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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 nutritional therapist who aims at bringing out the best health in others. She...
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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 end of the federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland. The local aviation...
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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 costs during recruitment. When she graduated Chancellor College in...
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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 vice and complimenting government’s efforts to rescue many girls...
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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 to open a chapter on Esnath Kalyati, a retired civil servant whose career and spare time has...
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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 studies department at Catholic University of Malawi. She now heads the department,...
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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 monitoring and evaluation officer at Circle for Integrated Community...
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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 of the country as observed by Girls Empowerment Network (Genet) Malawi. Genet...
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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 have lived and experienced poverty and wellness. She knows what it means...
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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 organisation offering rehabilitation, physiotherapy and nutrition to...
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Halima Twabi: Passionate about science and girls
Halima Twabi has always loved science as a child. She went on to graduate at Chancellor College with a Bachelor of Science Degree and Master of Science in Biostatistics. However, growing up, she heard...
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Alinafe Misomali: Three-time international designer award nominee
Alinafe Misomali is a 30-year-old fashion designer who was born and raised in Blantyre. She went to primary and secondary schools in the commercial city before her parents enrolled her for a course in...
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Tendai Banda: Mentoring youths for a better tomorrow
Tendai Banda is the outgoing national co-ordinator of Youth to Youth Empowerment Network, a grouping of young people mentoring other young people to work hard in their secondary school education and...
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Esnatt Gondwe: Standing in the gap
The loss of her mother to cancer at the age of 17 served as a channel to fuel Esnatt Gondwe’s passion for development. It helped her see that the vulnerability she felt at that age must be greater in...
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Glory Muva: Care for girls campaign founder
For most young girls in the country, lack of sanitary materials during menstruation often leads to school dropouts. For the few who continue with the education, however, menstruation means being absent...
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As someone who has lived in Malawi from as far back as 1966 and seen many youths being victims of HIV and Aids, poor harvests, poor economy and other matters beyond their control, it is not surprising...
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Memory Banda: Advocating girls’ rights
Aged 20, Memory is a globally renowned champion for girls’ rights and an adviser to global leaders on the importance of investing in girls. She was born in a small hospital, Mabulabo, on September 24...
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Chipiliro Mponda: Malawi Hipping Company captain
Her name is Chipiliro Mponda. She is 27, a female excelling in a male dominated field. Mponda is a captain sailing one of the local vessels, the Ilala, across the Lake Malawi. She is the only active...
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Fatima Kalima: Co-founder of a youth disability forum
On November 19 1978, the Kalima family welcomed a new born and they named her Fatima, third born in the family at the time. She grew up like any normal child, until when she was six she began to have...
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Mirriam namanja: executive director of podcam
For most parents, learning about any difficulty or problem in their child’s development comes as a tremendous blow. One parent says the day her child was diagnosed with a disability; she was...
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