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Yamiko Kawale: Founder of Girls Empowerment and Mentorship (GEM)
As a secondary school teacher, 33-year-old Yamiko Kawale has witnessed social injustices and challenges girls go through following sexual assaults perpetrated by their teachers or fellow students. “I...
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FAITH KALONGA: LEADING YOUTHS IN HIV/AIDS BATTLE
Tell me about yourself I am a 30-year-old young woman living with HIV and a single mother to an 8-year-old child. I work as an administrative assistant at Coalition of Women Living with HIV and Aids...
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Peggy Ngwira: The farm enthusiast and business success
When Peggy Ngwira, 43, saw an opportunity in pig farming and decided to buy land at Likuni in Lilongwe. She established Faggy Investments, an enterprise that rears and sells pigs, chicken and fish....
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Tionge Munthali: The Miss Malawi 2018
Life took a different turn for 24-year-old Tionge Munthali on April 28 when she was crowned Miss Malawi 2018 at the Bingu International Conference Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe. “I am still in shock! (she...
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Matilda Phiri: The award winning author
For 30-year-old award winning author Matilda Phiri, passion for writing traces back to the love of folktales in her primary school days at Misesa in Blantyre. “I loved folktales. My mother used to tell...
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Tikhala Itaye: Chairs She Decides Global Movement
After dropping out of Wits University in South Africa in 2011 due to financial constraints, Tikhala Itaye worked to support her studies. Her father was going through some challenges at the time and her...
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Margaret Ali: Upholding children and women’s rights
The women and children rights activist was born Margaret Todd, the only child of a Malawian mother Allena Kadammanja and a Scottish father, James Todd. She is former Member of Parliament (MP) who went...
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Chifuniro Ndelemani: traditional leader who has returned to school
Without education, most girls end up in early marriages or early motherhood, spending their lives in poverty. But with education, they are able to improve their own lives and those of their families,...
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Omega Mitinda: An Iconic Innovator
Her diminutive stature can be deceiving, but Omega Mitinda is a rare combination of brains and beauty. The Fourth Year biomedical engineering student at the Malawi University of Science and Technology...
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Chikondi and Mwanaisha – Malawi’s female audiologists
For a long time, 39-year-old Mwanaisha Phiri’s parents worked in the mines in Zimbabwe. She and her three siblings were born in that country. She comes from Mponda Village, Traditional Authority (T/A)...
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Esther Longwe: The first MDF helicopter pilot
With the vast majority of pilots in the world being men, it never occurred to 28-year-old Esther Muselema Longwe that she would fly a helicopter sooner. But it had always been her dream to grace the...
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Chikondi Mlozi: Turning lives around
For Chikondi Mlozi, 24, being born to a teenage mother in the early 1990s meant her growing up in her grandparents’ home. She became the last born in the family of 11 children and spent a good number...
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Joyce Mvula awarded for great performance
Head coach for top England netball outfit Manchester Thunder, Karen Greig once commented that when Malawi’s 24-year-old netballer Joyce Mvula is on her game, she is unstoppable. It is no wonder that...
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Martha Theu – MDF’s only female aviation mechanic
Many girls and young women come from families that would expect them to go for what they take as traditional feminine careers, which often turn out to be health care, teaching or administrative work....
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Edith Amin-Kankhulungo: Among Obama Leaders, Africa
In July 2018, 35-year-old Edith Amin-Kankhulungo found herself at the inaugural Obama Leaders Africa Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa where she was able to learn from some of the world’s movers...
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Loveness Gunda: Champions health care for key populations
Loveness Bowa-Gunda, a health care service provider who works with Youth Net and Counselling (Yoneco), was recently awarded the Me and My Healthcare Provider Award at the 22nd International Aids...
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Generose Dziko: Founder of Tingathe Women Development Programme
According to Generose Ndalami Dziko, there are many lending institutions that help businesspersons. However, she says most of them shun rural women, hence, her rising up to bridge such a gap. The...
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Catherine Kita: Founder of Women for Social Change
Born in Chitipa, 23 years ago, Catherine Kita is a young leader passionate about women, girls empowerment and youth leadership. Having worked for Girls Empowerment Network (Genet), TNM, One Acre Fund...
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Mphatso Chiphwanya: Special Olmpics star tennis player
Her friends and tennis playmates call her Genuine for her good English, but her birth name is Mphatso Chiphwanya. She is the only Special Olympics tennis player in the country. Flashback: Chiphwanya(C)...
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Lucia Mbulaje: The hypertension advocate
‘‘I saw an old man sitting afar, next to his wife’s bed. He asked me to do something. He said; ‘I am ready to give all my body parts only if you can save my wife.’ I went closer, his wife was...
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