Page 22 - C:\Users\antho\Desktop\FlipBook\

Rotary Magazine for District 1210

Rotary Cannock recently held a Race Night in support of the Imago
Foundation which was a resounding success bringing together
community members, businesses, and charitable souls to raise an
impressive £1,400.
Rotarians and the charity were grateful of the support of local businesses
who so generosity provided raffle prizes to add an extra layer of excitement
and anticipation to the event.
The funds raised on the night will be used towards drilling a borehole on
The Imago Foundation’s site in Namaso Village, in the Mangochi District
of Malawi. This will provide sanitation and clean drinking water to the
surrounding communities, as well as the nursery and primary school
which will be built by the Foundation during the next couple of years.
The Imago Foundation was founded by Hanna and Martyn King who are both Honorary Members
of Cannock Rotary. The club first sponsored Hanna in 2014, when she went to Malawi for a gap year
that was extended to two years because she fell in love with the country and its people.
Malawi is known as the Warm Heart of Africa! Hanna saw first-hand how a good education pulled
students out of poverty. After her gap year, she came home to the UK and met Martyn who was
pulled into her dream of opening a school. Together, the two of them travelled around Malawi in
their ‘DIY built’ camper-van, visiting various organisations to learn about the charity and education
sectors. After a few years, they found the perfect site for their charity; they bought six and a half
acres of land and built a small house with their personal money.
The mission of The Imago Foundation is to educate, nourish and empower marginalised
communities in Malawi through atypical education and outreach and by challenging the status-quo
of inequality, in order to break the cycle of poverty. The Foundation’s main areas of focus are
education, nutrition, and sustainable land use.
The couple were married in 2022, and on returning to the UK earlier this year have visited many
Rotary clubs in the area who are supporting them with their ongoing work in Malawi.

The couple are fundraising to build a nursery, primary school and permaculture site that will be run
by them. They are returning to Malawi in August this year.

The next fund-raising event is a 60s, 70s and 80s Disco Night at Grangemoor Working Men’s Club
in Burntwood on Saturday 17 June.

For further information about The Imago Foundation and their charitable initiatives, please
visit www.theimagofoundation.org or call them on 07842 569 504.

Golf Competition 12.30pm,
Telford Hotel, Spa & Golf
District Handover at The Hub, Informal Dinner in the evening
Walsall College 6.15 for 6.45pm

District Conference 9.30am,
District Council 7pm Telford Hotel, Spa & Golf
Conference Dinner with
13/14 DGE & DGN training entertainment in the evening
15 -17 Rotary Action Summit
Midland Hotel, Manchester Post Conference visit to
Ironbridge and the Blists Hill
museum

22 ROTO SPRING 2023