About Us:
ABOUT THE TRUST:

Our home base is in Liwonde National Park in the Southern Region of Malawi. Together with the Department of National Parks and Wildlife, Chinguni Hills Lodge and a number of local and international non-governmental groups, we aim to assist our boundary communities and the park administration in three main areas;

Education
TARGETING PRIMARY SCHOOLS ON THE PARK PERIPHERY.
  • Support teaching staff to improve children's education.
     
  • Develop conservation awareness through games, drama and story telling.
     
  • Initiate extra-curricular activities with sports, arts and craft programs.
     
  • Improve existing school facilities and construct new infrastructure to create a better learning environment.
Crafts and Income Generating Activities
RURAL MALAWIANS ARE AMONGST THE POOREST IN THE WORLD.
  • Establish a Craft Development School utilizing surplus resources from the Park.
     
  • Set up a demonstration site for testing and displaying a variety of new crops and farming options that eliminate conflict with wildlife and supplement farmers' incomes.
     
  • Assist individuals and cooperative groups in the boundary zone communities in obtaining funds and technical support for selected income support projects.
Research and Infrastructural Development
WILDLIFE POPULATIONS IN THE PARK WERE TOTALLY DECIMATED BY POACHERS IN THE MID '90s.
  • Support ongoing National Park research and monitoring initiatives.
     
  • Establish a large mammal carrying capacity model for Liwonde National Park.
     
  • Conduct a bio-diversity census.
     
  • Carry out vegetation studies.
     
  • Assist in the ongoing maintenance and development of the Park's road network and support infrastructure.
  Liwonde NP Phtographs by kind permission of WP Frost, Matablas Digital Productions 2004