Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Trust

13/08/2025

What an honour!

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of InterCare -Medical Aid for Africa, Diane Hardy and Robert Pettifer, visited us at Ndi Moyo in Salima, Malawi on 7th August 2025 to appreciate the work and services the facility is providing to the community.

Intercare has been supporting Ndi Moyo for the past ten (10) years, through donations of essential medicines and other assorted medical stuff including bandages, stethoscopes and Blood Pressure monitors etc.
After clinic facility tour, the duo expressed their satisfaction with the way Ndi Moyo operates and observed that it is a welcoming palliative care centre. The CEO was in particular impressed with the existence of a prayer room (meditation room) at Ndi Moyo.
The visit ended with the CEO making a donation of assorted medical items and she assured management that another consignment of essential medicines will reach Ndi Moyo before the end of August 2025. Apart from medicines, Intercare has also pledged to donate a Glycohemoglobin Analyzer which will be delivered to Ndi Moyo through Action Medeor Malawi.
To all our supporters, please visit us when an opportunity arises.

07/08/2025

Retired but still passionate

The story of Nester, the first nurse to be employed by Ndi Moyo in 2006 and she retired from active work in 2020. She has rejoined Ndi Moyo to help out at the time we need an extra hand to cover our two nurses who are full time running the Initiators training for the next 5 weeks.
Nester is captured here assisting a patient in the clinic. She will be providing care to patients for the next five weeks. It will cost £230 to compensate her time.

Welcome back Nester.

06/08/2025

It is a beautiful Wednesday today and the weather in Salima is cool. The Palliative Care training is progressing well. About 10 patients have already checked in at the clinic to be seen by our compassionate providers.
But Ndi Moyo is not only seeing patients at its facility today. Two clinicians are set for outreach clinic at Khombeza (a government health centre) about 50 km away. More than 30 patients do benefit from the such scheduled clinics at this facility. Apart from hoping for medicines from the Ndi Moyo clinicians, these patients also expect to receive nutritional supplements. Thanks to Gift of Givers Foundation for the constant provision of the supplements which helps to boost both patients’ survival and quality of life.
Ndi Moyo outreach clinics are possible because of the generous financial contribution from you, our well-wishers. More support is needed in order for Ndi Moyo to pay salaries for palliative care providers, buy essential medicines and maintain the ambulance.
£326 covers monthly salary for a nurse, £750 covers monthly supply of essential medicines and it cost £350 to maintain and run an ambulance in a month.

04/08/2025

The Palliative Care Desk Officer in the Ministry of Health in Malawi has applauded Ndi Moyo for its efforts in extending palliative care work across the nation through trainings, a noble initiative which fits well with government aspirations and objectives. Speaking as guest of honour during the opening ceremony of the 8th Palliative Care Initiator’s course in Salima on Monday 4th August, Dr Catherine Chiwaula also commended Ndi Moyo for the wonderful services the trust is providing to the communities in Salima District.
In her message to training participants, she urged them to make use of the training opportunity to learn necessary skills that will enable them to be exceptional palliative care providers and also to implement palliative care projects in their health facilities. Twenty-five (25) health professionals from 21 heath facilities are taking part in this year’s training organised by Ndi Moyo in conjunction with Hospice Africa Uganda. The training will last for five weeks. Other guests who witnessed the opening ceremony include Executive Director of Palliative Care Association of Malawi (PACAM) Mr Lameck Thambo, Director of Health and Social Services in Salima Dr Kateng Kaunda, Dr Eddie Mwebesa from Hospice Africa Uganda, Dr Nkhoma from Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) and also Rev Christopher Ndalo from Pentecostal Assemblies of Malawi.

03/08/2025

All is set for the commencement of Ndi Moyo’s 8th Palliative Care training on Monday 4th August 2025. The five-week Palliative Care Initiators Course run annually at Ndi Moyo in Salima therefore forms an important part of the palliative care training on offer to nurses and clinicians in Malawi. This year Ndi Moyo has 25 participants for the training. Dr Catherine Chiwaula (MoH Palliative Care Desk Officer) will be Guest of Honour for the opening ceremony scheduled for 9 a.m to 11 a.m in Salima. Dr Eddie Mwebesa from Hospice Africa Uganda will deliver the keynote address during the ceremony.
Extending palliative care to under-served areas in Malawi.

Photo below - 2024 Course participants during the opening ceremony

01/08/2025

Medical waste, if not properly treated and disposed of, can pose serious health risks to health care workers, patients and the general public.
At Ndi Moyo, we are committed to ensuring that medical waste is disposed of in a responsible way. We further understand that the traditional methods of landfills and incineration have significant environmental and social implications including air and water pollution. For us, safety of our stakeholders and the general public matters.
Today, we announce the completion of installation works of a modern Medical Waste Incinerator machine at our clinic in Salima. Let’s go smokeless and pollution free.

Tested and it works! Here we go

10/07/2025

2025 Ndi Moyo Charity Golf Tournament- MK22 million from our sponsors.

27/02/2025

17/02/2025

OUR ROAD TO VIRTUAL CASE CONFERENCE
In October 2022, Ndi Moyo embarked on virtual case conferencing to promote sharing of palliative care knowledge among palliative care providers. There are 19 health facilities involved (and were initially trained by Ndi Moyo) these sites include 4 central hospitals, 6 district hospitals, 4 CHAM hospitals and 5 health centres across Malawi. All the sites were provided with Lenovo tablets and Ndi Moyo also shares data bundle.
The case conferences are held on weekly basis every Thursday whereby the 19 sites and Ndi Moyo rotate to present special cases in palliative. The presentation is followed by a discussion and questions enhancing sharing of experiences and ideas. Ultimately, this contributes towards provision of quality palliative care to patients in respective health facilities.
On 6th February, Ndi Moyo held the 3rd case conference this year. It was presented by Mr. George Matenda from Phalombe District Hospital (Commonly known as Rev. John Chilembwe Hospital). He presented an interesting case of a presumptive cancer patient not responding to chemotherapy. He needs to be done biopsy but cannot afford to pay for it. The case conference was attended by 15 sites including: Ndi Moyo, Mzuzu Central Hospital, Mzimba South District Hospital, K2 TASO of Kasungu, Nkhoma Hospital, Kasina Health Centre, Zomba Central Hosppital, John Chilembwe Hospital, Holy Family Mission Hospital, Chiradzulu Disrtrict Hospital, Machinga District Hospital, Katuli Health Centre, Mlambe Health & Social Trust and Ekwendeni Hospital.
Ndi Moyo intends to scale up the project to at most 10 sites in 2025.

03/02/2025

As we continue to celebrate our partnership with the Gift of Givers Foundation......

Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Trust runs monthly nutrition clinics with support from Gift of the Givers. Provisions include assorted food supplements such as maize flour, soya flour, soya meat, and peanut butter. Most of Ndi Moyo patients are malnourished so they benefit a lot from this kind of donation.
The patients are categorized into two groups: moderately and severely malnourished. Those with moderate malnutrition are supplied with porridge flour and those with severe malnutrition are supplied with peanut butter, soya meat and flour for nsima.

In 2025 the first nutrition clinic was held on 31st January. Seventy (70) patients attended the clinic; 28 males and 42 females. Out of 70 patients 12 had severe malnutrition and 58 had moderate malnutrition.
Food supplementation is considered part of treatment given to the patients. However, in most cases patients share the food with their families, because of food shortage, making it difficult for them to improve nutritionally.

27/01/2025

Look at how shining our young girls are!

On Wednesday 22nd January 2025 Ndi Moyo Palliative Care Trust invited girls on the vulnerable children program and in particular those that reached puberty age. We engaged Evelyn, a Clinician at our clinic, in order to explain to them about menstrual cycle. Thanks to a kind donation from Pauline Webber, we were able to give out reusable sanitary pads to each of the girls.
We are very proud to say that Ulemu Gilbert, one of our success stories, was able to join us and gave an encouraging talk to the girls. Ndi Moyo started education support to Ulemu in 2011 while in primary school. Now she is a successful college student with a Diploma in Public Health. We are very proud of her and glad she could pay us a visit and even help us encourage all the other girls. Overall, it was a very joyous day, many of the girls were able to connect with one another, able to share their experiences and empower each other.

17/01/2025

“There is no ‘I’ in team but there is in win.”

Teamwork is propelling the event today as we do celebrate the new year with our patients. Bravo Ndi Moyo team...the winning team.