Youths find gold in agriculture
When growing up, Mercy Chimkunda Phiri, 30, wanted to become a journalist. The fame and adventure of travelling to places...
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Escaping GBV through economic empowerment
Fyness Gwirima, 27 (not her real name), describes her life before 2017 as a series of sorrowful episodes due to...
What makes Mpata smile?
Three years ago, Janet Mpata, 26, from Mwamadi Village in Mulanje was neither a food producer nor in charge of...
Justice for defiled teen
A 13-year-old girl in Rumphi is nursing fragments of a shattered dream after being defiled by a married man almost...
Counting gains from Lake Chilwa
Today is the World Wetlands Day. Our Contributor CHARLES MKOKA highlights the benefits communities surrounding Lake Chilwa are reaping from...
Young people leading on climate change, population growth
Just 85 kilometres south of Malawi’s capital, the impact of global warming is abundantly clear. Hunger is becoming increasingly common...
Taking cancer screening to rural communities
It is Saturday morning at Ndamera Health Centre in Nsanje District. Senior community health nursing technician Evelyn Zambasa is standing...
A trip to Ngabu with Chamaca
It was very hot in Chikwawa on that Sunday morning when a group of journalists joined Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital’s...
Pushing against all odds
Dyless Mkumbira from Mchinji District ventured into business when her university dreams were shattered due to poverty. She says: “My...
Hope for small-scale farmers
Despite being an agrarian economy, Malawi struggles so much in providing sustainable markets for her farmers. The worst-hit farmers are...
Cashing in on mdonthera
Life has been unbearable for Immaculate Mtsukunyika from Mndolera in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Dzoole in Dowa District....
Solving Malawi’s water, energy challenges
Meat Masters Butchery is one of the reliable sources of meat and meat products for the residents of Senti Township...
Enabling access to justice
In late September 2020, Vincent, 17, from Chembe Village, Traditional Authority (T/A) Kambwiri in Salima was arrested alongside an older...
When employers are parasites
In many workplaces in Malawi, workers are suffering the whipping of their minds, bodies and souls at the hands of...
Community addresses child marriages
Martha Chikumbutso, 18, is one of the girls in the area of Senior Chief Liwonde in Machinga District who returned...
Bafuta fights malnutrition
Signs were all over Bafuta Village in Mulanje South East that the community was sick. Women and children looked pale....
Sorting school woes wholesale
Fargrace Mikwamba, chairperson for the mother group, will tell you how thorny matters of menstruation were at Lirangwe Primary School...
Sexual violence continues to haunt women, girls
When her parents died, Marriam Phiri from M’noloma Village, Traditional Authority Pemba in Salima, aged 12 at the time, went...
Double standards persist
Malawi’s forests are disappearing faster than they are being replenished, but neither police barricades nor seizing charcoal is keeping the...
Women shed dependency
Like most Malawian women, Chrissie Majanga grew up being told that a woman is only good in the kitchen and...
