Development
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Mobile lessons ease access to health care
In most rural parts of Malawi, sick villagers have to walk several kilometres to the nearest hospital, in the process…
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Promoting girls’ education
Tiyanjane Chafungatira from Ndenguma Village in Nsanje dropped out of school at the age of 14 because her single mother,…
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Social cash transfer amid Covid
Forty-six-year-old Eliza Santo of Nchilamwera Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Nchilamwera in Thyolo, never imagined that she could withstand deepening poverty…
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Water ups war on Covid
Frequent sights of people washing hands before entering Mwanza District Hospital personify improved water supply in the southern border strip.…
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Cities get solar streetlights
For 20 years, Grace Nduli, 50, has been selling tomatoes, onions and cassava at Zomba Central Market. Until 2017, the…
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Water means business
For two decades, Rose Mizere has been running a restaurant in the border town of Mwanza along the road to…
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What’s in world’s first 3D-printed school?
When Malawians in Mcheza Village woke up on November 26 last year, they were in awe of a new structure…
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As cotton yield grows, farmers feel neglected
They got lured into growing the new but expensive cotton variety after all the talk and demonstrations by scientists that…
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‘Women still few in public jobs’
A new report by UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Pittsburgh finds women’s leadership is being undercut by glass…
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Jesuits boost rural livelihoods
At 79, group village head Chimbalu of Kasungu is soft-spoken, but with uncharacteristic charm and big ambition. His vision is…
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