eMas' Korner; More from Malawi

In my previous post I shared more about women from my community, Chitete. And I tried to give some detailed account of the endeavors that these women are involved in here. Well, for those that run some small scale businesses, Zalewa turn-off is a must go destination so that they can capitalize on the many customers who invade the market on market days like today, Tuesday and Saturdays.  Well, ever since I came here I have always been bothered by many thoughts, many thoughts on how I can help to transform the lives of the women here. Honestly, in as much as there are those women who are busy running up and down with various entrepreneurship activities, many women do not involve themselves in some activities that might in turn uplift them socioeconomically. I cited an example of the only woman who owns a small retail shop in the village and some who run various other activities like selling sugarcane and other local fruits. Not many of these women own and or run more sustainable b...

Besides working with primary school kids at Chitete Primary school, over the past three months and some weeks, I have spent my time interacting and working with Chitete women. I must confess that my stay in this community has been quite amazing so far, and indeed this is my other home. My early days in the community saw me encountering various remarkable works by these women in this community, from a young mother who is taking advantage of the Out of School Initiative (OOSC) to reshape her future through free education provided by our development partner, buildOn to an old woman who caught my attention by cultivating a quite big piece of land that probably is above her strength all by herself. All in all I must say, these women are focused, hard-working, humble, energetic and development-hungry. I have been involved in a series of few meetings with these women on various topics like that of Agriculture, entrepreneurship, house-keeping, sanitation and education.  Day to day lif...

Well, I must admit I have been missing for a while. The past weeks have been tiring and busy for me.  My students and I have been busy with lessons and a number of activities that we were doing. As a comeback post, allow me to share with you my sincere joy and gratitude to the newly appointed Art of Giving Ambassador for Malawi , Miss. Winnie Mwamsamali who paid my school an unforgettable visit on 17th May 2016.  On this day May 17 2016, was Art of Giving celebration Day and different nations in Africa and countries in Asia took time to celebrate art of giving  as they touched lives of the vulnerable communities through giving and spending time with such communities (you can read more through this link;  http://www.artofgiving.co.uk) . The theme for this day was Education for All . In Malawi, the ceremony  took place on at  my school Chitete Primary.  You might wish to know that my school has about 97 pupils with only Standard One to Standa...