For a number of reasons largely beyond our control 2024 has been a very quiet year for the Trust, which is in stark contrast to last...

It has been a busy Summer and Autumn for the Amalthea Trust. We have had three programs running, eight volunteers placed for two weeks...

Last year the Hilditch Hammer’s, Danny O’Brien, Hilditch Group’s Facilities & Transport Manager and Jamie Howes, their Operations...

Two first time Biomedical Engineer volunteers from the Royal London Hospital, Delroy Gray and Luciano Piccinini, went out to Zambia on...

After more than two years of suspended operations overseas the Trustees have taken the important decision that it is time that the...

The Amalthea Trust ran two more online sessions in February for Evelyn Hone College BME students in Lusaka, Zambia. Both online workshops...

The Amalthea Trust would like to wish all of our partner organisations and volunteers a very happy, successful and above all healthy...

It has been a year now since our previous newsletter came out, and what a year it has been! All of our field operations were put on hold...

On June 30th the EBME Conference 2021 took place at the Milton Keynes Arena in the UK, and it was great to be a part of this big annual...

On Saturday 24th April the Amalthea Trust, in partnership with The Tropical Health Education Trust (THET) and Hilditch Group, conducted...

We have recently been discussing possible applications for the new APP developed by Medical Aid International, which is explained below...

A Happy New Year to all of our partners and volunteers, and of course to anyone else who may be reading this blog post. We all hope very...

Unfortunately all field activities have currently been suspended as we cannot send volunteers out to Uganda, Zambia or anywhere else in...

Martin returned recently from a one week visit to Zambia where he teamed up with representatives from the Tropical Health Education Trust...

Having just returned myself from a one week scoping visit to Zambia for our up-coming new program there in partnership with the Tropical...

Earlier this year a professional film maker followed the work of two of our volunteers for a week at Kyambogo University, and managed to...

July/August saw an unexpected return to Tegbareid college in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Unexpected because the original arrangement between...

Last week we had our usual stand together with Hilditch Group (who paid for it all on our behalf so huge thanks to them!) at the EBME...

Martin Worster, our Programme Director, has recently returned from a short visit to Kyambogo University in the expert company of Ray...

September/October in 2018 saw a team of 6 volunteers head out to Kyambogo University in order to deliver the Autumn semester of practical...

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all of our partner organisations and volunteers a very Happy New Year. We hope that 2019...

This week our Programme Manager, Jas Bilkhu, will be flying out to Uganda once again with a team of volunteers for the start of the...

Two of our most experienced volunteers are getting ready to fly out to Ethiopia for the second installment of the Amalthea Trust'a...

The Trust was represented at the 3 day Global Health Forum in Geneva last week by Martin Worster, who also attended the annual meeting of...

Martin Worster, our Programme Director, has just returned from a visit to Uganda where he has been discussing a number of exciting new...

We hope that the coming year will be a good one for one and all, and with some interesting new projects in the pipeline there should be...

This semester Jas taught the first topics, Electrical Safety Testing and Management of Medical Devices, himself as the relevant volunteer...

Tuesday September 19th saw a group of our volunteers joining us and some of the Hilditch Engineers for our Annual Volunteer's...

Ray Emslie returned from Addis Ababa on 11th August after completing the second two-week stint at the Training-of-Trainers Programme at...

Martin Worster joined BBC Radio West yesterday evening for a brief account of the work of the Amalthea Trust. It was part of a series of...

Last week Martin flew to Uganda to represent the Amalthea Trust at the very first National Biomedical Engineering Conference to be held...

On 11th December last year Mike Hilditch and Martin Worster flew to Paris to attend the above conference called by THET and HUMATEM to...

Another email from a student updating us on great progress being made.

The Amalthea Trust was delighted to receive an email from one of our recent graduates informing us that...