy 5

 Dunbarney Primary  Kibble Education and  Newtongrange Primary  Dunblane High Care Centre  North Berwick High  Dunbog Primary  Killermont Primary  Notre Dame High  Dunoon Grammar  Kilmacolm Primary  Oakbank Primary  Dyke Primary  Kilmaron Special School  Oban High  East Craigs Primary  Kilmory Primary  Our Lady of the  Eastbank Academy  Kincardine in Menteith Annunciation Primary  Ednam Primary Primary  Park Mains High  Eigg Primary  King's Oak Primary  Penicuik High  Elie Primary  King's Park Secondary  Perth College  Falkirk High  Kingussie High  Perth Grammar  Ferryhill Primary  Kinnaird Primary  Pilrig Park  Forres Academy  Kinnoull Primary  Port Glasgow High  Forrester High  Kirkcaldy High  Portmoak Primary  Fortrose Academy  Kirkcowan Primary  Prestwick Academy  Fox Covert Primary  Kirkintilloch High  Quarry Brae Primary  Gairloch High  Kirklandneuk Primary  Ratho Primary  Garvel School  Kirkmichael Primary  Redburn School  George Watson’s College  Knightsridge Primary  Renton Primary  Gergask Primary  Knightswood Secondary  Rosshall Academy  Gilmerton Primary  Largs Academy  Rothesay Academy  Glengowan Primary  Lawmuir Primary  Sanday Community  Gleniffer High  Leith Academy  Smithycroft Secondary  Glenrothes High  Lenzie Academy  South Morningside  Gourock Primary  Letham Primary Primary  Gracemount High  Libberton Primary  Springburn Academy  Grantown Grammar  Lochardil Primary  Springfield Primary  Greenfaulds High  Lochgelly High  St Agatha's RC Primary  Gullane Primary  Lockerbie Academy  St Andrews RC Secondary  Haghill Park Primary  Logie Coldstone Primary  St Andrew's and St  Hampden School (ASN)  Lorne Primary Bride's High  Hanover Street School  Mallaig High  St Benedict's High  Head of Muir Primary  Marr College  St Bernadette's Primary  Hillhead High  Millburn Academy  St Bridget's Primary  Holyrood Secondary  Milne’s High  St Clare's Primary  Hutcheson’s School  Milne's Primary  St Columba's High  International School of  Monquhitter Primary  St. Cuthbert’s Primary Aberdeen  Morrison's Academy  St David's Primary  Inverclyde Academy  Muck Primary  St Dominics Nursery  Invergowrie Primary  Munlochy Primary  St. George’s School for  Inverkip Primary  New Monkland Primary Girls  Inverness Royal Academy and Nursery School  St Helens Primary  Iona Primary  Newcraighall Primary  St Joachim's Primary  Juniper Green Primary  Newhill Primary  St. John the Baptist  Kelvindale Primary  Newton Primary Primary

 St Kentigern's Academy  St. Stephen's Primary  The Mary Erskine School  St. Margaret's Academy  Star Primary  Todholm Primary  St Margaret's High  Stenhouse Primary  Towie Primary  St Marnock's Primary  Stewart Melville College  Trinity Primary  St Mary Episcopal  Stewart Melville Junior  Tullos Primary Primary  Stockbridge Primary  Wallace Primary  St Mary's Primary  Strathallan School  Wallacewell Primary  St Mary's Primary  Strathaven Academy  Wemyss Bay Primary (Coatbridge)  Strathburn Primary  Westray Junior High  St. Mary's RC Primary  Strathmiglo Primary  Whinhill Primary  St Matthew’s Academy  Strone Primary  Whitburn Academy  St Maurice's High  Sunnyside Primary  Whitecrook Primary  St Michael's Primary  Swinton Primary  Williamwood High  St Ninian's Primary  Tain Royal Academy  Winchburgh Primary  St Ninian's RC Primary  Taobh Na Pairce  Winton Primary  St. Patrick's Primary  Tarfside Primary  Wiston Primary  St Ronan's  The Community School  Primary of Auchterarder

80 community groups and faith partnerships  Aberdour St Fillan’s  Dalgety Parish Church  Kwenderana Partnership  Aberdeen Kirk of St Nicholas  Dingwall Caste Street Church Group  Alloway Parish Church  District 1020 Rotary  Larbert West Parish Church  Arbuthnott, Bervie and International  Largs St Johns Kinneff Church  Dunblane Likhubula Link  Livingstonia-Blantyre-Zambia  Ardrishaig Parish Church  Dundonald Parish Church Fellowship  Ardrossan Presbytery  Edinburgh Holy Trinity  Lochfyneside Church  Auchtermuchty-Namadzi  Ferryhill Church  Lochgair Church Church Partnership  Friends of Malawi Guiding  Lochgilphead Parish Church  Auld Kirk of Ayr  Giffnock South Parish Church  Longniddry Church  Ayr Presbytery Malawi  Glassary, Kilmartin and Ford  Melrose and Peebles Initiative Parish Church Presbytery  Ballantrae Parish Church  Glenaray and Inveraray  Mid Argyll Malawi Twinning  Bothwell and Uddingston Parish Church Group Rotary Club  Greenbank Parish Church  Midstocket Church  Bothwell Parish Church  Holburn West Church  Monkton and Prestwick  Busby Parish Church  Innerleithen, Traquir and North Parish Church  Cairns Church Walkerburn Church  New Cumnock Parish Church  Churches of God - Fellowship  Kilbrandon Church  Newton Wallacetown Church Relief  Kilchattan Church  North Knapdale Church  Craignish Parish Church  Kilmelford Church  Old Parish & St Paul’s Church  Cults Parish Church  Kilmuir and Logie Easter  Orkney Presbytery - Orkney  Cumlodden Church  Kilninver Parish Church Malawi Partnership  Dalgety Bay Friends of  Kingcase Parish Church  Orwell and Portmoak Parish Engcongolweni Church

 Peterculter Parish Church  St Andrew’s Church  St Meddan’s Church  Portland Parish Church  St Bernadette's Malawi  St Nicholas Parish Church  Presbytery of Aberdeen Partnership  St Stephen’s Church  Provincial Overseas Cmte of  St Columba’s Church  Stewarton John Knox Church Scot. Episcopal Church  St Columba’s Parish Church  The Dalitso Project  Ross Presbytery  St Kane’s Church  Wider Horizons  Rubislaw Church  St. Kenneth's Malawi  Williamwood Parish Church  South Holburn Church Partnership  South Knapdale Parish  St Mark’s Church Church  St Mary’s Church

144 NGOs, charities and businesses  500 Miles  Dunira Strategy  Lilongwe Wildlife Trust  Active Learning Centre  ECRAD  Link Community  Africa Health Trust  Equality Network Development  Angels International  EMMS International  Little Bird Coffee House  APSTAR  First Aid Africa  Loveness JZ Charity Trust  ARCHIE Global Surgery  FOMO (Friends of Mulanje Malawi  Bangwe Community Partners Orphans)  Luckie Beans Ltd.  Book bus  FROM - Famine Relief for  LUV (Leprosy@Utale Village)  Cameron Tours of Scotland Orphans in Malawi  Malawi Consulate  CBM UK  GALVmed  Malawi Fruits  Celsius Global Solutions  Global Concerns Trust  Malawi Initiative for National  Cerebral Palsy Africa  Global Justice Development (MIND)  Challenges Worldwide  Grow Movement  Malawi Millennium Project  Chance for Change  Haemophilia Scotland  Malawi Tourism Marketing  Child Support Project  Health Protection Scotland Consortium  Association of Malawians in  Humanist Society Scotland  Mamie Martin Fund Scotland  Imani Enterprise (part of  Mary's Meals  Children’s Medical Care Imani Development)  McConnell International Malawi  Inglis Veterinary Centres Ltd Foundation  Christian Aid Scotland  Institute for Global Health &  Meningitis Research  Church of Scotland World Development Foundation (MRF) Mission Council  Immpact  Microloan Foundation  CIFA Trust  Isaro Social Integration  Mission Rabies  Classrooms for Malawi Network  Mondo Loco Foundation  Community Energy Scotland  Italian Scotland  Mother and Child Rights  Concern Worldwide  Janice Jamieson Memorial (macRights)  CRADALL Foundation  National Museums Scotland  CREATIVenergie  Jubilee Scotland  NHS Tayside Emergency  Cross Party Group on Malawi  Just Trading Scotland Medicine Service - Scottish Parliament  Kenyawi Kids  One World Shop  Developing World Health  Killearn Malawi Group  Open Arms Malawi  Dochas Education Trust  Lake of Stars Ltd  Opportunity International  Dulas Limited  Lattitude Global Volunteering  Orkidstudio

 Ovenbird Coffee Roasters  Scottish Countryside Rangers  The John & Mary Elliot  Oxfam Scotland Association Memorial trust  Plan Vivo Foundation  Scottish Malawi Foundation  The Kerusso Trust  Postcode African Trust  Scottish Relief Fund for  The Landirani Trust  Power Global Solutions Malawi  The National Records of  Project Trust  Sense Scotland Scotland  Provincial Grand Lodge of  Smalls for All  The Orskov Foundation Ross and Cromarty  Smileawi  The Responsible Safari  Rare Tea Company  Social Enterprise Academy Company  Rare Charity  Spirit Aid  The Scotland Malawi Mental  RIPPLE Africa  STA Travel Health Education Project  RZSS Edinburgh Zoo  St Andrew’s Children's  The Scottish Bible Society  R.S. Garrow Ltd Society  The Soko Fund  Royal Agricultural Society of  Student Volunteers Abroad  The Turing Trust the Commonwealth (SVA)  The Wickerman Festival  Royal Environmental Health  Students for Kids  Traidcraft Institute of Scotland International Projects  Twinning of Scottish and  RSE Young Academy of  Students for Malawi Malawian Clinics Project Scotland  Sue Ryder  UNICEF  RSPB Scotland  Teamwork Trust  VSO Scotland  Scotland Lights Up Malawi  Tearfund  Water For All Africa  Scotland Malawi Anaesthesia  The AMECA Trust  WaterAid  Scotland Malawi Business  The Chesney Trust (for  Wellcome Trust Centre for Group Education in Malawi) Molecular Parasitology  ScotMal Oral Health Aid  The Healthy Lifestyle Project  Woodford Foundation (ScoHA)  The International Union  Xchange Scotland  Scottish Catholic Against Tuberculosis and  Zambesi Mission International Aid Fund Lung Disease

(SCIAF)  The James Hutton Institute

264 community champions  Katharina Adler  Joseph Bakuwa  Gemma Burnside  Wendy Ager  Enock Bamusi  John Burton  Iris Aitchison  Tankhulenji Bamusi  John Calder  Kenneth Allen  Ray Baxter  James Campbell  David Alsop  Claudia Beamish  Christine Campbell  Lorna Argente  Maria Beard  Charles Caseby  Rosemary Argente  Tony Begley  Mizeck Chagunda  Sarah Ariyo  Andrew and Kim Black  Chimwemwe Chagunda  Vivienne Armstrong  Margaret Blyth  Nancy Elsie Chawawa  Nan Arnott  Angela Botha  Chembe Chipwatali  Robin Arnott  Willings Botha  Limbikani Chipwatali  David Atherton  Chris Brotherton  Saarah Chipwatali  Lesley Atkins  Anita Brown  Shadrech Chipwatali  Geoffrey Baker  Isabel Bruce  Bless Chiwanda

 Remus Chunda  Maureen Gowans  Will Leschen  Zamiwe Chunda  Liz Grant  Timothy Lewis  Calvin Clarke  Jenni Gudgeon  Dorothy Logie  Adam Cobham  Simon Guild  Davie Luhanga  Alison Connelly  Alice Gwedeza  Lisa Luhanga  Stephen Connelly  Ann Hale  Burnett Lunan  Liz Cotton  Jennifer Hall  John Lwanda  Ishbel Coy  Clifford Harawa  Lindsey Macdonald  Alli Coyle  Tiinonge Harawa  Claire Mackintosh  Heather Cubie  Rose Mary Harley  Alastair Macintyre  Andrew Cubie  Robin Harper  Georgina Macmillan  Jillian Davey  John Harrison  Gordon Macpherson  Ian Davey  Sharon Hayward  Stephy Makungwa  Peter Davey  Anne Hepburn  Lesley Mann  Georgy Davis  Pat Hiddleston  Grace Manyika  Gillian Davies  Lorna Hobson  Abner Maosa  Anne Dawson  Joan Hoggan  Fiona Martin  Sarah Dewhurst  Evelyn Hope  Colin Martin  Ian Dickson  Neil Horne  John Martin  Helen Donald  Peter Howson  Ronnia Matemba  Walter Dunlop  Jonathan Hunter  Yonah Matemba  Moira Dunworth  Marie-Anne Hutchison  Michael Matheson  Geoff Earl  Nida Ilahi  Agatha Mazengera  Martyn Edelsten  Alayna Imlah  Dinnah Mbisa  Robert England  Clive Irvine  Rachel Macleod  Thomas Eric  Kenneth Jeffrey  Kathryn Martin  Laura Esplin  Fiona Johnson-Chalamanda  Liz McCall  John Fanning  Irene Johnstone  John McCracken  Natalie Faulds  James Johnstone  Douglas McCulloch  Patricia Ferguson  Thokozani Kachale  Carol McGregor  Martha Burns Findlay  Blessings Kachale  Maureen McIntyre  George Finlayson  Robert Kalin  Christina McKelvie  Calum Fisher  Chisomo Kalinga  Kathleen McMullen  Neil Fisher  Tatyana Kalinga  Colin McLean  Claire Foottit  Michael Joe Kamisa  Norah McLintock  Jane Forster  Miriam Kasowanjete  Ewan McVicar  Murdo Fraser  Arnold Khongono  Helen Mein  Alan and Edith Fraser  Wonderful Khonje  Jamie Melville  Ian Gibson  Nabulambo Jessie Kilembe  Lorraine Miller  John Gillies  Isobel King  Stephen Misanjo  Wesley Gold  John Knox  Charlotte Mitchell  Chimwemwe Gondwe  Michelle Kohler  Ian William Mitchell  Susan Gondwe  Rebecca Laidlaw  Precious Mkandawire  Ian A D Gordon  John Lang  Brave Mnyayi  Andrew Goudie  Derek Law  Mercy Mopiha

 Tracy Morse  Roseby Phalula-Nkalapa  Fiona Talcott  Mandy Mountjoy  Bob Phillips  Steve Taylor  Effie Mpakati Gama  Mercy Phiri  Jack Thompson  Elvis Mpakati Gama  Robias Phiri  Mairi Thomson  Chisimphika Mphande  Peter Raine  Mary Thomson  Peter Mtika  Isobel Reid  Andy Tomison  Roger Mullin  David and Susan Reimer  Juliet Tyson  Thomas Mutangiri  Benoît Rivard  Norman Wagstaffe  Angeline Mwafulirwa  Margaret Robertson  Andrew Walker  Cate Nelson-Shaw  Martyn Roebuck  David Walker  Alphaeus Ngonga  Dorothy Ross  Maureen Watt  Malawi Ngwira  Kenneth Ross  Deria Mary Wells  Shirley Nield  Magdalene Sacranie  Caroline Welsh  David Alex Njaidi  Debbie Scott  James West  Fanny Njaidi  Bob Scott  Peter West  Pearson Nkhoma  Ruth Sewell  Jane Wheelaghan  George Nkosi  Ann Simpson  Graham Whitham  John O'Donoghue  Richard Simpson  Jim Wilkie  Bernadette O'Hare  Eleanor Smart  Magnus Williamson  Lucy Orren  David Somervell  Elizabeth Williamson MBE  Donald Osborne  David Steel  Pam Wilson  Huw Owen  David Stevenson  Ben Wilson  Javier Palencia  Howard Stevenson  Jake Wilson  Andrew Parker  Marie Stewart  Raymond Wilson  Kay Patterson  Dorothy Steyn  Alex Evan Wong  Morag Paul  Heather Sutherland  Anne Evan Wong  Martha Payne  Kathryn Sutherland  Jack Wrigley  Elspeth Pentland  Dalene Swanson  Derek Young

And 374 Youth Ambassadors (Not named due to child protection)

Scotland’s links with Malawi:

Connecting SMP Members with their local MSP:

The Scotland Malawi Partnership is politically neutral and non-governmental. However, in helping coordinate, represent and support our members’ work with “There are Malawi Malawi, it is important we connect effectively with the governments and parliaments of Scotland, the UK and Malawi. We help to build and maintain links in every single strong all-party parliamentary support for Scotland’s friendship with Malawi in all three parliaments and are always keen to help connect Members of constituency of Parliament with SMP members in their constituency. Scotland.”

To this end, we publish details of how Scotland’s links with Malawi are spread across Scotland and were excited to announce in September 2016 that there are Malawi links in every single Holyrood constituency and region in Scotland. This document gives examples of Malawi links, constituency by constituency, in order to help our members connect with their local MSP, and to keep MSPs briefed on local links with Malawi. The links contained in this report are just a fraction of all the Malawi links across Scotland.

About the Scotland Malawi Partnership

The Scotland Malawi Partnership (SMP) is the national civil society network coordinating, representing and supporting the people-to-people links between our two nations. We represent a community of 94,000 Scots with active links to Malawi.

We have more than 1,100 member organisations and key individuals, including: half Scotland’s local authorities, every Scottish university and most of its colleges, 230+ primary and secondary schools, dozens of different churches and faith-based groups, hospitals, businesses, charities and NGOs, and a wide range of grass-root community organisations. Our work permeates almost all sections of Scottish civil society.

We exist to inspire the people and organisations of Scotland to be involved with Malawi in an informed, coordinated and effective way for the benefit of both nations. We do this by providing a forum where ideas, activities and information can be shared on our website, through our online mapping tool and through regular forums, training events and stakeholder meetings.

There is no comparable bilateral relationship anywhere in the world. It is admired and emulated across the globe.

Scale and Impact of Malawi links:

In July 2014, to mark Team Malawi’s arrival at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, the University of Edinburgh published updated research which found that an estimated:  94,000+ Scots are actively involved in links with Malawi (an increase of 10.5% since 2010);  198,000+ Malawians are actively involved in links with Scotland (an increase of 33.7% since 2010);  SMP members contribute more than £40 million in finance and in-kind inputs to their Malawi links (an increase of 33.3% since 2010).

As a separate exercise, the SMP also commissioned a study of 516 randomly selected Scots which found that:  There is four times greater awareness of Scotland’s links with Malawi than any other African country;  46% of Scots personally know someone actively involved in a link with Malawi;  There is an incredible diversity in the links which exist, with more than 40 different types of engagements between Scotland and Malawi named by participants;  74% of Scots are in favour of links with Malawi (55.4% “strongly” in favour), and only 2.4% are against.

Scottish Government Malawi Development Programme:

Since 2005, the Scottish Government has been transforming lives through its own Malawi Development Programme - strengthening the alliance with Malawi by extending a hand of friendship. The Governments of Scotland and Malawi are working together to build a civic coalition in both countries – a partnership of skills and expertise that will fight extreme poverty.

The Scottish Government recognises and encourages links between individuals and organisations which contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and to poverty alleviation.

Guided by the Government of Malawi, the Scottish Government’s International Development Fund supports a range of projects through the Malawi Development Programme, which are delivering on the four strands of the Co-operation Agreement: Civic Governance and Society; Sustainable Economic Development; Health and Education.

In addition, since 2004, the Scottish Government has core funded the Scotland Malawi Partnership to coordinate, represent and support the many civic links with Malawi. In this way, successive Scottish Governments have indirectly supported all 1,131 links outlined in this report and significantly contributed to the development of the people-to-people friendship between our two nations.

Scottish Parliament Malawi Cross Party Group:

The Scottish Parliament’s Malawi Cross Party Group (CPG) exists to develop and enhance links between Scotland and Malawi and to provide a forum for discussion on these matters. In particular, the group focuses on links between the two parliaments and between civil society in each country. In order to achieve this, the group works with Parliamentarians from each legislature, with Malawians living in Scotland and with other organisations working in Malawi.

The Malawi CPG brings together MSPs with an interest in Malawi and works to maintain the strong all-party support that exists in Holyrood for Scotland’s historic friendship with Malawi. It has been Co-convened by Michael Matheson MSP, Karen Gillon MSP and Michael Russell MSP, and latterly by Alexander Stewart MSP and Liam McArthur MSP.

The Malawi CPG has been active in developing and launching this special report.

Central Scotland Region

Alison Harris MSP Mark Griffin MSP Monica Lennon MSP Richard Leonard MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Scottish Labour Scottish Labour and Unionist Party

Margaret Mitchell MSP Graham Simpson MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Elaine Smith MSP and Unionist Party and Unionist Party Scottish Labour 16

Airdrie and Shotts

Local MSP:

Alex Neil MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Caldervale High School: The school is partnered with Luchenza Secondary School, Thyolo region. They will be sending senior pupils to visit their partner school in June 2017.

 Clarkston Primary School, New Monkland Primary and Nursery School, St Dominic’s Nursery and St Margaret's High School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Coatbridge and Chryston

Local MSP:

Fulton MacGregor MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 ECRAD (Empowerment, Counselling, Relief and Development): their aim is to make a real difference among Malawian children orphaned by HIV/AIDS by supporting their education and welfare (food, shelter, education, and medical care). The activities supported cover an orphan care centre, primary school, feeding programme, support and irrigation of 2 acres of land for crops, pigs, poultry (to develop self-sustainability), sport fixtures, promoting health, HIV/AIDS education, an Adult Learning Centre and other community affairs programmes.

 St Michael's Primary School, St Mary's Primary School (Coatbridge) and Coatbridge High School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 The Healthy Lifestyle Project: The Healthy lifestyle Project based at Coatbridge High School, promotes positive and healthy lifestyles to primary and secondary pupils, parents and residents in the Coatbridge area. Scottish teachers and health professionals assist their Malawian partners to encourage, inspire, motivate and empower more girls to access and successfully complete their education. The project uses an integrated holistic strategy to support girls' education, through this they sensitise parents and communities to recognise the value of educating girls.

 WaterAid: WaterAid transforms lives by improving access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities. Since 1981 WaterAid has reached over 14 million people with life-saving water and over 9 million people with sanitation and improved hygiene since 2004. Clean water is essential for life, but one in eight of the world's population does not have access to it. 18

Cumbernauld and Kilsyth

Local MSP:

Jamie Hepburn MSP

Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Greenfaulds High School, Redburn School, St Helen’s Primary School, St Maurice's High School and Carbrain Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Woodford Foundation: their overall aim is to promote improvements in education and vocational training, and in social, spiritual and emotional health, for children and young adults with sensory disabilities in income poor countries. The Woodford Foundation was established by four of the six trustees, who have retired from employment as senior leaders of major organisations for the sensory impaired in the UK.

East Kilbride

Local MSP:

Linda Fabiani MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Power Global Solutions: Power Global Solutions is a media based charity which focuses on working with the less privileged in Malawi to eradicate health problems and develop the education system. They achieve this by providing medical training and equipment in schools and district hospitals as well as health centres. The media section helps other charities and churches to reach the unreachable. They also empower the youth and equip them with sustainable development skills to help them with their wellbeing.

 St Andrew's and St Bride's High School: the school is looking to build strong links with Malawi through the Malawi Project and Mary’s Meals.

Falkirk East

Local MSP:

Angus MacDonald MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Iris Aitchison: Iris went out to Lilongwe in March 2010, as part of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership Quality Strand. On her return, she worked with a team of staff and students from Forth Valley College and they supported the education of four girls with their fundraising initiatives. One of these girls went on to study the Advanced Microsoft Examination (one of only 8 people in the whole of Malawi to gain this qualification). Her industry placement was also funded by them. In addition, they sent clothes, stationery items, footballs and football strips for Chisoma Orphanage in Lilongwe. Iris sought the Principal's approval to work towards Fairtrade Status: this was achieved in March 2011 (reapproved March 2013).

 STA Travel: working with schools, colleges, universities and charity groups, organising group travel arrangements to Malawi.

 St Mary's RC Primary School: the school is creating a partnership with a school in Malawi, to enable children from both countries to become global citizens and learn from one another by bringing the wider world into the classroom.

Falkirk West

Local MSP:

Michael Matheson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Falkirk High School, Head of Muir Primary School and Kinnaird Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Larbert West Parish Church: the church is twinned with Zolozolo West, in Mzuzu. They have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse

Local MSP:

Christina McKelvie MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Glengowan Primary School and St Cuthbert's Primary School: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Glengowan Primary School is joined with Songani Primary School and St Cuthbert’s Primary School would like to build connections with Malawi to support their aim of being a Fairtrade school. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Dr Isabel Bruce OBE: Dr Bruce is interested in developing and supporting sustainable community healthcare initiatives in rural Malawi. She works closely with Bell College, Paisley University and Malawi University (Kamuzu College of Nursing and Blantyre Polytechnique).

 Italian Scotland: a Scottish charity that acts as a one stop shop for all information, events and news about Italy in Scotland. They have chosen to support Malawi due to collaboration with Ms. Rita Milesi, an Italian national who dedicated her life to help vulnerable children in Malawi.

Motherwell and Wishaw

Local MSP:

Clare Adamson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Churches of God - Fellowship Relief: a faith-based organisation which brings social and economic help to their members and others, as well as their primary aim of teaching the Christian faith.

 Malawi Fruits: a young charity (est. 2012) with a vision to stimulate economic development in the North of Malawi through supporting a local partner to set up a food processing business. Their partner is the newly established Myika Food Trust, based in Mzuzu, and they are working with them on business planning for a medium sized enterprise based in Phwezi. Their aim is to have a processing factory which will provide a point of sale for fruit growers throughout Rumphi and further afield and they will produce fruit juices, preserves and dried fruits for sale in Malawi and neighbouring countries.

 St Bernadette's Primary School: the school has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 St Bernadette's Malawi Partnership: following a visit to Malawi last summer, the St. Bernadette’s Parish Priest and the Parish Priest of Namulenga, where he was based, decided to set up a partnership between both parishes and their local schools. As music is a major feature of worship in both communities, they plan to share and exchange recordings of music and hope to fund a visit to Scotland by members of the Namulenga choir. Their initial project is funding a container of goods to Namulenga and raising awareness through the parish bulletin, displays, parish website and social media pages, promoting the cultural traditions of both countries and their shared history.

 Zambesi Mission: Zambesi Mission has been linked with Malawi for more than 100 years. It is a faith-based organisation which has worked alongside churches in Malawi, more especially, but not exclusively, with the Zambesi Evangelical Church, helping to train church leaders. 24

Uddingston and Bellshill

Local MSP:

Richard Lyle MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bothwell and Uddingston Rotary Club: through local fundraising, the Rotary Club of Bothwell and Blantyre has been able to support hospitals in Livingstonia and Likoma Island. It also supports the Open Arms Orphanage in Blantyre.

 Bothwell Parish Church: The Church of Scotland has historic links with Malawi. The congregation at Bothwell foster relationships with the Nyungwe Congregation of the Synod of Livingstonia in the hope that they might strengthen goodwill between our nations and churches.

 Classrooms for Malawi: A relatively new charity which is committed to working with local communities in Malawi to help them improve the environment in which children are taught. This may involve renovating or building new classrooms. The charity has been set up by a group of like-minded people who are totally committed to the education of all children and who all have some association with Malawi having visited or by supporting other initiatives.

 Scottish Countryside Rangers Association: The Scottish Countryside Rangers Association is the professional body working with rangers and environmental workers throughout Scotland. They have many international links and hosted the International Rangers Federation in Stirling in 2006, to which they sponsored several rangers from around the world, including Malawi. Since then they have maintained contact with rangers in the Department of National Parks and Wildlife in Lilongwe as well as private wildlife conservation organisations and NGO's. They regularly gather up ranger equipment and ship it out to Malawi.

 Water For All Africa: An NGO which donates clean water technologies to communities that have no reliable clean water source. They have been working with the Dept. of Water Resources and Management in Lilongwe and Blantyre.

Glasgow

Adam Tomkins MSP Annie Wells MSP Anas Sarwar MSP Patrick Harvie MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Scottish Green Party and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

James Kelly MSP Johann Lamont MSP Pauline McNeill MSP Scottish Labour Scottish Labour Scottish Labour

Glasgow Anniesland

Local MSP:

Bill Kidd MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Blairdardie Primary School, Knightswood Secondary School and St Clare's Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Blairdardie Primary School and Knightswood Secondary School are both planning visits to Malawi to meet with their partner schools; the Catholic Institute Primary School and Lunzu Secondary School respectively. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Kenyawi Kids: A small Scottish founded NGO committed to promoting sustainable orphan care across Malawi. They aim to provide funding for local grassroot projects such as: buying farm land to set up farms, community feeding programmes, vocational skills training, setting up livestock income generating projects and promoting sustainable water sources. Agricultural education alongside the financial sustainability offered to an orphan care project with a working farm, vegetable patch and livestock is invaluable. Food can be grown and excess sold to pay day to day costs such as salaries, utilities and school fees. Ultimately, children can learn key life skills that will help them become self-sufficient upon leaving the orphan care project.

Glasgow Cathcart

Local MSP:

James Dornan MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Children’s Medical Care Malawi: They believe that every child has a basic human right to quality healthcare, yet every day in Malawi, despite the dedicated efforts of healthcare workers, children die because they cannot access the medical care they need. Through healthcare worker training and support they aim to change this.

 Douglas McCulloch: Douglas visited Malawi in 2003 with his wife and family, taking particular interest in the work of the HIV/AIDS Support and Care Programme at Ekwendi Hospital. Through their rock band 'Sons of Thunder', he and his colleagues have raised thousands of pounds since 2004 for HIV/AIDS programmes and he continues to support individuals and causes in Malawi on a personal basis.

 King's Park Secondary and Our Lady of the Annunciation Primary: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Our Lady of the Annunciation Primary is actively linked with the Catholic Institute Primary School. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Ovenbird Coffee Roasters: This business is an ethical coffee roaster which offers Malawian coffee to support the Malawian economy. They use a Direct Trade model, ensuring that they have met all of their growers, checked the working conditions and are certain that payments go straight to the growers.

 Vivienne Armstrong: Vivienne is the Head of Centre in an Early Years establishment in Glasgow. Glasgow City Council education department has a partnership project with the education authority in Blantyre, Malawi (Malawi Leaders of Learning [MLOL]) and this year she was part of that partnership, working with Early Childhood Development Centres in Malawi. She genuinely felt privileged to be part of the project and was inspired by the children and by the dedication and commitment of the volunteer caregivers in the centres.

Glasgow Kelvin

Local MSP:

Sandra White MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Active Learning Centre: the Active Learning Centre has twenty years’ experience working in low and middle- income countries to strengthen peoples' voices, with a particular focus on gender equality, effective democracy and access to justice. They have worked in Malawi for six years now and developed an Access to Justice Project in Dedza and Mangochi, where local women can get free advice/support on a wide range of issues including domestic abuse, inheritance, property law and HIV/Aids.

 Bangwe Community Partners: a funding organisation providing small grants to Community Based Organisations in Bangwe. Since their reconstitution as Bangwe Community Partners in 2016, they have funded a variety of projects, including an orphan care centre and community based disability support organisation.

 Christian Aid Scotland: Christian Aid has been working in Malawi for almost 20 years. Their projects have focused mainly on resilience, disaster risk response and health, including maternal and child health and HIV treatment and prevention. They support vulnerable communities to improve health and build resilience by participating in and influencing development.

 Concern Worldwide: Concern Worldwide is an international humanitarian organisation. They are specialists in tackling hunger with the most vulnerable people in the world’s poorest places. They work in partnership with communities, combining their expertise with the local knowledge to tackle hunger in the long term.

 CRADALL (Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning): a research and development centre with a particular focus on social justice, social inclusion and poverty reduction. It has research interests primarily in Scotland, Africa, Asia and Europe.

 Glasgow Caledonian University: Glasgow Caledonian University staff are currently preparing a diabetes education and innovation project. They are working in consultation with Dr Moffat Nyirenda, a consultant from Malawi currently based in Edinburgh.

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 Health Protection Scotland: Health Protection Scotland advise healthcare workers and the public on travel- associated health risks via their websites Travax and Fitfortravel respectively. They also produce specific guidance on travel risks for groups of travellers, such as school groups.

 Malawi Millennium Project: the main aims of the Malawi Millennium Project are to assist in educating the personnel necessary to train future generations of Malawian teachers, nurses, scientists, technicians and engineers to deal with some of the health and education problems in Malawi.

 Oxfam Scotland: Oxfam has been working in Malawi for more than 20 years. Oxfam provides financial support to more than 15 partner organisations in the country. These organisations work with communities in the five districts of Balaka, Blantyre, Chiradzulu, Phalombe and Thyolo to improve long-term food and income security, mitigate the impact of HIV and AIDS, build the capacity of civil society organisations, and promote good governance, gender equality and the empowerment of women.

 Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund (SCIAF): the official aid and international development charity of the Catholic Church in Scotland. SCIAF has been working in Malawi since 1985 through partnering with local NGOs to implement development and emergency projects. Currently they support two large institutional grants that are jointly funded by the Scottish Government and SCIAF and one emergency project in Malawi that is solely funded by SCIAF.

 Spirit Aid: a humanitarian relief organisation dedicated to children with projects both at home in Central Scotland and abroad. Founded in 2001 by actor and humanitarian David Hayman, their prerogative is to improve children’s lives, either by bettering access to healthcare, education and opportunities, or by responding to humanitarian crisis as and when they can.

 Strathclyde University Graduates Association: the Association is involved in fundraising for Strathclyde University's Malawi projects.

 Student Volunteers Abroad (SVA): a student run organisation based at Glasgow University which has been running for 15 years. SVA currently has two projects running in Malawi, SVA Malawi Bangwe and SVA Malawi Nancholi. They work with a local NGO Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement (AYISE).

 Students for Kids International Projects: SKIP Glasgow is an international development charity run by healthcare students from Glasgow University. They are focused on improving healthcare and education in a Malawian run orphan care centre called Chikonde and Mphatso Orphan Care Centre in Area 25 in Lilongwe, Malawi.

 Students for Malawi: are a grassroots educational charity that harnesses the power of youth to develop innovative solutions to global problems.

 Tearfund: a Christian relief and development organisation. The charity works in partnership with churches and Christian development and relief groups overseas, seeking to build their capacity

 University of Glasgow: the University of Glasgow has a long history of engagement with universities and institutes in many low-income countries in the Global South and especially in sub-Saharan Africa.

 St. Patrick's Primary School: the school is learning about global citizenship and bringing Malawi into their curriculum.

Glasgow Maryhill and Springburn

Local MSP:

Bob Doris MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Caldercuilt Primary School, Kelvindale Primary School, Cleveden Secondary School and Springburn Academy: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Kelvindale Primary School and Springburn Academy both have active school links with Namwiyo Primary School and Chichiri Day Secondary School respectively. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Mary's Meals: their vision is that all those who have more than they need share with those who lack even the most basic things, and that every needy child receives one daily meal in their place of education. Their main area of work is the Mary's Meals campaign to set up school feeding projects in communities where poverty prevents children from gaining an education. Companion projects to Mary's Meals are: the Backpack Project, residential care for orphaned, abandoned or vulnerable children and agricultural projects. They also respond to humanitarian crises with emergency aid. They work in Malawi, Liberia, Uganda, Kenya, Sudan, Zambia, Haiti, Ukraine, Albania, Romania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, India, Philippines, Burma & Thailand. They work with local communities to establish Mary's Meals school feeding projects and are currently providing over 320,000 children in Malawi with a daily meal in school.

 Willings Botha: Willings is a Malawian researcher at the University of Glasgow in Health Economics (discrete choice experiments). He is interested in any health development related activities in Malawi.

 Angela Botha: a Registered Nurse who is interested in contributing to health-related issues in Malawi.

Glasgow Pollok

Local MSP:

Humza Yousaf MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Rosshall Academy and St Marnock's Primary: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Xchange Scotland: a Scottish youth-led charity developed by returned Scottish volunteers committed to making positive change in society. They support sustainable youth volunteering placements in Malawi, including with Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement (AYISE). Monica Dzonzi from AYISE was the Unicef Youth Ambassador that started the Glasgow 2014 Queens Baton Relay from Buckingham Palace, she recently returned to Scotland for International Women’s Day to meet with the First Minister.

Glasgow Provan

Local MSP:

Ivan McKee MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Croftcroighn Primary ASN, Haghill Park Primary School, Smithycroft Secondary School, St Andrews RC Secondary and Wallacewell Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to- school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Wallacewell Primary has an active link with Bondo Primary School in Mulanje, Malawi. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Nida Ilahi: Nida is a dentist and medical student with interests in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and general surgery. He plans on organising his senior medical elective in Malawi.

Glasgow Shettleston

Local MSP:

John Mason MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bannerman High School, Carmyle Primary School, Eastbank Academy, Quarry Brae Primary, St Bridget's Primary, St Joachim's Primary School and Swinton Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Bannerman High School in particular has an active school link with Masalani Community Secondary School and engages in school visits, often hosting visitors from Malawi. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Glasgow Southside

Local MSP:

Nicola Sturgeon MSP

Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Craigholme School, Hampden School (ASN), Holyrood Secondary and Hutcheson’s School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Holyrood Secondary in particular has an active school link with Stella Maris Girls Secondary School Zingwangwa and engages with annual school visits. These links and others are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Sense Scotland: Sense Scotland works with children and adults who have communication support needs because of deaf blindness, sensory impairment, learning or physical disabilities. Working closely with people, often on a one-to-one basis, they aim to find out what their aspirations are and how they can support them to live their lives. They aim to minimise the impact of complex disability on individuals, families and carers through the provision of services including: family advisory services, community living support, day support services for children and adults, residential short breaks, respite services for adults and for children and outdoor education work.

 Lesley Atkins: Lesley is the Quality Improvement Officer, International Education for Education and Social Work Services, Glasgow City Council. Her remit is to develop international education as an integral part of the curriculum in educational establishments. Glasgow currently has links with 46 countries throughout the world, 17 of which are Commonwealth countries. Several of the schools in Glasgow currently have active partnerships with Malawi and she assists them in developing these links.

 Malawi Consulate

Rutherglen

Local MSP:

Clare Haughey MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dr John Lwanda - a Malawian medical practitioner and researcher with medical, social, historical, cultural and political interests in Malawi. He runs a book publishing company which specialises in books about Malawi. His company Pamtondo publishes Malawian work.

Highlands and Islands

Donald Cameron MSP John Finnie MSP Rhoda Grant MSP Edward Mountain MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Green Party Scottish Labour Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Douglas Ross MSP David Stewart MSP Maree Todd MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Scottish National Party 39 and Unionist Party

Argyll and Bute

Local MSP:

Michael Russell MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dalmally Primary School, Dunoon Grammar School, Iona Primary School, Oban High School, Rothesay Academy and Strone Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Imani Enterprise (part of Imani Development): Imani Development is an economic and development consultancy firm that facilitates economic growth and poverty reduction in the developing world.

 Mid Argyll Malawi Twinning Group: their members are drawn from churches in the Mid Argyll area. They are twinned with the Kasamba Congregation of the Synod of Livingstonia, in Lilongwe. The churches involved in the Twinning are: Ardrishaig, South Knapdale, Lochgilphead, Cumlodden, Lochfyneside and Lochgair, Glenaray and Inveraray, Glassary, Kilmartin and Ford and North Knapdale.

 Netherlorn Churches: this group of five Argyll churches is made up of Craignish (Ardfern), Kilbrandon (Isle of Seil), Kilchattan (Isle of Luing), Kilmelford and Kilninver. They are partnered with Bemvu, Ntcheu CCAP (Church of Central Africa Presbyterian), in Blantyre. The partnership will bring two Malawi visitors to the Isle of Luing later in 2016. The parish minister, Kenneth Ross, taught at the University of Malawi from 1988-1998.

 Project Trust: Project Trust offers year out opportunities for school leavers within the EU. Volunteers are carefully selected and placed in one of 25 countries worldwide, mainly in the developing world.

 Teamwork Trust: provides help to the poor and needy by three main means: i) Humanitarian - e.g. re-roofing, repairing and building new houses; providing food, clothing, soap and blankets; repairing bore holes and building shallow wells. ii) Education - paying fees for secondary pupils; building nurseries; providing teaching aids and resourses for schools and nurseries. iii) Christian - preaching/teaching from the Bible, providing bibles, supporting Pastors and their families.

Caithness, Sutherland and Ross

Local MSP:

Gail Ross MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dornoch Academy, Gairloch High School and Tain Royal Academy: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Gairloch High School and Tain Royal Academy have active links with Mlozi School and Ekwendeni Secondary School respectively. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Marie-Ann Hutchison: Marie-Ann has been involved with the provision and delivery of school resources (from schools in the Highlands) and toolkits (from Tools for Self-Reliance) to the Samaritan Trust, Blantyre, Malawi and to Ekwendeni in Northern Malawi.

 Ross Presbytery: the presbytery is linked with Ekwendeni Hospital. Four members of hospital staff visited Ross in June 2016 to meet members of the Presbytery and develop the partnership. Churches involved in the twinning include Kilmuir and Logie Easter (partnered with Ngazi CCAP) and Dingwall Caste Street Church (partnered with Balaka CCAP).

 The Wickerman Festival: the partnership between The Wickerman Festival and Lake of Stars festival in Malawi was formed in 2010 with the intention of building links between the two festivals. The aim for the future is to bring artists from Malawi to the Wickerman Festival and vice versa. In addition they would like to be able to provide support on the ground in the form of festival staff and stewards who currently work with the Wickerman by sending them to Lake of Stars each October. In return, Lake of Stars would like to also send some of their Malawi based staff to Scotland to assist on the build and running of the Wickerman when the festival is operational each July.

Na h-Eileanan an Iar

Local MSP:

Alasdair Allan MSP

Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Scotland Lights up Malawi: the Keep Scotland Beautiful-led education programme uses the story of SolarAid’s work in Malawi to highlight important issues around energy, poverty, climate change, solar light, global citizenship and sustainability. Through the programme, Keep Scotland Beautiful is working with schools from across Scotland, including in the Western Isles, to encourage children and young people to increase their understanding of these issues and to develop communication and citizenship skills.

 Lorna Hobson: Lorna taught with VSO at Soche Hill DSS and Chilumba DSS between 1967 and 1969. Having kept in touch with the families of ex-pupils for more than 40 years, she returned with her husband for a visit in May 2012 and again in September 2014, and friendships with a number of Malawian families were strengthened and still continue. They both love the country and its people and wish they could do more to further their wellbeing.

 Mary McElligot: Mary visited Malawi a number of times as the NHS Western Isles’ Professional Practice Development Manager, supporting the Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics (ALSO) course. The course teaches a team of multi-professionals best practice in handling emergencies that may arise in maternity care. The same training is delivered in Malawi and the Western Isles. Mary has also helped support school linking between the Western Isles and Malawi.

Inverness and Nairn

Local MSP:

Fergus Ewing MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Crown Primary School, Culloden Academy, Grantown Grammar, Inverness Royal Academy and Lochardil Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Little Bird Coffee House: a newly formed coffee house based in the highland capital, Inverness. They are keen to roast and serve Mzuzu Coffee and would love to build on the strong link between Scotland and Malawi's Mzuzu coffee. In time they'd like to build a relationship with the farmers of the region and explore the possibility of offering their staff the chance to go out to Malawi to share learning.

 Rev Peter Howson: Rev Howson is a minister in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. His parents lived in Malawi in the 1960s and he was a VSO teacher at Karonga. He returned to lecture to the Malawi Army whilst serving as a Chaplain in the British Army. His son and daughter in law spent a year as doctors at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre. He was last in Malawi for the 50th anniversary celebrations of Chaminade Secondary School at Karonga. He wrote 'A Short History of Karonga' for the Malawi Government.

Moray

Local MSP:

Richard Lochhead MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dyke Primary School and Forres Academy: both have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland. The schools are partnered with Phembe Primary School and Luchenza Community Day Secondary School respectively.

Orkney Islands

Local MSP:

Liam McArthur MSP Scottish Liberal Democrats

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Orkney Presbytery - Orkney Malawi Partnership: Orkney Presbytery has been partnered with Thyolo Highlands Presbytery of CCAP (Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) since 2008. The partnership works at Presbytery level and also between local congregations who are twinned in congregational groupings. The presbytery is keen to develop more school partnerships between Orkney and Malawi. The Partnership has also had a welcome supplementary focus on Fairtrade issues which has evolved from the economic domination of the tea industry in the Thyolo area.

 Sanday Community School and Westray Junior High School: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. Sanday Community School is linked with Minga Community Day Secondary School in the Kabudula region of Malawi and is currently arranging visits. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Shetland Islands

Local MSP:

Tavish Scott MSP Scottish Liberal Democrats

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Malawi-Shetland Link: a group of local volunteers visited Malawi in June 2014 where they spent a month helping in pre-school orphanages, care groups and a community hospital. They also delivered much needed medical kit, which was bought from donations received in Shetland. The Shetland community donated more than £10,000 enabling the group to hand over football tops, pencils and jotters to children and much needed wind-up torches to adults living in the small villages near Monkey Bay.

Group member Mark Wylie said: "One week on after arriving home from volunteering in Africa it's very easy to fall back into normal life with TV, clean water, iPhone, plenty food etc. I keep thinking about everyone we met and in comparison how much happier they are, how much more enthusiastic the kids were, and how much more appreciative the adults were. These people had nothing but poverty and disease yet were much happier with bigger smiles than most of us in the UK. It says a lot and certainly puts everything into perspective!"

The other six volunteers were Nicola Duthie, Magnus Johnson, Jenny Teale, John Thomson, Jenny Wylie and Tracy Webb.

Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch

Local MSP:

Kate Forbes MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 CIFA Trust: The CIFA Trust was established in October 2006 and has since then been supporting the work of two local NGOs in Kenya and Ethiopia. The Trust's main areas of focus there have been supporting education and access to water in remote pastoral areas. Since 2014, following on from personal and professional connections of two of the trustees, the Trust also began exploring ways in which it could support the work of local Malawian NGO Ungweru in Mzimba District. Following a visit to Mzuzu in September 2014, a number of opportunities are currently being explored.

 Community Energy Scotland: Community Energy Scotland has been involved in supporting the Community Energy Sector in Malawi for almost 5 years. They are currently delivering the three year ‘Community Energy Development Programme’ within the country and are actively looking to build on the success of this Programme. The CEDP is one of four strands of the Scottish Government funded Malawi Renewable Energy Acceleration ‘MREAP’ programme.

 Eigg Primary School, Fortrose Academy, Gergask Primary School, Kingussie High School, Mallaig High School, Muck Primary School and Munlochy Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Neil Fisher: Neil formerly worked for 'Action Against Hunger' between November 2002 and December 2005. He is still involved in data analysis.

Lothian

Jeremy Balfour MSP Miles Briggs MSP Kezia Dugdale MSP Neil Findlay MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Scottish Labour and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Gordon Lindhurst MSP Alison Johnstone MSP Andy Wightman MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Green Party Scottish Green Party 48 and Unionist Party

Almond Valley

Local MSP:

Angela Constance MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 District 1020 Rotary International: D1020 covers the South of Scotland and comprises 62 Rotary clubs with a total membership of circa 2000. D1020 Rotary is a voluntary organization committed to the ideal of world peace and understanding.

 Smalls for All: Underwear may seem insignificant when a country has so many problems. But because many women and children in Africa can't afford underwear, they fall victim to disease and attack. And girls who are lucky enough to have a place in school often miss 3 or 4 days a month due to their lack of underwear. Smalls for All donates underwear in many ways - through links with established charities; through hospitals that treat women with conditions like fistula; through IDP camps and children's homes and orphanages. Smalls for All has taken the decision to work more strategically and is planning to focus efforts in Malawi and is seeking like-minded partners where the provision of underwear can make a difference through education and medical projects.

 St. John the Baptist Primary School, St Margaret's Academy and Knightsridge Primary School: St John and St Margaret’s both have an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland. St. Johns the Baptist Primary School is linked with Chimteka II Junior School and St Margaret’s Academy organised two working school trips to Malawi. The trips involved building a classroom for a nursery on the first trip and part of a new secondary school on the second trip. Knightsridge Primary has been working hard to introduce the Sustainable Development Goals into their curriculum.

Edinburgh Central

Local MSP:

Ruth Davidson MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 CBM UK: an International Christian Organisation whose primary purpose is to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities, particularly for people living in the poorest areas of the world. Their colleagues in Malawi work closely with partners and Government to ensure that needs are met without duplication of service provision.

 Challenges Worldwide: Scotland’s largest professional volunteer sending agency. They specialise in collaboration with public and private sector organisations in the UK, designing and managing employee exchange schemes on behalf of their clients.

 Church of Scotland World Mission Council: Their remit includes developing and maintaining mutually enriching relationships with the Church of Scotland’s partner churches overseas, including Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP).

 Cross Party Group on Malawi - Scottish Parliament: the purpose of the group is to develop and enhance links between Scotland and Malawi and to provide a forum for discussion on these matters.

 Dunira Strategy: Dunira’s mission is to deliver sustainable business solutions in tourism that meet the needs of communities across the globe.

 EMMS International: EMMS International is a Christian international healthcare charity. Saving lives through compassionate healthcare in Malawi, India and Nepal. EMMS is celebrating its 175th anniversary this year.

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 First Aid Africa: Provides access to life-saving emergency first aid education in communities where access to pre- hospital medical facilities is unavailable. Specifically in Malawi they have created free teaching resources in line with the recommendations of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) with translations into Chichewa and Chitumbuka.

 Global Concerns Trust: the Trust links schools, organisations and individuals in a supportive and learning relationship with pioneering grassroots projects in rural and urban situations.

 Global Justice Now: a democratic social justice organisation working as part of a global movement to challenge the powerful and create a more just and equal world.

 Haemophilia Scotland: a registered charity based in Scotland for people who have haemophilia, von Willebrands and other bleeding disorders.

 Humanist Society Scotland: are partners of the Malawi Association for Secular Humanism.

 Jubilee Scotland: Jubilee Scotland is a coalition of organisations that work together in Scotland to campaign for the cancellation of unpayable and illegitimate poor-country debt.

 Link Community Development: promotes access to quality education in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa from Scotland. They aim to improve the lives of children and young people by improving access to and the quality of education in rural communities in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, South Africa and Uganda.

 Mondo Loco Foundation: the foundation is encouraging sustainable growth within communities through community gardens, adventure and education in order to promote health, advance learning and fight poverty.

 National Museums Scotland: their collection includes an African collection of around 9,000 objects which includes a small but important collection of Malawian material. They established a partnership with Museums for Malawi in 2012 and developed David Livingstone exhibitions in both Scotland and Malawi.

 Plan Vivo Foundation: The foundation provides certification for community-led land-use projects in developing countries.

 Postcode African Trust: provide financial support to global charities that save lives, improve countries health systems, provide education to communities, help to prevent and relieve poverty and/or make advancement in human rights, conflict resolution or reconciliation while promoting equality and diversity. They support a number of charities working in Malawi.

 Provincial Overseas Committee of Scottish Episcopal Church: they are in partnership with people (Anglicans in the main) in Africa, Asia and South America to support their work in health, education and development.

 Royal College of Midwives: since the early 2000's a number of their members have visited Malawi to provide Advanced Life Support in Obstetrics and Neonatal Advanced Life Support. The RCM in Scotland has provided on- going support to a number of charitable organisations such as MUM's and Smalls for All as well as the Freedom from Fistula Foundation.

 Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh: an independent standard-setting body and professional membership organisation. Their aim is to improve and maintain the quality of patient care.

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 Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: the College is looking to expand its surgical education and training work in Malawi.

 Royal Environmental Health Institute of Scotland: the Institute was incorporated by Royal Charter in 2001 and can trace its roots back to 1875.

 RSE Young Academy of Scotland: provides a platform for leaders to work collaboratively for the benefit of society by informing public policy, supporting Scotland's people and by sharing their research and practical expertise. Through their international link working group, they aim to become more involved with trans-national activities surrounding research, public engagement and policy development. To do so they work with like-minded organisations around the world to develop collaborative, interdisciplinary projects which encompass one or more of their core societal themes (Healthier, Smarter, Enterprising, Sustainable, Equal and International).

 Scotland Lights up Malawi: Scotland Lights up Malawi is a campaign raising funds to support Climate Justice, here in Scotland and Malawi.

 Social Enterprise Academy: this is a social business set up to design and deliver transformational learning and development for people and organisations working for social purpose across Scotland. Building on their initial work in South Africa, they are keen to run programmes in Malawi.

 St George's School for Girls: has a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease: The International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease draws from the best scientific evidence and expertise to advance solutions to public health challenges affecting people living in poverty. The Union works in many African countries including Malawi.

 The National Records of Scotland: National Records of Scotland (NRS) was established on 1 April 2011, following the merger of General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the National Archives of Scotland (NAS).

 The Open University: The Open University has been awarded £400,000 by the Scottish Government to further develop its successful teacher education programme in Malawi.

 The Turing Trust: the trust aims to promote education and training through the use of information technology in Malawi.

 UNICEF: the world's leading organisation for children in over 190 countries.

 The Scottish Bible Society: The Scottish Bible Society (known 1861-2000 as 'The National Bible Society of Scotland') is a founder member of the United Bible Societies, and shares with the Bible Society of Malawi (BSM) the desire to make the bible available to everyone.

 University of Edinburgh: The University of Edinburgh collaborates with the University of Malawi on medical and healthcare projects.

 VSO Scotland: VSO has been working directly with partners and communities in Malawi for over 40 years.

Edinburgh Eastern

Local MSP:

Ash Denham MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 CREATIVenergie: They specialise in small scale community renewable energy training, helping to equip organisations with the technical skills required to run sustainable energy projects and businesses. In particular, they have developed an affordable small scale biogas system and training program that has been successfully trialled in rural Kenya, and they would like to build new partnerships and set up demonstration plants in Malawi, with a view to wider dissemination so that an increased number of people can experience the benefits of biogas. Biogas is a clean renewable source of energy made from organic waste. They envisage that they could work with organisations to build capacity, which could lead to new micro-enterprise opportunities in sustainable energy.

 Gilmerton Primary School, Gracemount High School and Newcraighall Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Edinburgh Northern and Leith

Local MSP:

Ben Macpherson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Leith Academy (partnered with St. Joseph's Demonstration Primary School in the Dedza region), Lorne Primary School, Pilrig Park Secondary, Taobh na Pàirce and Trinity Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Opportunity International: empower people in developing countries with microfinance - small loans, savings, micro insurance - and training so that they can unlock their own potential and better provide for themselves and their families. A recognised, effective solution to global poverty, microfinance and business training empowers poor people to work their own way out of poverty. Their approach promotes dignity and self-sufficiency, not dependence on hand outs.

 Scottish Malawi Foundation: the two main objectives of The Scottish Malawi Foundation are: i) to promote the development of endowment-led Community Foundations in Malawi, ii) to provide an efficient and economic conduit for the Scottish community to support community led projects in Malawi.

 St Andrew’s Children's Society: a voluntary adoption and foster care agency in existence for over 90 years. They were interested in helping the people of Malawi care for the many orphaned children in the country by helping care givers develop skills in their work with these children. They have provided training to groups of caregivers particularly focusing on therapeutic play techniques. They hope to collect and send out play materials to be distributed to Community Based Childcare Centres.

Edinburgh Pentlands

Local MSP:

Gordon MacDonald MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 APSTAR: APSTAR is a charitable organisation which was formed in 2004 after seeing so much suffering amongst the elderly and other vulnerable members of the community in Mzimba District. Extreme poverty, illness, hunger and malnutrition were prevalent in this section of the community. APSTAR took up the challenge to help ease this suffering because they believe that every human being has the right to live a decent life with dignity. They strive to alleviate suffering of hunger, diseases and lack of decent living conditions by providing help such as food, clothing, transporting the elderly to medical facilities, building the elderly houses and providing boreholes.

 Broomhouse Primary School (partnered with Mzimba L.E.A. School, Mzimba region); Currie Primary School; Dean Park Primary School (partnered with Gwengwe Primary School, Dedza region); Juniper Green Primary School, Ratho Primary School and Stenhouse Primary School (partnered with Embangweni FP School, Mzimba region): all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Edinburgh College: Edinburgh College has been formed as a result of the merger between Edinburgh’s Telford College, Jewel & Esk College and Stevenson College Edinburgh. In the past Stevenson College, now part of Edinburgh College, has worked with the SMP to develop international education and global citizenship within the college and the wider community, whilst offering students and staff a practical dimension to their study of global issues.

 Edinburgh Holy Trinity: (partnered with Enyezeni Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) has an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

Edinburgh Southern

Local MSP:

Daniel Johnson MSP Scottish Labour

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bruntsfield Primary School (partnered with Namalimwe Primary School); Craiglockhart Primary School; George Watsons College (partnered with St Andrews Secondary (and a local nursery), Blantyre region) and South Morningside Primary: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources.

 Chance for Change: an organisation devoted to enhancing the development of young people by inspiring and motivating them to take responsibility for their future direction.

 Edinburgh Napier University: working on a Scottish Government project, Respectful Midwifery Care in Rural Malawi, to develop, implement and evaluate respectful care using a human rights approach to maternity care.

 LUV (Leprosy@Utale Village): focuses on leprosy in Malawi, aiming to improve the living conditions of the patients and to raise awareness of the disease, amongst other goals.

 ScotMal Oral Health Aid (ScoHA): provides oral health aid to rural Malawi through provision of basic oral procedures in mobile vans and offers training to rural health workers.

 The Scotland Malawi Mental Health Education Project: provides sustainable support for undergraduate and postgraduate psychiatric teaching and training in Malawi.

 The Soko Fund: The Soko Fund provides financial support in the form of scholarships to students in higher education at the University of Malawi and the University of Livingstonia, in Northern Malawi.  500 Miles: promotes the development and delivery of prosthetic and orthotic services in Malawi and Zambia.

Edinburgh Western

Local MSP:

Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP Scottish Liberal Democrats

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Carricknowe Primary School (partnered with Lauderdale Primary School, Mulanje region); Corstorphine Primary School (partnered with Viyele Primary School, Mzuzu region), East Craigs Primary School, Forrester High School and Fox Covert Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth: the RASC is an NGO representing agriculture across the Commonwealth. It comprises a confederation of over 40 leading national and regional agricultural show societies working in 20 Commonwealth countries. It promotes the development of show societies and best practice farming, improving incomes and production of food in Commonwealth countries. RASC encourages the interchange and development of sustainable agriculture, forestry and fishing and the rural environment throughout the Commonwealth.

 RSPB Scotland: RSPB Scotland is part of the RSPB, which works across the UK for the conservation of birds and wildlife, and for the sustainable management of the economy. They are the UK partner of Birdlife International, a global partnership. The Malawian partner of Birdlife International is the Wildlife and Environment Society of Malawi.

 RZSS Edinburgh Zoo: Edinburgh Zoo is one of Europe's leading centres of conservation, education and research. They work collectively with many other zoos and conservation agencies in the UK, Europe and around the world in co-ordinated conservation programmes, to help ensure the survival of many threatened animal species. They support various conservation projects in the wild through funding and expertise.

Linlithgow

Local MSP:

Fiona Hyslop MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 St Kentigern's Academy (partnered with Chiradzulu Primary, Chiradzulu region); Whitburn Academy (partnered with Mzuzu Government Secondary School, Mzuzu region) and Winchburgh Primary School (partnered with Chikwawa primary school, Chikwawa region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Midlothian North and Musselburgh

Local MSP:

Colin Beattie MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 GALVmed: millions of people rely on livestock to pay for food, education and healthcare. The loss of animals through disease devastates the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world. A not for profit public private partnership, GALVmed is making livestock vaccines, medicines and diagnostics available, affordable and accessible to livestock keepers living in poverty. Everything GALVmed achieves is done with and through partners. In Malawi, GALVmed is working to help empower the African Union Centre for Ticks and Tick-Borne Diseases (AU-CTTBD) in Lilongwe to produce a vaccine against East Coast fever, a disease which kills over 1.1 million cattle every year in sub-Saharan Africa.

 Institute for Global Health & Development: research at IGHD is influencing national and international policy and making significant differences to the health and development of vulnerable and marginalized populations globally.

 McConnell International Foundation: the foundation establishes partnerships to build capacity in post-conflict and developing countries including in Malawi.

 St David's Primary School: has a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Mid Scotland and Fife

Murdo Fraser MSP Dean Lockhart MSP Alex Rowley MSP Claire Baker MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Party Scottish Labour Party and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Mark Ruskell MSP Liz Smith MSP Alexander Stewart MSP Scottish Green Party Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative 61 and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Clackmannanshire and Dunblane

Local MSP:

Keith Brown MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Anne Dawson: Anne taught from December 1976 to December 1999 in Northern Malawi in schools governed by Church of Central Africa Presbyterian Synod of Livingstonia.

 Developing World Health: established to address the need for new, safe and effective treatments for malaria, neglected tropical diseases such as trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness) and related serious infectious diseases. The organisation is building on the historic contribution and influence that Scottish scientists and physicians such as Dr David Livingstone and Sir Patrick Manson have had in Tropical Medicine.

 Dunblane High School (partnered with Chambe Secondary School); Alva Academy (partnered with Karonga Girls Secondary School); Alloa Academy; Dunbarney Primary School; Newton Primary School; St Mary Episcopal Primary School and Sunnyside Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Dunblane Likhubula Link: aims to advance the education of the inhabitants of Dunblane, Scotland and Likhubula, Malawi, and cultivate a relationship between the two communities. They initiate and fund schemes of an infrastructural or sustainable development nature for the community aimed at relieving poverty and deprivation and / or improving the education, health and wellbeing of the inhabitants of Malawi.

 Mamie Martin Fund: established in 1993 to support the education of girls in the secondary schools of the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Synod of Livingstonia in Northern Malawi. The girls enrolled in the schools are from all religious backgrounds. In 2016 the Scotland Malawi Partnership launched ‘Scotland Street Coffee’ with award-winning Edinburgh author Alexander McCall Smith – all proceeds from this Malawian coffee are donated to the Mamie Martin Fund.

Cowdenbeath

Local MSP:

Annabelle Ewing MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Beath High School (partnered with Mendulo School, Luchenza region); Dalgety Bay Primary School (partnered with a school in the Kaluhoro region); Donibristle Primary School (partnered with Engcongolweni Primary School, Mzimba region) and Lochgelly High School (partnered with Mganja Full Primary School): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Child Support Project: works towards the relief of poverty, advancement of education and improvement of social welfare of orphans and vulnerable children in rural and urban areas.

 Dalgety Bay Friends of Engcongolweni: the object of the Dalgety Bay Friends is to help prevent and relieve poverty in Northern Malawi, particularly in the Engocongolweni area. They target health and education sectors; support community projects; develop and foster links between the communities and organisations of Dalgety Bay and Encongolweni and encourage learning about each other's countries, heritage and cultures.

 Dalgety Parish Church: since 2007, Dalgety Parish Church has been twinned with Engcongolweni Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) in rural Northern Malawi. In September 2016 partners from Engcongolweni will be visiting Dalgety Bay to continue the well-developed friendship. Over the years, the partnership has worked together on the construction of a church building in Engcongolweni and provision of a clean water supply.

 Nan Arnott: Nan supports selected schools in the North of Malawi by fundraising for building improvements. This ensures that the buildings are fit for purpose and improves the quality of teaching and learning.

 Robin Arnott: Robin was chief executive of EMMS International. He has an interest in health, education and community development in Engconglweni. His church (Dalgety Parish Church) is twinned with Engcongolweni CCAP and he convenes its Engcongolweni Support Group. He is also secretary of the Dalgety Bay Friends of Engcongolweni.

Dunfermline

Local MSP:

Shirley-Anne Somerville MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Cameron Tours of Scotland: a family run business specialising in tailor-made tours of Scotland for individual groups. Having visited Malawi in 2008 to meet the child they sponsor through World Vision, they decided to raise funds to build a girls' hostel at the secondary school in Kayezi.

 Inglis Veterinary Centres Ltd: a company which provides veterinary care throughout the Fife area, they also train veterinary students in a unique partnership with the University of Edinburgh. Their interest in Malawi was stimulated by animal welfare concerns. They have a link with the Lilongwe Society for the Protection and Care of Animals. Four members of staff visited in May 2012 and helped to set up a veterinary practice there. They are also involved in the evolution of a Veterinary College in Malawi, and are hoping to be involved in the training of veterinary students.

 Malawi Initiative for National Development (MIND): MIND's main mission is to formalize and coordinate volunteering efforts of UK-based Diaspora Malawians and use such initiatives to support the Malawi Government's socio-economic development efforts aligning with the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS).

Kirkcaldy

Local MSP:

David Torrance MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Balwearie High School (partnered with Luwinga Secondary School, Mzuzu region); Burntisland Primary (partnered with Kamuzu Barracks Primary, Lilongwe region) and Kirkcaldy High School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 St. Kenneth's Malawi Partnership: in 2006 St Kenneth's began a partnership with a Malawian minister, Rev Levi Nyondo, to assist projects in his local area. One of the larger projects involved flooring and roofing a church building and community meeting place in Lusangazi, a village several miles from Mzuzu. At that time Lusangazi was one of around 12 prayer houses in outlying areas served by St Andrews Mzuzu. The creation of this new building led to Lusangazi (with about six of the small prayer houses) becoming a new congregation in its own right. After a visit in 2007, it was decided that St Kenneth's would enter a partnership with the new Lusangazi congregation and focus their attention there.

Mid Fife and Glenrothes

Local MSP:

Jenny Gilruth MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Carleton Primary School (partnered with Namaka primary school, Chiradzulu region); Glenrothes High School (partnered with a school in Blantyre region); St Agatha's RC Primary School (partnered with a school in the Blantyre region) and Star Primary School (partnered with a school in the Blantyre region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Fife Council

 St Columba’s Parish Church: have a partnership with the Chuluchosema CCAP Church near Zomba and are working together to extend this partnership into the wider communities both in Glenrothes and Chuluchosema.

North East Fife

Local MSP:

Willie Rennie MSP

Scottish Liberal Democrats

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Anstruther Primary School (partnered with Chigamula CCAP, Blantyre region); Auchtermuchty Primary School (partnered with Chikhwawa RC School, Chikwawa region); Dunblane High School (partnered with Chambe Secondary, Likhubula region); Dunbog Primary School (partnered with Doroba Primary school, Mzuzu region); Elie Primary School (partnered with Henry Henderson Primary School, Blantyre region); Kilmaron Special School; Springfield Primary School and Strathmiglo Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Auchtermuchty-Namadzi Church Partnership: the Partnership has been active since 2009, which has enabled 5 visits to take place involving 10 people (3 visits to Scotland and 2 visits to Malawi). The aim is the sharing of their faith in a different environment by 'Walking, Working and Worshipping' together.

 Loveness JZ Charity Trust Malawi: their aims are to relieve suffering of the rural poor in the 6-8 villages including Chingamba area, 20km south east of Blantyre, by initializing a local network of people to distribute clothing to the rural poor affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

 Makokola Appeal: Wesley Gold started an appeal to provide relief to Makokola Village, Mangochi, Malawi after the recent floods (January 2015). She is working with a local NGO called Community Initiative for Self-Reliance, CISER. Her long term goal is to continue to provide support to the people of Makokola Village and beyond through CISER by focusing on sustainable agriculture and aquaculture methods. She was brought up in Malawi and periodically returns to holiday at the lake in the vicinity of Makokola Village.

 University of St Andrews: the School of Medicine at St Andrews has been involved in helping the College of Medicine in Blantyre, Malawi for several years in learning and teaching matters. They are expanding their work there to focus on making a difference on the ground to improve healthcare delivery and outcomes. 67

Perthshire North

Local MSP:

John Swinney MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Blairgowrie High School (partnered with Geisha Primary School); Invergowrie Primary School; Kinnoull Primary; Kirkmichael Primary School (partnered with Mulunje LEA Primary School and Providence Secondary School); Lawmuir Primary School (partnered with Malambalala Primary School, Blantyre region); Newhill Primary School (partnered with Dowa 1 Full Primary School, Dowa region) and Perth Grammar School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Perth and Kinross Council

 The James Hutton Institute: formed in 2011 from a merger between the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute in Aberdeen and the Scottish Crop Research Institute based in Invergowrie near Dundee. The Institute, one of the Scottish Government's main research providers, encompasses a distinctive range of integrated, world-class strengths in land, crop, water, environmental and socio-economic science. It undertakes research for customers including the Scottish and UK Governments, the EU and other organisations worldwide.

Perthshire South and Kinross-shire

Local MSP:

Roseanna Cunningham MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Letham Primary School (partnered with Makande model primary school, Chikwawa region); Oakbank Primary School; Perth College; Portmoak Primary School (partnered with a school in the Blantyre region); Strathallan School and The Community School of Auchterarder (partnered with Linthipe Secondary School, Dedza region): all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Orwell and Portmoak Parish Church: (partnered with Mombwe Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) has an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries

 Fiona Johnson-Chalamanda: Fiona grew up in Zomba and Nottingham, taught English at Zomba Catholic Secondary School, obtained a PhD in Malawian and South African literature from Stirling University, worked for NIDOS and is now a musician fusing Scottish and Malawian music.

 Morrison's Academy: has a school link with Malawi (Nansato Primary) which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to- school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Stirling

Local MSP:

Bruce Crawford MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bannockburn High School (partnered with Naming'azi Primary School, Zomba region); Kincardine in Menteith Primary School (partnered with Kapalamula Full Primary, Balaka region) and St Ninian's Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Dulas Limited: Dulas Ltd is one of the leading UK suppliers of high quality solar power solutions to some of the world's most remote locations. Established in 1982, their products have been helping to fuel essential services such as healthcare, water supply and education for developing communities living in off-grid or remote areas around the world. They are proud to have World Health Organization Performance Quality and Safety accreditation for all their solar powered vaccine refrigerator systems.

 Killearn Malawi Group: the Killearn Malawi Group is a small fundraising charity with 9 trustees which aims to promote education and health in Malawi. Their fundraising is on-going through jumble sales, events and donations. Their projects are many and varied.

 Mother and Child Rights (macRights): they believe that if any of the important factors for development are absent in a village or community and/or any of the strategy for development does not involve the citizens, the development is likely to fail. They aim to ensure that children and women acquire empowerment through education for respect in the classrooms and play grounds, and improved gender respect through age appropriate sexual, reproductive health and rights education.

 Stirling Council

 The Chesney Trust: was established to advance the education of girls in Malawi by building a secondary boarding school, including a department for girls with hearing impairment and by the funding of bursaries. 70

North East Scotland

Peter Chapman MSP Bill Bowman MSP Liam Kerr MSP Lewis Macdonald MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour and Unionist Party and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Jenny Marra MSP Mike Rumbles MSP Ross Thomson MSP 71 Scottish Labour Scottish Liberal Scottish Conservative Democrats and Unionist Party

Aberdeen Central

Local MSP:

Kevin Stewart MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 ARCHIE Global Surgery: is part of the ARCHIE Charity, transforming children's healthcare. Their Global Surgery Programme equips high quality children's operating theatres. They will open their first unit in Blantyre in 2017.

 Ferryhill School: has a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 Immpact (Initiative for Maternal Mortality Programme Assessment): has a global reputation for expertise in managing maternal and newborn health implementation research in low and middle income countries.

 Midstocket Church (partnered with Nkolokosa Church of Central Africa Presbyterian); St Mark’s Church (partnered with Mpachika CCAP); St Stephen’s Church (partnered with Naotcha CCAP); St Mary’s Church of Scotland (partnered with Mpemba CCAP); South Holburn Church (partnered with Kachere CCAP); Aberdeen Kirk of St Nicholas (partnered with Chigamula CCAP); Ferryhill Church (partnered with Chigodi CCAP); Rubislaw Church (partnered with Limbe CCAP) and Holburn West Church (partnered with St Columba CCAP): all have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

 The Dòchas Education Trust: the Trust seeks to bring improvement to the Nsanje District of Malawi through education and training. They offer an in-service training programme which aims to raise the qualification level of 200 teachers. The Trust also runs a Community Education Project with a focus on public health, child development and literacy, as well as delivering bible education.

 University of Aberdeen: The Centre for Sustainable International Development (CSID) was created to facilitate work on sustainable international development across the University. It recognizes that long-term research must be coordinated across all areas of sustainable development to maximise impact.

Aberdeen Donside

Local MSP:

Mark McDonald MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Presbytery of Aberdeen: in November 2005, Blantyre City Presbytery and Aberdeen Presbytery were set up in partnership. Under this umbrella there are 18 twinned congregations.

 St Columba’s Church: (partnered with South Lunzu Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) has an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

 The Kerusso Trust: a Christian charity that partners with churches and organisations in Malawi to provide Bible training for church leaders, and to support Christian education through development of a Christian secondary school. The Kerusso Trust promotes church leadership and ministry training, discipleship, school education and compassion in poor rural areas of Malawi through partnerships with local organisations and individuals.

Aberdeen South and North Kincardine

Local MSP:

Maureen Watt MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Cults Parish Church (partnered with Mlombwa Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) and Peterculter Parish Church (partnered with St Paul’s CCAP): both have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

 International School of Aberdeen (partnered with Bishop MacKenzie International School, Lilongwe region) and Tullos Primary: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 The Orskov Foundation: promotes sustainable development for the poorest rural communities in the world. They aim to achieve this through the integration of agricultural education with community projects.

Aberdeenshire East

Local MSP:

Gillian Martin MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Monquhitter Primary School (partnered with a school in Dedza Region) and Strathburn Primary: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 St Kane’s Church: (partnered with M’buka Church of Central Africa Presbyterian) has an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries. Several visits have taken place from and to Malawi, with one member of St Kane’s congregation spending two years living with their partners in Malawi.

Aberdeenshire West

Local MSP:

Alexander Burnett MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 FROM (Famine Relief for Orphans in Malawi): FROM was setup in 2005 and became a registered charity in March 2007. It was originally set up to provide food for feeding stations but has also provided funds to build 2 health clinics, classrooms, feeding stations, boreholes and sent 7 containers of medical supplies.

 Towie Primary School (partnered with Lisale School, Nkhata Bay region); Alford Primary School and Logie Coldstone Primary School: all have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Angus North and Mearns

Local MSP:

Mairi Evans MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Alan and Edith Fraser: their interest stems from a study tour to Malawi with Tearfund in 2007 when they saw the work being done on HIV/AIDS. Since then they have had a real commitment to the people there and to development work, particularly in the field of education. Their church has formed a partnership with a congregation in Ekwendi through Dalgety Parish Church, the lead partner, and they are involved with development work and exchange visits.

 Arbuthnott, Bervie and Kinneff Church: the church raised funds to refurbish the baby unit at Embengweni Hospital. They were able to provide baby baskets, heaters and incubators.

 Tarfside Primary School: has a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Angus South

Local MSP:

Graeme Dey MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 The Dalitso Project (formerly St Andrews Church): in 2006 St Andrews Church Youth Group established a link with Aquaid Lifeline Fund, a charity looking after around 3000 orphans in Malawi, providing food, clothing, accommodation, foster parenting, health care and education. With the youth group having made several trips to Malawi to support the work of Aquaid Lifeline, the church as a whole and many in the surrounding community have adopted this work as the main focus of their overseas aid.

Banffshire and Buchan Coast

Local MSP:

Stewart Stevenson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Buckie Baptist Church: the church has a number of links with Malawi including with J-Life. In 2015 they invited Dr Jonathan Groves, mission director of the Kerusso Trust, and Rev Connex Ijalasi, from their Malawian partner J-Life, to talk about the work they are doing in Malawi.

Dundee City East

Local MSP:

Shona Robison MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Colin Martin: Colin worked in Organizational Development at St John's College of Nursing in Mzuzu for 18 months (through Voluntary Service Overseas) and continues to support them in the areas of strategic planning, proposal writing and external relationships. St John's is one of the Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) training institutions which train the majority of nurses in Malawi.

Dundee City West

Local MSP:

Joe FitzPatrick MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dundee University Medical School: the school works with the University of Malawi, College of Medicine, and Kamuzu Central Hospital, Lilongwe.

 Livingstonia-Blantyre-Zambia Fellowship: founded in 1949, the Livingstonia-Blantyre Fellowship is centred around people who have worked with churches in Malawi and Northern Zambia.

 NHS Tayside Emergency Medicine Service: Emergency Medicine Service of NHS Tayside, clinically manage the Emergency Departments in Dundee and Perth. They are developing an institutional link between themselves and the Emergency and Trauma Centre being built at The Queen Elizabeth Central Teaching Hospital (QECTH) in Blantyre, Malawi. They aim to support and train the staff of this new unit in modern emergency medicine skills and knowledge, ensuring a smooth transition to Malawian self-administration and management.

 Al Maktoum College of Higher Education: the Al-Maktoum Institute is a research-led institution of higher education which offers postgraduate programmes of study about Islam and Muslims. The Al-Maktoum Institute has signed a memorandum of understanding with Chancellor College, University of Malawi.

 Scotland Malawi Anaesthesia: they primarily deliver courses on anaesthesia for obstetrics and paediatrics as well as management of emergencies and trauma in both groups.

 Smileawi: a charity set-up by two dentists from Dunoon, to help improve dental services in Northern Malawi.

 St Ninian's RC Primary School: has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens.

 Twinning of Scottish and Malawian Clinics Project: the project was set up to help narrow the gap in access to resources between healthcare professionals in the developing and the developed world.

South Scotland

Claudia Beamish MSP Rachael Hamilton MSP Emma Harper MSP Joan McAlpine MSP Scottish Labour Scottish Conservative Scottish National Scottish National and Unionist Party Party Party

Colin Smyth MSP Paul Wheelhouse MSP Brian Whittle MSP Scottish Labour Scottish National Party Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party 82

Ayr

Local MSP:

John Scott MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Ayr Presbytery Malawi Initiative: in 2004, Ayr Presbytery partnered with Bandawe and Limphasa Presbyteries in rural Northern Malawi. Individual churches in these regions have formed partnerships and many visits have taken place between the two countries. The churches in Ayr support on-going projects focusing on health, specifically assistance with HIV/AIDS, orphan care centres, nurseries and education. Participating churches include: Alloway, Auld Kirk of Ayr, St Andrews, Kingcase, Monkton & Prestwick North, St Nicholas, Portland, and St Meddan’s.

 Celsius Global Solutions: provides simple sustainable products to provide clean water at point of use. Their latest product, the Jompy, allows you to boil water at the same time as cooking, drastically reducing fuel consumption and time spent over the fire. They have been working in Uganda and Kenya and are now looking to extend their work in areas of Malawi and utilise their new model of a rental scheme to assist communities to have access to clean water for drinking, washing and cleaning. Their products reduce carbon emissions, reduce health problems and save people money and time.

 Marr College, Prestwick Academy, Alloway Primary and Doonfoot Primary (partnered with Kavyeyo School, Mzimba region and Bandawe School): have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to- school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 South Ayrshire Council

Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley

Local MSP:

Jeane Freeman MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Ballantrae Parish Church (partnered with Lwanbaza, Central Africa Presbyterian), Dundonald Parish Church and New Cumnock Parish Church (both partnered with Bandawe and Limphasa Presbyteries): have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

 Cumnock Academy: (partnered with Eastern Produce Tea Estate, Thyolo region) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This school link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Clydesdale

Local MSP:

Aileen Campbell MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Carstairs Primary School (partnered with Chikala Primary School, Zomba region); Libberton Primary School (partnered with Nsondole Primary School, Zomba region); Strathaven Academy (partnered with Maveya Full Primary School, Mulanje region) and Wiston Primary School (partnered with St Paul's Primary School, Zomba region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Dumfriesshire

Local MSP:

Oliver Mundell MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Lockerbie Academy: (partnered with Thawale II Primary School, Mulanje region) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Scotland's Rural College (SRUC): SRUC is an innovative, knowledge-based organisation supporting the development of land-based communities and industries.

 The John & Mary Elliot Memorial Trust: the Trust has supported Mary's Meals since 2007 and now contributes £12,500 per annum to support Mponda School and Ndirande Under 6 Centre. Two of the Trustees have visited these schools in Malawi in 2009 and 2013 (taking their 2 elder granddaughters with the on the latter trip). Since then the local school (which their granddaughters attend) has had a Mponda Day to give the Langholm pupils an insight into schooling in Malawi and they are trying to establish an online link with Mponda School.

East Lothian

Local MSP:

Iain Gray MSP Scottish Labour

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 East Lothian Council

 Gullane Primary School: (partnered with Chimkombe Primary school) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to- school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Longniddry Church: (partnered with Ekwaliweni) has an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries. The church is currently fundraising to support a Christian Aid project in Malawi, focused on improving mother and child health care delivery.

 Professor Roger Leakey: the International Tree Foundation (ITF) encourages environmental rehabilitation, poverty alleviation and improved food and nutritional security through tree planting and agroforestry as explained in his book 'Living with the Trees of Life - Towards the Transformation of Tropical Agriculture'. ITF has a project with Temwa at Nkhata Bay, which focuses on community-led decision making.

Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire

Local MSP:

John Lamont MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Ednam Primary School: (partnered with Chisambe Primary School) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to- school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This school link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Galloway and West Dumfries

Local MSP:

Finlay Carson MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dalbeattie High School (partnered with Katewe Primary School, Dedza region) and Kirkcowan Primary School (partnered with Kanchito Primary School, Dedza region): both have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Janice Jamieson Memorial Foundation: a not for profit organisation set up in memory of Janice Jamieson who was a renowned Head Teacher in the Dumfries & Galloway region. The foundation seeks to work in Malawi with families, schools and communities to identify young people with academic ability, who do not have the means to access secondary and further education, giving them opportunity to develop skills, independence, confidence and academic ability. Allowing them to reach their full potential and in so doing change lives to build a better and brighter future for themselves and their families, their community and their country.

Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley

Local MSP:

Willie Coffey MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Abbas Rest Orphans: based in Kilmarnock, the charity has raised funds for their partnership including through a fashion show with donations from the Dress Exchange in Kilmarnock. Abbas Rest Orphans have helped build more than 300 latrines and washrooms in Malawi and is overseeing a farm project as well as assessing future childrens' requirements.

 East Ayrshire Council

 Stewarton John Knox Church: the church has held various fundraising events for the charity EMMS International. EMMS supports Malawi hospitals and healthcare projects, and is also a member of the SMP.

Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale

Local MSP:

Christine Grahame MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Beeslack Community High School (partnered with Engcongolweni High school, Mzimba region), Newtongrange Primary School (partnered with Likhubulah, Mulanje region) and Penicuik High School (partnered with Thyolo Secondary School, Thyolo region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland. St Ronan's Primary School is looking to develop a school partnership so that pupils can work on joint projects and explore each other’s’ cultures.

 Jonathan Hunter: Jonathan is developing a social enterprise along with his Malawian colleague, Simon Chirambo, the objective of which is to provide on-going technical services for the water sector (particularly in rural areas) to improve the level of local community access to clean water. Their vision is that the social enterprise will become the utility provider for communities in the northern region looking after their long-term water access needs, and will become self-sustaining through the income it will generate.

 Melrose and Peebles Presbytery: the Presbytery has been partnered with the Presbytery of Zomba for many years and numerous visits have taken place. Congregations have sent sewing machine, bicycles, computers, tools and hospital equipment to support their partners in Zomba. Churches included in this partnership include: Old Parish & St Paul’s Church, Stow St Mary of Wedale and Heriot Church, and Innerleithen, Traquir and Walkerburn Church of Scotland.

West Scotland

Neil Bibby MSP Maurice Corry MSP Mary Fee MSP Maurice Golden MSP Scottish Labour Scottish Conservative Scottish Labour Party Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party and Unionist Party

Jamie Greene MSP Ross Greer MSP Ken Macintosh MSP Scottish Conservative Scottish Green Party Independent and Unionist Party

Clydebank and Milngavie

Local MSP:

Gil Paterson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bearsden Academy (partnered with Ngumbe Secondary, Blantyre region); Castlehill Primary School (partnered with Kitwetwe, Livingstonia region); Clydemuir Primary School (partnered with Fumbwa Primary School, Dedza region); St Stephen's Primary School (partnered with Chisenjere School) and Whitecrook Primary School (partnered with Nansato Primary School, Mulanje region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Cairns Church: partnered with Nkanda CCAP (Church of Central Africa Presbyterian), they have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries. Since signing their twinning agreement in 2009, the congregation of Cairns Church have supported their Malawi partners with fertiliser and maintenance of their church.

 Isaro Social Integration Network: a black and ethnic minority led voluntary organisation based in Glasgow, who are planning to expand their activities to Malawi.

 R.S. Garrow Ltd: an innovation business with agencies for drinking water and waste water cleaning kits. Both products appear suitable for the developing world as neither needs imported chemicals, they are delivered as modules ready to hook up and go and energy consumption is modest, flexible in form and possibly available from local and sustainable sources. In combination this kit offers water re-use / recycling.

Cunninghame North

Local MSP:

Kenneth Gibson MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Ardrossan Presbytery: the presbytery is partnered with Milala Presbytery in Livingstonia.

 Caledonia Primary School (partnered with Katawa School, Mzuzu region); Kilmory Primary School (partnered with a school in the Lilongwe region); Winton Primary School and St Matthew Academy (partnered with St Peters Secondary, Mzuzu region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Largs St John’s: the church is partnered with St John’s CCAP (Church of Central Africa Presbyterian), Katalonji, in Livingstonia. They have an active, two-way partnership which promotes friendship and learning between our two countries.

Cunninghame South

Local MSP:

Ruth Maguire MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Auchenharvie Academy: has a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

 North Ayrshire Council

 Scottish Relief Fund for Malawi: the organisation was set up in 2002 to assist with famine relief in Malawi. It has continued to gather funds to support needy projects in 3 regions of Malawi. Orphanages are targeted for assistance.

Dumbarton

Local MSP:

Jackie Baillie MSP Scottish Labour

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Dumbarton Academy and Renton Primary School: both have school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

Eastwood

Local MSP:

Jackson Carlaw MSP Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Kwenderana Partnership Group: Kwenderana is a group of four churches in the Eastwood Area of East Renfrewshire which was formed about 2 years ago. The churches have all been partnered with Carol Finlay, who used to be based at Ekwendeni in Malawi, but is now with Church of Scotland, Edinburgh. The churches involved are Busby Parish Church, Giffnock South Parish Church, Greenbank Parish Church and Williamwood Parish Church.

 Williamwood High School: (partnered with Ekwendeni Secondary School, Mzimba region) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This school link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

Greenock and Inverclyde

Local MSP:

Stuart McMillan MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Clydeview Academy (partnered with Namadidi Community Day Secondary School, Zomba region); Garvel School (partnered with Mua School for the Deaf, Dedza region); Gourock Primary School (partnered with Namadidi Primary); Inverclyde Academy (partnered with Chiradzulu Secondary, Chiradzulu region); Inverkip Primary School (partnered with Malavi Primary School, Chikwawa); King's Oak Primary (partnered with Chiradzulu Full Primary School, Chiradzulu region); Notre Dame High School (partnered with Njamba Secondary, Chiradzulu region); Port Glasgow High School (partnered with Nguludi Secondary, Chiradzulu region); St Mary's Primary (partnered with Chikuli Primary, Chiradzulu region); Wemyss Bay Primary School (partnered with Malire Primary School, Malire region) and Whinhill Primary School (partnered with a school in the Chiradzulu region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Inverclyde Council

Paisley

Local MSP:

George Adam MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Gleniffer High School: (partnered with Dzenza Primary School, Dedza region) has an active, dignified, two-way school-to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. This school link is transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 Todholm Primary School: is looking to build a relationship with a partner school in Malawi.

 Renfrewshire Council

Renfrewshire North and West

Local MSP:

Derek Mackay MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Just Trading Scotland (JTS): JTS is a fair trade organisation, set up to facilitate the import and distribution of fairly traded products to the UK. Their main focus is on their partnership with small holder farmers in the North of Malawi. They seek to empower local producers by giving them greater access to international markets. Through giving these producers a fair price for their product they are enabled to invest in the education of their children and improve their productivity through investing in farming equipment.

 Kilmacolm Primary School: (partnered with Phinda F.P. Primary School) has an active, dignified, two-way school- to-school link which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens.

 Orkidstudio: works to benefit communities worldwide through innovative architecture, construction and social enterprise. They believe that creativity has the power to inspire and instil pride within people regardless of race, nationality or circumstance and they use architecture, design and enterprise as tools for relieving poverty and changing lives. They have delivered projects in Malawi and have a strong interest in continued work in the country.

 Kirklandneuk Primary School and Park Mains High School: both have a school link with Malawi which is informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities can include: active, dignified, two- way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

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Renfrewshire South

Local MSP:

Tom Arthur MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Calum Fisher: prior to university, Calum Fisher spent "the happiest year" of his life as a teacher in a Lilongwe primary/secondary school. He taught English, Maths and French to students aged 10-30. He hopes to pursue postgraduate research on Malawi in future years.

 St Benedict's High School (partnered with St Patrick’s Minor Seminary, Rumphi region) and Barrhead High School: both have active school links with Malawi which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. Activities include: active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links; teacher exchange programmes; the creation and use of dedicated education resources. These and other links are transforming lives both in Malawi and Scotland.

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Strathkelvin and Bearsden

Local MSP:

Rona Mackay MSP Scottish National Party

SMP Members in this constituency include:

 Bearsden Primary School (partnered with Mphunzi Primary School, Dedza region); Craighead Primary School (partnered with Chikololere Primary, Golomoti region); Killermont Primary School (partnered with Dedza LEA Primary School, Dedza region); Kirkintilloch High School (partnered with Moonekera Primary School, Dedza region) and Lenzie Academy (partnered with Nansomba High School, Mulanje region): all have active, dignified, two-way school-to-school links which are informing and inspiring generations of young Scots to be good global citizens. These links are transforming lives in Malawi and Scotland.

 East Dunbartonshire Council

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“I am very proud of the links that exist between Scotland and Malawi and want these to be strengthened still further … This report, produced by the Scottish Government- funded Scotland Malawi Partnership, shows the depth of the enduring relationship we enjoy, with links to Malawi from communities in every part of Scotland.” Nicola Sturgeon MSP, Leader, Scottish National Party and First Minister of Scotland

“I am delighted to welcome the publication of this report … At heart, this is about friendship. Not just between governments, but between two peoples." Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader, Scottish Conservative Party

“Through education, communicatio n and engagement we are forging a lasting relationship with this fascinating and creative country at the heart of Africa." Willie Rennie MSP, Leader, Scottish Liberal Democrats

“As this report highlights, almost every section of Scottish civic life is now involved with Malawi in some way, with record numbers of community groups, schools, universities and hospitals actively engaged. This represents the best of Scottish internationalism, which will contribute to sustainable development and to global challenges such as equality and human rights." Harvie MSP, Leader, Scottish Green Party

See pages 3 and 4 for full messages of support from Scotland's five Party Leaders.

www.scotland-malawipartnership.org

Address: Room 3/7, City Chambers, City of Edinburgh Council, High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1YJ

Tel: 0131 529 3164 E mail: [email protected]

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