A really successful year with Mkondezi in 2015-16 led us to develop this programme for primary schools here in Nkhata Bay. I´d always felt that rather than working individually with one, or two schools, it would be ideal to offer the necessary materials for those teachers who were interested to learn and teach about them […]

We decided to start Nkhata Bay’s first radio station after an inspiring visit to Mzimba Community Radio in 2001. Since that time we started teaching the community about recording and broadcasting for radio, using the media room at Butterfly […]

This initiative has been running for 3 years and was founded by an English doctor who previously volunteered at the hospital. One of our graduated FAWNS groups learned how to weave Moses baskets for babies to sleep in, made form locally sourced cane […]

Butterfly aims to empower young people with disabilities to become as independent as possible, and to gain opportunities to participate meaningfully in their communities and family homes. For the last five years, I have organized a weekly group at Butterfly where young adults[…]

The very first community project at Butterfly was the establishment of Gulugufe nursery school which is only 1km away from the lodge. It has been successfully running for 11 years now. Some of the first children attending have remained with us for their whole educational provision and will be graduating […]

Josie & Alice have always had a strong link with Chikale Primary School. In the past six years, they have built two classrooms and a school block for the school which have been funded by many fundraising efforts including a school fate which went down really well. Alice feels so strongly about the children […]

Since it opened in April 2012, the media centre has become a creative dynamic space for the Nkhata Bay community. It consists of two rooms full of media equipment and information which is free to use for the local community […]

There are many and varied women’s groups which use Butterfly Space, both for lessons and information and also as a place to sell their produce. It is an excellent all-encompassing idea that consistently brings the community together in a pro-active way [..]