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OPDU Report 27 June 2010 - Annual Risk Conference Special Edition

OPDU - Malawi Special Appeal

125th Anniversary for Thomas Miller

Chauncy Maples

Thomas Miller invites you to support the Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust and change 500,000 people’s lives by renovating Africa's oldest motor ship as a primary health clinic.

Chauncy Maples

What is this Project About?

  •  Provides humanitarian and medical support
  • Recycles this 1899 vessel
  • Preserves marine heritage
  • Provides marine and engineering training
  • National symbol in Malawi - a catalyst for national pride and tourism

Achieving this needs £2m

Chauncy Maples  

How will Chauncy Maples help?

  • Monthly rotation 
  • One village per day
  • Deliver curative and preventative medicine

Why does Lake Malawi need a clinic?

  • 500,000 of Africa’s poorest people
  •  Live on less than 75p per day
  • Little or no access to healthcare
  • Under 5 death rate 11%
  • 1 doctor per 52,000 people

Chauncy Maples

How will the project be a success?

  • Full Malawi Government support
  • Designed by South African Naval Architect
  • Executed by UK / Malawian marine engineer leading an experienced team
  • Finances tightly controlled by a UK Charity
  • Charity board experienced in aid projects in Africa

How will the project be sustained in the long-term?

We need:

  • an NGO partner to support the Ministry of Health in running the ship
  • an oil company to sponsor the fuel for 3-5 years
  • suppliers to sponsor their aftersales service

Why is Thomas Miller involved?

  •  A positive and appropriate way to celebrate 125 years
  • Founded on Victorian enterprise in 1885
  • The Sponsor of the Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust
  • Providing management and  leadership n Donating £250,000

How will the project be funded?

  • Malawi Government owns ship and providing some funds
  • Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust raising £2m
  • Three fundraising rounds
    • Private Q1- Q2 2010 - £500k
    • Public Q3 - Q4 2010 - £750k+
    • Malawi - £250-500k
  •  Donations in money, parts or services

How can you help us make this happen?

  • Become a Founder Benefactor or Supporter depending on level of support
  • Make a donation or a gift of parts / services
  • Have your support acknowledged on the web, in print and on the ship

Donation levels

  • Donors will be listed alphabetically in the Donor Level order i.e. Founders first etc.
  • If you would like your logo to appear on the front of the ship’s bridge, there will be a charge of £2,000 separately invoiced. This is only available to Founders. Otherwise your name will appear on a Donor Board on the ship
  • We are happy to discuss additional benefits in respect of very large donations

Please become part of this unique project

  • Improve the lives of 500,000 of the world’s poorest people
  • Renovate Chauncy Maples
  • Give Malawi a national symbol to be proud of

Chauncy Maples

Celebrating 125 years

Thomas Miller, the manager of OPDU, is celebrating its 125th anniversary. It was founded in 1885 to manage the UK P&I Club, one of the world’s largest marine insurers and we continue to do this today. In the last 20 years we have diversified our portfolio of business and in 1997 we launched OPDU.

Over the past year we sought a way to celebrate this which would be imaginative, have the potential to do good and be of universal interest to our community, while having a mari-time flavour and thereby reflecting our roots. We found a unique project which meets all these objectives.

Sponsoring Chauncy Maples - Lake Malawi's Clinic

Chauncy Maples is Africa's oldest motor ship (built 1899 in Glasgow) and has sailed on Lake Malawi since. The Chauncy Maples Malawi Trust, a UK Charity, is raising £2m to renovate the ship as a primary health clinic on Lake Malawi, serving 500,000 of the world's poorest people who have little or no access to medicine. Thomas Miller has agreed to sponsor the project. The needs of lakeside Malawian people combined with the history of Chauncy Maples, not least how she got to Lake Malawi, make this a tremendous endeavour.

This venture is high profile in Malawi and recently the President of Malawi publicly announced the project. Chauncy Maples herself is known to most Malawians and has played an important role in the history and development of Malawi.

Thomas Miller donating £250,000

Thomas Miller is itself contributing £250,000 and is helping the charity raise the balance. As part of this we are seeking the support of our community - clubs, members, business partners and the suppliers of the equipment needed on the vessel. As we go to press, Thomas Miller’s community has already committed £250,000 - so we are already at £500,000 - a great start.

£2 million needed - can you help?

We urgently need your help now to raise £2m and make this project happen – the quicker we raise the money, the sooner we can improve the lives of lakeside Malawians. Sick people can't work; sick children can't learn. If you are interested in becoming involved, please contact Mark Holford:

mark.holford@thomasmiller.com  020 7204 2350; Mark is Thomas Miller's Marketing Director and a trustee/fund raising director of the charity.

Visit the site here:
www.chauncymaples.org 

Thomas Miller’s new website at
www.thomasmiller.com 

Any support which you can give will be very welcome and if you would like to make a personal donation, please go to:
www.justgiving.com/OPDU

Thank you

Jonathan Bull

A brief history

1852-1895 Missionary Bishop Chauncy Maples

1899 Built in Glasgow for £13,500. Designed by Henry Brunel and Sir John Barry 
Disassembled for transport

Malawi

1899 Transported to Mozambique
Barged up river and carried on the heads of local people

1899 The boiler dragged by 450 tribesmen

1900 - 1901 Reassembled

1901 - 1957 School, Clinic and Church

1914 - 1918 Requisitioned

1951 Celebrating 50 years

1965 - 1992 Lake Ferry

1992 – 2009 Laid Up

2009 Hull inspection and survey

2012 Lake Malawi’s Clinic Laid-up

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