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Sorting out long walks to school
Three interventions—use of bicycles, self-boarding and boarding service provided by schools—seem to be too little a solution to long-walks to…
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Saving peers from early motherhood
It is Wednesday afternoon and it is scorching hot at Lulanga Health Centre in Sub-Traditional Authority (STA) Lulanga in Mangochi.…
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When disability ain’t inability
They had nothing to do and nowhere to seek help. Everyone in society regarded them as unimportant, they say.…
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Saved by a refugee camp
Rosa Sandra was woken by a loud noise. Then she heard another loud bang and got up to look…
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Decent shelter for people with albinism
People of Kachewere Village in Sub-Traditional Authority (ST/A) Masache in Chikwawa District will always remember March 3 2017 when…
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Towards zero open defaecation
As Malawi joins the world today in commemorating World Toilet Day, our reporter ALBERT SHARRA, analyses Malawi’s performance in…
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Coping with long distance to access education
In this second part of the series, ALBERT SHARRA looks at how students and schools serving students living over 20…
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Ugly face of teen pregnancies
On November 1 2018, 15-year-old Sovenia Yusuf lay writhing in agony in a maternity wing at Lulanga Health Centre in…
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No easy road for entrepreneurs
At the age of 28, married with one child, Kondwani Kossam is one of the young men who said…
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Silent cry of a nandolo farmer
It is the onset of the 2017/18 rainy season and farmers are busy preparing their gardens hoping for a…
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Fears of the next deluge
A bleak forecast has sparked anxiety and uncertainties in the Shire Valley, where 2015 floods ripped homes, displaced millions…
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Droughts, floods and hunger
Henga Valley in Rumphi has been a food basket for many years. Despite the rich alluvial soils from neighbouring…
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Long walk to school: Tales from rural areas
In 1999, Ministry of Education Science and Technology announced a revolutionary policy, which converted scores of Malawi Distance Education Centres…
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Another side of by-laws
Times have become rough for guardians of schoolgirls who get pregnant or marry young. By-laws and fines are part of…
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Restoring women’s glory
Every day, Monica Mwale, 23, sets off for work to Bwaila Fistula Care Centre in Lilongwe. The woman from…
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Total switch to solar power
A petroleum firm has made a pioneering step from just talking about renewable energy to doing something about it,…
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Why did a surgeon weep?
The birth of Catherine Sandifolo’s forth-born child Alinafe on July 3 2014 was a trying moment. Her husband of…
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Solar energy rekindles farmers’ hopes
It is 8am when we arrive in Mwalija Village, a floodplain in Chikwawa District where gushing water from Lake Malawi…
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Overcoming trachoma
As roosters crowed, Jenala Phiri, 37, woke up to another bad day. She cursed daybreak not because she was…
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Dry clinic gets sunshine
Solar power has brought water, light and hope to a rural health centre in Nkhata Bay West which serves 30…
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