Overview

The Hunger Project in Malawi mobilizes rural communities to achieve the sustainable end of hunger through the epicenter strategy - an integrated, bottom-up, gender focused strategy through which people meet all their basic needs.

With the partnership of the 1997 Africa Prize laureate, Joyce Banda, The Hunger Project began its work in Malawi in 1998. The Hunger Project-Malawi has six epicenters in the southern province of Malawi (click here for map):

Initiatives at the epicenters

Each epicenter in Malawi includes all epicenter programs - yet in Malawi, certain key programs are particularly important:

• In these drought prone area, a key element of the epicenter strategy are community food banks.  During the first quarter of 2006, food banks operating in the first four epicenters contained 83 tons of grain, and served more than 4,000 people.
• In a country with very limited health care and high rates of HIV/AIDS and malaria, THP-Malawi conducts training of traditional birth attendants, mobilizes animators to provide bed-nets and implements rural Africa's first HIV/AIDS Voluntary Counseling and Testing program.

Rowlands Kaotcha serves as The Hunger Project-Country Director. Click here for a full chronology of reports.