My Story

I am absolutely thrilled to have been selected by Miller Homes to swap a week at the office in April/ May 2019 for a week building homes in Malawi as part of the Miller Homes Global Village Trip. In Malawi, poverty is widespread and around four in five families live in substandard homes with little hope of being able to afford decent accommodation.

Together with 17 Miller colleagues I will be travelling to the region of Salima to build 3 homes. It will be an incredibly rewarding endeavour changing the lives of the people who will live there and immersing myself in a culture vastly different to my own. However, I need your help and support to get there.

A typical village hut is built of mud bricks with a dirt floor and grass-thatched roof, which requires frequent repairs. These conditions put the families at high risk of all kinds of diseases with leaky roofs making the house damp and mud floors attract insects. There are about 1.5 million vulnerable children in Malawi out of a population of 18.57 million and approximately 21,000 new units are needed every year for the next 10 years to meet housing demand – which far exceeds supply.

Our trip is fully funded by Miller Homes but I am reaching out to you to raise money to continue the great work that Habitat for Humanity carries out and allow for funding of further homes in an attempt to meet the demand of those people most in need.

Your donation, big or small, will go a long way to help increase the basic living standards, which we take for granted in our daily lives, of the people of Malawi.

Thank you so much for any contribution you can make.

Liz