Links
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.
Nation
Online
Online version of one of the main papers in the country.
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.
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
• GAP
Activity Projects (for 17-25 year olds)
• Volunteer
4 Africa
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