The Big Interview
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Marriam Lally: believing in the neglected and downtrodden
Inspired by her experience with children with Cerebral Palsy and Down’s syndrome she met when younger, Marriam Lally initiated an…
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Lessons from poverty
Born and raised in Mzuzu alongside her five sisters and one brother, 27-year-old Eleanor Mphwanthe believes she is privileged to…
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Sawako Nevin: Empowering girls to stay in school
Girls are perceived as inferior, marriage material (brides), weak, unwise and unequal to boys and men in most rural areas…
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Young Madise promoting the girl child
Verepi Madise is a 26-year-old Bachelor of Arts and Humanities graduate from Chancellor College. Apart from her job as a…
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Wezi Sataya: Contributed to legal studies faculty set-up
Wezi Sataya graduated with a law degree at the Metropolitan University in South Africa and formed part of the legal…
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Esnath Kalyati’s burning passion for children
No one in the circles of fighting for the rights of children, women and the elderly in Malawi can struggle…
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T/A Kachindamoto: Will dissovle all child marriages
Child marriages are not a new phenomenon in his country. Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have sprouted in response to fighting the…
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Bertha mambala: creating jobs with ICT
Her motivation lies in creating job opportunities. She makes them easily accessible through the Internet while helping employers cut…
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Flying the Malawi flag high
In September 1967, the now liquidated Air Malawi was established following the dissolution of the Central African Airways at the…
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Marigold Katsande: The nutritional therapist
She came out of a personal life experience to bring hope to others in similar predicaments. Marigold Katsande is a…
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Mwai Kabula
She is a woman who did not allow circumstances to take the best of her. Single mother Mwai Kabula fell,…
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Mary jiyani: Malawian star shining abroad
Mary Jiyani has won two scholarships, the Mandela Rhodes Scholarship and the Rhodes Oxford Scholarship. She is also a final…
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Sheena Namaona: Fountain of ideas
Being multi-talented is a special gift from God that is rarely found in most young people. HOWARD MLOZI engages an…
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Martha gonthi: turned her pain into hope for others
She was defiled at the age of eight, but gradually got up her feet and decided to fight the…
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Mercy mchacha: transforms buildings with her magic
She is an architect and the brains behind the refurbishment of FINCA building countrywide. Her passion for drawing started as…
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Roselyn Makhambera
Roselyn Makhambera is station manager for MIJ FM. She is also a single mother, thriving to deliver the best to…
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Taleka makunje: championing reproductive health for youths
Taleka Makunje is among the youth who won a video contest on youth access to family planning from a worldwide…
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Beatrice chiumia: getting dirty is the centre of her world
Beatrice Chiumia has ventured into an unknown territory, mostly dominated by men. She is a woman who, unlike…
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Annie chikhwaza: founder of kondanani orphanage
Who is Annie Chikhwaza? I was brought up in a poor family in a small village in the north of…
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Faith kabanga: true model for her students
She is surely not the first girl to achieve big things at 23, but Faith Kabanga has a story to…
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