Our Women’s Fairtrade Certified Essential Oil Co-operative are working hard and making exciting progress – they are enjoying every minute of it!  Take a look at all of the pictures of our wonderful women from Ann Page’s (UK Co-ordinator) recent Malawi trip on Facebook at:-
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Build A School are incredibly proud to present our newly formed women’s Fairtrade certified organic essential oil co-operative at our Tickbird Visitor Centre site, Malawi. This co-operative will provide these women with much needed education, employment, income and empowerment. They will be producing the world’s first Fairtrade certified organic essential oil products such as soap. Amazing!
Our wonderful women are: Velentina Banda, Suzan Malunga, Elube Zagwa, Vaileti Bowa, Emily Chiwaya, Unike Madzi, Sofeleti Msungamoyo, Ana Kambaika, Fanesi Gositi and Elube Nyumeni.

Attention everyone! Don’t forget to keep checking Twitter http://twitter.com/#!/BuildASchool and our Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/Buildaschool for exciting updates and photos of our amazing progress in Malawi, including the start- up of our Fairtrade certified essential oil women’s co-operative! We also now have a Twitter widget on our website for you to follow. Please get involved and feel free to make any suggestions or let us know your fundraising ideas!

The DialAFlight team (http://www.dialaflight.com/) had a wonderful time recently in Malawi when they went to check out the progress of our new double block classroom at Ngwenya Primary School which they have kindly funded. 
The team – Giles Golding, Dean Smith, Paul Markham, Kelly Francis and Nicola Payne had fun playing games with the children followed by cutting the ribbon and enjoying the dancing and music at the opening ceremony.  They also took the opportunity to visit our Mbelekete Primary School during their visit to Malawi. 
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On 18th May 2011 the ring beam was completed ready for the roof timbers…
    
On 25th May 2011 the roof timbers were in place ready for the roof sheets…

We are making great progress with the construction of our new double block classroom at Ngwenya Primary School, funded by DialAFlight (The Lotus Group) http://www.dialaflight.com/ 
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Construction of our new double block classroom at Ngwenya Primary School, kindly funded by DialAFlight (The Lotus Group),  is well underway.  The foundations have been laid and the walls have been started.  See more photos of our progress on Facebook at:
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A small video of the opening ceremony at one of the schools we’ve built.

Some footage of one of the villages we’ve been helping.

Grieve Massa is Build A School Manager for Malawi and he keeps busy overseeing projects and working with local communities. Here’s a typical day for Grieve as he runs operations…

7am
Early start for me, tea to get me going and then into Lilongwe to meet a builder.
8am
I discuss the availability of cement with our contractor and then off to the bank.
8.30am
Money has come from the UK and I sign off the cash with our accountant. As usual, the queues are long in the bank but I’m soon on my way.
10.30am
Meeting with …