The High Commission is accredited not only to The United Kingdom but also to Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. It also covers international organisations based in the United Kingdom and the other countries of accreditation. The role of the mission is, therefore, to strengthen Malawi’s bilateral and multilateral relations with the countries and international organisations which it covers. In this respect, it promotes trade, investment, tourism, development assistance and humanitarian support. It also provides consular services to Malawians and to foreign nationals. One function which has become increasingly important is engagement with the diaspora and charities. Some of the mission’s work is supported by Malawi’s Honorary Consuls, especially in the countries to which it is accredited on a non-residential basis.
Against this background, you will find, on this website, a wide range of information on Malawi, its trade and investment prospects, its tourism and travel, visa and other consular services and its engagement with the Malawi diaspora and charities. There is also information regarding relations between Malawi and The United Kingdom, the other countries of accreditation and the international organisations which the mission covers. The site further provides links to websites of some public and private organisations in Malawi.
All Malawian citizens and permanent residents in The United Kingdom and other countries of accreditation are encouraged to register with the High Commission. This can be done by completing the Registration Form available on this website, either on-line or physically.
The Permanent Mission of Republic of Malawi to the United Nations
Mission History:
Membership in Commissions and Boards
General Assembly
Vice President of the 58th Regular Session of the General Assembly
Economic and Social Council and its functional Commissions
Member of the Economic and Social Council -1980 – 1982, 2007- 2009
Member of the Commission for Social Development- 1997- 2000
Member of the Commission on Human Rights -1994-1996
Member of the Commission on Narcotic drugs – 1980-1983
Member of the Commission on population and Development- 1967-1968, 1978-1981, 1986-1989, 1998-2001
Member of the Commission on Sustainable Development -1993-1995, 2008-2010
Member of the Commission on Status of Women – 2000-2004
United Nations Funds, Programmes and other bodies
Member of the UNICEF Executive Board 1970-1973, 2004-2006, 2011-2013
Member of the UNDP/UNFPA Executive Boards 2007-2009
Member of the United Nations Environment Programme- 1973-1974,1979-1981, 1998-2001
Member of the UN Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat) 1979-1981, 1986-2000, 2003-2006
Member of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme 2003-2005 (Elected by ECOSOC)
Member of the International Labour Organization 19910-1993, 2002-2005
Member of the Food and Agricultural Organization 1975-1978, 1983-1985
UN Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization -1987-1991, 1999-2003
Member of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization- 1973-1976, 1987-1990
Address:
866 United Nations Plaza, Suite 486, New York, N.Y. 10017
The Embassy is headed by the Ambassador who is a representative of the president of the Republic of Malawi. Together with other diplomatic members of staff, the Ambassador conducts official business of the Government of the Malawi in the United States of America. The main duties and services of the Embassy are as follows:
To facilitate and coordinate economic activities relating to trade, investment and tourism in the United States, and other accredited countries which are;the Bahamas, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Mexico & Puerto Rico.
To facilitate the mobilization of aid and technical assistance from the United States of America and all the Embassy’s accredited countries.
To issue passports or other travel documents to Malawian nationals as well as to foreign nationals wishing to visit or reside in Malawi.
To meet with nationals on matters affecting their social well-being. Make regular visits to communities where nationals reside to listen to their concerns and address these needs where possible.
To assist nationals who have been arrested or incarcerated and make notification as required.
To notarize/authenticate legal documents for Malawian nationals and companies doing business in Malawi.
Malawi Embassy
2408 Massachusetts Avenue, NW,
Washington DC, 20008
Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. Ruth 3:3
On November 14, 2014, Mary Singletary wrote on her FB wall: My recent trip to Malawi a couple of weeks ago visiting the Lumbadzi Primary School on invitation by Honorary Mrs. Patricia Anne Kaliati, MP, The Minister of Gender, Disability and Social Welfare.
Stay tuned for more information!
To the posting, were 15 likes and 8 comments all inclusive of mine that read: “Continue your great work. Awesome picture story.”
Mary passed away on July 6 and was buried on July 14, 2017.
Accolades continue to fill her Facebook wall.
Star Darko writes: Today I buried a very dear friend I was blessed to have had her in my life. Over the last month i saw her ups and down as we listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong she never stopped fighting the good fight. In the hospital I arranged meet ups and took notes because she refused to leave any projects unfinished. She has worked her whole life to advance african americans, women and children and even to her last she worked to pave a way for the next generation. The Pastor said to be absent from the body is to be present with Christ and if we truly believe in the work she has accomplished in her life it is up to us to continue it so her Legacy lives on. Rest in peace Mary E. Singletary my beloved friend and mentor. A helping hand and guiding light to so many. To the Lindsey/Singletary family I pray for your continued strength through this loss.
Gayle Walton writes: We lost a great leader and pioneer for women and children. I give thanks for her mentorship and example of service. Rest in peace Mary E. Singletary.❤?
Najah Shakir writes: RIH Aunt Mary E. Singletary. I never forget your kind words at my wedding & my mothers funeral. My mom, great grandpa Marshall & Aunt Mary reunited. 90 years old & a phenomenal woman. Rest on Aunt Mary.
Link to some of the tributes and the video that was made of her 2014 trip to Malawi: https://www.facebook.com/gayle.waldon/posts/10207060773134871
The gal from New Jersey, attended New Jersey City University and later Howard University, Singletary was a registered nurse who practiced for many years. A great admirer and scholar of Sojourner Truth, the African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Truth was born into slavery in Swartekill, Ulster County, New York, but escaped with her infant daughter to freedom in 1826.
In working on the fashion show to raise money for the fistula hospital she worked with in Lilongwe, it was a joy for me to work with Gyllian Art in the inspirational portrait of African American women and Martin Luther King – the portrait of Michelle Obama, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman and Maya Angelou.
Who was Mary Singletary was answered on May 10, 2017. In a great wonderfully and divine-inspired tribute, friends of Mary Singletary on June 3, 2017 honored the lifetime achievements of this phenomenal woman, who like Madonna, Rihanna and Roger Federer, had chosen Malawi to focus her philanthropic work.
She had insisted that I attend. I am glad I did. That was the last time I saw Mrs Singletary alive.
On that Saturday June 3, 2017, President of the National Council of Women of the United States (NCW/US) Mrs. Mary E. Singletary, received multiple honors at a tribute luncheon, hosted by the Friends of Mary E. Singletary. The event, held at Mayfair Farms, was held in recognition of the enormous work Mrs. Singletary has done in New Jersey, nationally and internationally. Among the accolades flowing in the room, embellished with her friends from all the years of her work, were that QUOTE: She is a woman of quantity, quality and longevity;
***She goes out, seeks people and push them through the glass ceiling; ***Mrs. Singletary “goes out seeks people and push them through the glass ceiling; ***She’s is a modern day heroine like Sorjouner Truth and Harriet Tubman; ***She should be immortalized as a learning tool for other young women; ***As an 88-year young New Jersey resident, four days a week, she treks to office – an hour ride into New York City (across the UN Headquarters); ***The Newark Council President, Honorable Mildred C. Crump cupped the accolades declaring that “everyone should have a Mary Singletary;”
I would add my own: Mrs. Mary E. Singletary never wants anyone to fail; but more importantly for me, she loves connecting people to work together for greater good of marginalized people around the world.
Who is Mrs. Mary Singletary? And why all the pomp? Why all the circumstance? I was privileged to meet Mrs. Singletary when she invited the Ambassador and staff of the Malawi Mission to the UN, to attend a breakfast and later in the day a seminar. After reading that there would be Ann Gloag, who wanted to build a fistula hospital in Malawi, I invested to a dawn wake up to enable me make the 8 a.m. breakfast meeting.
Right away, Mrs. Singletary introduced me to Mrs. Gloag, the millionaire philanthropist who have “been talking with Bill and Tom (former President of the US Bill Clinton and billionaire Tom Hunter). She’d been talking to these two about space in their Lilongwe hospital. She had asked them for 12 beds to set up a fistula hospital. She got my 100 percent attention. Malawi would be the second.
But the two big lads wouldn’t have it. She was told to get permission from the Government of Malawi; and as she was having trouble, could I help her? The request was echoed by Mrs. Singletary. With permission from my Ambassador Steve Matenje, I connected Mrs. Gloag to then Vice President Joyce Banda, who ensured of its completion.
Malawi has a fistula hospital. Slightly changed, the new fistula unit at Bwaila District Hospital, has a new major theater and a 28 bed inpatient unit.
The next Malawi project Mrs. Singletary had was collating items into Mama Kits. These are bags (similar to layettes for mother and baby, would be given to pregnant women; by the time they have the baby, they would already have basic provisions required. Eight hundred sets were assembled with the assistance from college students from the NYU.
Mrs Singletary did not stop there; always calling to her office so we could strategies on the next project to raise funds and submit them to Malawi. The highlight of our relationship, reached a crescendo when again she called me to her office and told me she had amassed books from the US and wanted to take them to Malawi. There were 50,000.
That is a lot of books, however Mrs Singletary has a vision of bringing joy to children and hear them read from the books; and she believes that that one book has the power to change a multitude of lives.,When the Malawi Mission could not afford to pick up the freight costs, Mrs. Singletary partnered with the United Parcel Service. Under the company’s “Your Wishes Delivered,” Mrs Singletary brought books to Malawi and distributed to primary and secondary students.
My role in this was to connect her with officials in Malawi who would receive the books and facilitate distributing them to the students. In this I was fortunate that Honorable Pateicia Kaliati. She graciously agreed to receive the books, arrange for three to four schools and distribute in the local schools. This was November 2014.
Mrs. Mary Singletary is a teacher, mentor, instructor, coach; she encourages and gives advice. And she’s a powerful resource for organization’s, women and girl. She is a connector: simply put, she brings powerful synergies to any group. Mrs. Singletary is also someone who connects people, creating powerful virtuous cycles of philanthropic excellence.
Other tribute speakers, which reads like a Who’s Who of philanthropists, political figures and members of African countries where Mrs. Singletary, presented Mrs. Singletary with tributes in the form of resolutions.
The tribute speakers were Mary White, Club Sister (BPW)/Friend; New Jersey Senator, Honorable Nia Gill; Assemblywoman Shiela Oliver(Speaker of the House); New Jersey Fourth Ward Councilor of Montclair, Honorable Renee E. Baskerville; Rose Ivy Quarshie, former Secretary General, National Council of Ghanian Associations Inc.
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Mrs Mary Singletary had to be placed in a hospice two weeks after the tribute; and she passed away on July 6, 2017. She was 90 years old.
May her soul rest in God’s eternal loving peace (RIGELP).
Image Mrs Mary Singletary went to her office four times a week till the month she passed away. In her office the day she welcomed Hon Kaliati Image Mrs Singletary with the delegates from African countries she performed her charity work Image Mrs Singletary and janet Karim, they first met when Karim was social development expert at the Malawi Mission to the UN Image Mama Singletary and 50,000 books greeted by a sea of eager students in 2014
The Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Malawi is over 118,000 km2 (45,560 sq. mi) with an estimated population of 16,777,547 (July 2013 est.). Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi’s largest city; the second largest is Blantyre, the third is Mzuzu and the fourth largest is its old capital Zomba. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed “The Warm Heart of Africa”.
Malawi is among the smallest and poorest countries in Africa. Lake Malawi takes about a third of Malawi’s area.
Malawi is among the world’s least-developed countries. Around 85% of the population live in rural areas. The economy is based on agriculture, and more than one-third of GDP and 90% of export revenues come from this. In the past, the economy has been dependent on substantial economic aid from the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other countries. Malawi was ranked the 119th safest investment destination in the world in the March 2011 Euro money Country Risk rankings.
However, for unknown reasons celebrities the likes Tennis Great Roger Federer, Federer who holds several records of the Open Era: holding the world No. 1 position for 302 weeks (including 237 consecutive weeks); [ winning 17 Grand Slam singles titles; reaching each Grand Slam final at least five times (an all-time record); and reaching the Wimbledon final ten times. He is among the eight men (and among the five in Open Era) to capture a career Grand Slam have charities supporting Malawi youth.
Another world known celebrity is Material Girl Madonna. She has adopted Children in Malawi and has been a frequent visitor to the country in the last ten years. At least twice a very year in support of her Charity in the country.
US pop star Madonna Ciccone hugs her adopted daughter from Malawi Mercy James after officially opening a medical facility funded by the singer’s charity organization Raising Malawi on July 11, 2017.Pop star Rihanna
Finally, Robyn Rihanna Fenty a Barbadian singer and songwriter. Born in Saint Michael and raised in Bridgetown, she first entered the music industry by recording demo tapes under the direction of record producer Evan Rogers in 2003. She ultimately signed a recording contract with Def Jam Recordings after auditioning for its then-president, hip hop producer and rapper Jay Z. In 2005, Rihanna rose to fame with the release of her debut studio album Music of the Sun and its follow-up A Girl like Me (2006), which charted on the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard 200 and respectively produced the hit singles “Pon de Replay” and “SOS”. She also has decided to do her charity work in the country.
While other African countries like Swaziland and Kenya are benefiting from promoting tourism, Malawi which as we know has beautiful Lake Malawi which takes about a third of Malawi’s area, has failed to promote tourism by Failing to build structures and transportation to the lake area.
There are many followers of these celebrities who now know about Malawi and would visit places where their idols visit. However, we need to build an adequate Airport and Hotels around our tourist centers.
The Malawi Government should utilize the kindness of these celebrities to grow its tourism and Economy.
US pop star Madonna Ciccone hugs her adopted daughter from Malawi Mercy James after officially opening a medical facility funded by the singer’s charity organization Raising Malawi on July 11, 2017.
Tuesday July 11, 2017, international music maestro, Madonna, took her love relationship with her adopted country Malawi, to the epitome of philanthropic work. On this day, Madonna opened the Mercy James Children’s Hospital at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.
As Malawians, we were all very proud and warmed that Madonna was accompanied to the opening ceremony of this giant children’s Centre, by our President, Professor Peter Mutharika, First Lady Gertrude Mutharika and Vice President Dr. Saulos Chilima. This act by our leaders, gives collective acceptance and ownership of the Mercy David Pediatric Centre.
The Centre is no small section of the QECH, it is not a hastily-built structure jutting up the flat skyline of Ginnery Corner. It is a state-of-the-art Centre of excellence, specifically made for the children of Malawi. The Centre will also be a training centre for doctors, and provide outdoor health facilities for children’s relaxation activities.
This is an output of the Raising Malawi charity organization, which Madonna established when she first came to Malawi and adopted baby David. While many people in and outside Malawi, doubted the wisdom in permitting the boisterous international superstar, we commend Madonna’s tenacity, commitment and most of all her love for the children of Malawi.
She battled and won in and out of court episodes, in her bid to adopt the children: David, Mercy, and recently, the twins.
If there were any Malawians that felt the adoption were dubious, full of high-level tinkering, and all up-to-no-good, on Tuesday, Madonna put a big gob-stopper to those doubts.
It was not just the adoption that some Malawians had problems with; there were also challenges the music icon got embroiled with in the establishment of an academy for girls. The latter led to miles of bad press; the opening of the children’s Centre mutes it all.
In her humility Madonna said she “celebrate(s) the beautiful spirit of inspiration I found in Malawi. I have achieved so many things I never imagined I could do in my life like building a pediatric Centre in Malawi, raising six children four of them Malawians.”
As Malawians, led by the country’s leadership, celebrate the opening of the Mercy James Children’s Hospital at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, we salute you Mama Madonna. We appreciate your magnanimous and generous manner. Most of all, we appreciate you for choosing to love Malawi, for choosing to adopt Malawi children.
Then go down to the threshing floor, but don’t let him know you are there until he has finished eating and drinking. Ruth 3:3
