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Students looped on reproductive health
Carol Gonawamba, a fourth-year engineering student at the Malawi Polytechnic now appreciates the significance of screening for different reproductive cancers. She got the insights from a sexual and...
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Media women in leadership training
Cohorts for the 2017/18 Women in News (WIN) media leadership programme have spoken well of the Reshaping Media Leadership summit that took place in Nairobi, Kenya in the past week. The three day summit...
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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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Life after early motherhood
Being a teenager is hard enough, but it gets even more challenging with a pregnancy and all efforts of caring for a child as well as parenting. Since most young mothers would still be in secondary...
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Nurses to walk 407 km for maternal health
Improved Midwifery Care Access Initiative (Imcai) Malawi has joined the What Women Want global advocacy campaign to strengthen health systems, improve quality maternal and reproductive healthcare for...
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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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Patricia Nangozo-Kainga
Zomba Central MP In the run up to the 2019 Tripartite Elections, Every Woman has introduced a 50-50 Campaign Slot page. This page is meant to promote female parliamentary aspirants and activityies or...
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Female aspirants hail lawyers’ support
Female members of Parliament (MPs) are pleased with lawyers who, through the Malawi Law Society (MLS) have pledged to support them. Lack of legal representation for women was one of the biggest...
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‘Malawi, Japan lag in gender equality’
When a baby comes, women normally ululate, but the ululations are louder and longer when the newborn is a boy. And, when growing up, girls are heaped with household chores as boys go about playing....
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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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Esther Jailosi-Jolobala
History was made in Machinga East Constituency during the 2014 tripartite elections when Esther Jailosi-Jolobala became the first female Member of Parliament (MP) to represent the area after 50 years...
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Topping support for sex workers rights
Faith, 37, started sex work at the age of 12. She had no choice, but to walk right into it following the death of her parents. Being the first born, with two siblings, Faith assumed he parents’ role of...
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Tailoring offers hope to 31 women
At eight years, Efinesi Samuti lost her mother. Two years later in 2005, she became an orphan when her father too, passed away. She and her three siblings went to live with their grandmother who relies...
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Esther Mcheka-Chilenje
In the run up to the 2019 Tripartite Elections, Every Woman has introduced a 50-50 Campaign Slot page. This page is meant to promote female parliamentary aspirants and activities or events in line with...
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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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Aisha Mambo-Adams – Mangochi Nkungulu Constituency
You have nothing to lose when you show humanity, Aisha Mambo-Adams, Member of Parliament (MP) for Mangochi Nkungulu notes. She considers it a blessing to have been approached by people from her...
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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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