A local friend called Amos sat down with Alice one day and suggested this project to help the older community in Nkhata Bay. After a day’s work, everybody deserves to be comfortable when they sleep, and after a life time of working, people definitely deserve this. Having a comfortable bed to sleep on [...]

By using permaculture principles at Chikale Nursery & Primary School, we began landscaping and planting which resulted in beautiful gardens. This has made a very welcoming and homely environment for the children when they come to school each day. With the children and teachers committing to work [...]

Teaching children is one of the most popular ways of contributing to the community here in Malawi. The idea of teaching is very rewarding, and to think you are making a difference to a child’s future is incredibly inviting. Alice and Josie have always had a passion for teaching children, whether […]

Founded by Alice, Little Leaper’s is a primary school which is built on site here at Butterfly. The ten children between the ages of four to seven are taught Standard 2 and the school runs from Monday to Friday between the hours of 7:30am-12pm. The children all live in Nkhata Bay and it is a non profit school teaching project [...]

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 in […]

Built on site here at Butterfly, The Youth Club was opened in June 2010. As an out of school club, boys and girls of all ages meet here on a daily basis which provides a safe, fun educational environment. It has become a lively part of Butterfly Space and many activities are organised daily. Each day we offer different […]

After a huge fundraising effort which involved Josie and a friend cycling the entire length of Lake Malawi, the Information & Internet Centre opened its doors in 2009 on site at Butterfly. Josie had raised over one million Kawacha and after a renovation effort, it was turned a dormitory into an inspiring place for the […]

Sinced it opened in April 2012, this creative dynamic space holds two rooms full of lots of useful information that can benefit the community through media including a recording room and a larger room stocked with a projector, radio and computers. The recording room is full of the latest [...]