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120 women volunteers trained in Blantyre
Women Inspire Foundation- a fast growing female community aimed at helping women and girls realise their full potential- recently trained 120 young women volunteers at College of Medicine in Blantyre....
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Interior design re-defined
Belle Afrique Interior Design, situated at the Uta Waleza Complex in Blantyre is redefining interior designing in the country for homes, offices and shops. Realising the little diversity for household...
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Agnes Nkhata: Director of Timalechi nursery school
A mere look at the faces of underprivileged children at her home village in Embangweni, Mzimba defeated her. Agnes Nkhata, 30, felt she had to do something to help them get proper foundations of...
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Shining among USA college women
Ellen Chilemba, the 23-year-old founder of Tiwale, a Lilongwe community-based organisation (CBO) equipping women with entrepreneurial skills and offering them micro-loans, is one of the 2017 Top Ten...
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School girls on a prestigious US trip
Five girls from secondary schools in Zomba were all smiles as they boarded the plane to the United States of America for a three-week educational exchange under the Pan-African Youth Leadership...
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Barwani Msiska: Young generation leader in family planning
Barwani Msiska, 30, is the only Malawian among the first lot of winners of the 120 Under 40 New Generation of Family Planning Leaders. These 2016 winners of the Bill and Melinda Gates Institute for...
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Pamela Kuwali: National director for Cisanet
Pamela Kuwali, the new broom at the Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) believes there is a lot of untapped potential in the agriculture sector. She always hoped to assume a position of...
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Staying in an unhappy marriage
People often talk about everything that is wrong in their marriages, but they remain undecided on whether to leave or not. Discussing why people stay in unhappy marriages on social media last week, one...
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Faith versus traditional conception
People will argue that some instances in life make it justifiable to explore every avenue of possible healing. Seeking treatment from witch doctors is a common practice in most African cultures and...
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Nullifying gender bariers for better tomorrow
Tradition has witnessed girls and women seeking feminine roles in society including, their choices of careers. This has been largely to fulfill expectations laid down by stereotypes that expect a woman...
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Natasha Tonthola: Rescuing girls from social ills
She is widely known for her participation in the 2013 race for the Big Brother Africa prize money. The confident and easy going former housemate Natasha Tonthola is now an activist for women’s and...
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Cecilia Khofi: The 2017 Miss Malawi Beauty Pageant winner
Managing the country’s population needs innovation and as the organisers of this year’s Miss Malawi Pageant observed, the population growth needs young people such as beauty queens to champion issues...
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Women entrepreneurs bank on networking
“Do it, do not just keep it in your mind, but do it!” Belle Afrique Beauty Spa founder Lee Chisale said as she shared about her business journey with hundreds of women entrepreneurs that came together...
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HHI girls interact with career women
Ukani Malawi, a non-profit youth led organisation based in Blantyre, recently engaged girls at HHI Secondary School, exposing them to various careers they could get into in future. Dr. Diana Jere, a...
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Women’s lives improve from cooperative
Elizabeth Zambezi is the proud owner of a Digital Satellite Television (DSTV); has built a house with iron sheets, has 35 guinea fowls and 10 goats. She is a member of Community Savings and Investments...
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Deliwe Makata: Founder and executive director of Women Inspire
For Deliwe Makata, a final year Chancellor College student, empowering young women and girls does not imply that one is making the woman fight to be equal to the man. “In my understanding of the nature...
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Letting go after tragedy
It was her fourth wedding anniversary and Helen from Chirimba Township in Blantyre had just spoken to her husband confirming their dinner plans. But as she arrived home from work, she got a phone call...
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‘More yet to be done about fistula’
Women are losing their marriages. Not because they could not handle their marriages well, but because they had a condition their husbands could not stand. This is a condition that makes them produce...
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The case of a step child
Aged 29, Violet is a stepmother to an 11-year-old daughter. She thinks her step daughter is the typical spoilt ‘daddy’s girl’ who always has everything her way from the time her mother walked away six...
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Dr. Mathilda Chithila-Munthali: Outgoing chief executive officer for Nche
Dr. Mathilda Chithila-Munthali is the outgoing chief executive officer for the National Council for Higher Education (Nche), an organisation that among other things looks at issues of college...
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