Episode
Beyond the Spreadsheets: Malawi Site Visit Days 5 and 6
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- GiveWell Conversations
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- Oct 30, 2025
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- 1951
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Summary
Our Beyond the Spreadsheets mini-series lets you ride along with our leadership team on their recent weeklong site visit to Malawi. Recorded daily during the trip, the series shares the behind-the-scenes experience of a GiveWell site visit through real-time reflections and clips of conversations. On day five, the GiveWell team visited a school in Lilongwe, where they spoke with school representatives and families of students in a nearby urban settlement. On day six, the GiveWell team stopped at a major hospital in Lilongwe to hear from hospital staff and an implementing partner about the impact of foreign aid funding cuts. New to the series? Start with day one here. Throughout the week, the team visited health clinics, schools, and local villages to speak with healthcare workers and community members who shared a glimpse into their lives. This mini-series offers a candid, day-by-day account of our learning process and some of the new insights and questions that will inform our future research. This episode was recorded on August 3 and 4, 2025 during GiveWell's site visit to Malawi and represents our best understanding at that time.