Kayak Africa has been offering educational trips to Mumbo and Domwe to local schools for three years now in the hope of fostering a sense of community involvement and understanding of the reasons why the [...]
A number of lodges, cottages and the Billy Riordan Clinic in Cape Maclear have clubbed together to purchase a high pressure water pump and long hose to fight fires in our local village. Because the [...]
In the previous four years, we have made clothes for the orphans looked after by Vision, a local man who runs an informal, but vital, feeding scheme for vulnerable children. This year, instead of using [...]
As we do every year, we have updated and refreshed all the cushion covers on Mumbo and Domwe with locally bought and printed cotton chitenje fabrics. In the last week of the year, when the [...]
Twenty four students and six teachers from Cape Maclear Primary School enjoyed a day trip to Mumbo Island this month. Schools in Malawi were re-opened after the long holiday on 3 September. From last semester's [...]
The Chalker family, who recently stayed on Mumbo Island, recently put together a massive load of toys, clothes and gear to donate to Vision's orphanage in Cape Maclear, which they had read about in our [...]
August saw a wonderful week of chef training on Mumbo by the talented Juleta Hirner, who has been training the Mumbo chefs on and off since 2004. It's been a clattering, fragrant roller coaster ride [...]
In May this year, Kayak Africa put together and supported the fifth Mission Malawi Cycle Tour. Mission Malawi is a biannual charity challenge raising money for HIV/Aids projects run by ActionAid in Malawi, Mozambique and [...]
Between Joseph Kamanje, manager at Kayak Africa, and staff of the Lake Malawi National Parks, two successful visits by students at Cape Maclear Primary School were arranged this month. The top three pupils in each [...]
Kayak Africa recently hosted the first of many school visits by local school children to Mumbo Island. This is a new initiative between National Parks and Kayak Africa, with the intention of showing every child [...]
The latest great innovation on Mumbo Island is the making of home made, fresh pasta in our island kitchen. Our innovative island manager, Mare, managed to procure two pasta machines from friends who no longer [...]
Our drinking glasses on Mumbo are made from the wine bottles used on the island. Lately our island staff have learned how to make these glasses. During the quiet hours of the day, they make [...]
Again this year we redecorated with fresh chitenje cloths - with which Billy Bwanali the local tailor, re-covered all our cushions. We then paid for him to make last year's faded, but good, covers into [...]
