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General Information About Malawi

Information About Health

Other Links

Suggested Reading

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Links to Websites

Here we give a list of websites with information about Malawi, travellers' health, and other subjects. Please don’t use this as a definitive list, especially regarding health, malaria, visas, flight and transport information. If you find any other websites that you think would be worth adding, please let us know.

General Information About Malawi
Malawi Tourism Guide
A very informative site, and they will send out their information packs to anywhere in the world on request (enquiries@malawitourism.com).

Guide2Malawi
A well laid out and interesting guide to Malawi (try the 'cichlids' link from the Lakeside Living > Fish of Malawi page).

Grace Matnanga (courtesy of The Guardian newspaper)
An excellent special report by The Guardian newspaper (UK) about AIDS in Malawi. Several links from here.

Story Workshop
A beautiful website. This organisation uses traditional cultural entertainment to ‘mobilise social change’ in Malawi. This looks very unique and interesting.

To Africa with a Spatula
A website about a book published by a family who worked for the Peace Corps in Malawi from 1965-67.

Malawi
A World News website with a lot of news and good guide and directories links.

Malawi — The Warm Heart of Africa
The unofficial “Guide to Malawi”. Hear the National Anthem, which all schoolchildren sing every morning before classes start. Also, a little ChiChewa language lesson.

Go To Africa — Malawi
A useful website with general information about Malawi.

Lonely Planet Malawi
The usual Lonely Planet information.

Alex Sievers — Malawi
Alex Sievers is a Dutch photographer, and the section on Malawi on his website contains a number of his photos and his diary about the time he spent there.

Friends of Malawi
An American website with a section entitled "Learn About Malawi" which contains some useful information.

Nyasa Times
Online newspaper with all the up-to-date news in Malawi.

Michael Harder — Malawi
Michael Harder is a Danish photographer, and his website has some fast loading pictures of Malawi. A few gems of the Gule Wamkulu!

The Malawi Project, Inc.
The Malawi Project, Inc., is an American organisation working in Malawi. The website gives the low-down on the famine, AIDS, etc., in Malawi, and also has useful information about the country, its people and culture.

African Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania — Malawi
Language and development links.

Information About Health
MASTA
MASTA is a UK organisation, and their website provides travel health advice on anti-malarials, vaccinations and disease prevention for the people travelling abroad.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — Travelers' Health
CDC is part of the Department of Health and Human Services in the US. The "Travelers' Health" section contains links to all the information you might need about anti-malarials, etc.

Other Links
afrocentrique.com
A really super website selling arts and crafts from Malawi online, and there’s some wonderful singing!

The Africa Guide
A complete and comprehensive guide to every country in Africa with essential travel information and hundreds of tours and safaris, hotels and car hire throughout the continent. They have been very supportive of our volunteer and sponsorship projects.

Kiboko Safaris
Kiboko run really good value-for-money safaris in Malawi and Zambia, and they also run an hotel in Lilongwe.

Project African Wilderness (PAW)
This website is for an organisation called Project African Wilderness, or PAW. PAW has been formed to protect and restore the Mwabvi Wildlife Reserve in Southern Malawi.

ASAP Africa
ASAP helps individuals in southern Africa to improve their own lives and become self-reliant with sustainable, community-based development.

SOS Africa
SOS Africa is a UK registered charity, which funds the education and care of underprivileged children from the poorest areas of southern Africa.

Aid2Africa.co.uk
This charity is working in Zimbabwe in Harare and in the Eastern Highlands from Mutare northwards where it is building classrooms at a new school. It pays the school fees of children who have lost one or both parents to HIV/AIDS, and provides resources like text books, sanitation and water.

Eco-Libris
"Every book you read was once a tree. Now you can plant a tree for every book you read." Eco-Libris is supporting RIPPLE Africa's reforestation projects with money raised from people who balance out the books they buy.

The Road to Reading
The Road to Reading is a collection of wallcharts, flash cards, and stories designed to be used as an aid to teaching reading and English grammar. The items on this website might be a useful resource for volunteers.

The Responsible Safari Company
Started by Dom and Kate and based in Blantyre, The Responsible Safari Company will organise tailor-made safaris to suit you, your family or friends.

Other tour operators based in Malawi are:

 

Ulendo Safaris

Barefoot Safaris

Land and Lake Safaris

 
If RIPPLE Africa isn’t exactly what you’re looking for, there are also hundreds of other volunteer opportunities on:
 

Idealist and Action Without Borders

Volunteer Abroad

Volunteer Match (mostly domestic US)

WorldWide Volunteering

The Leap

i-to-i

Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly GAP Activity Projects) (for 17-25 year olds)

Volunteer 4 Africa

IcFEM Gap Volunteers (IcFEM is a Christian organisation looking for flexible and hard working volunteers to spend between two weeks and six months working on its projects in Western Kenya)

Nomad Tours (volunteer in Africa, travel responsibly …)

Volunteer Abroad with Projects Abroad (volunteer projects and internships abroad)

 

Suggested Reading

If you want to know more about Africa, its history, its people and its problems, then there are a few books we recommend you read before you start your placement. They are:

 

"The Shackled Continent: Africa's Past, Present and Future", by Robert Guest
"The State of Africa: A History of Fifty Years of Independence", by Martin Meredith
"Mukiwa" and "When a Crocodile Eats the Sun", by Peter Godwin

 

and another book we haven't read yet but which has had very good reviews:

 

"The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It", by Paul Collier

 

If anyone has read other books that they could recommend, please let us know and we can add them to the list.

 
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