Malawi

While progress has been made in limiting the scope of the disease in Africa, climate change is expanding the range of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, putting populations at risk that haven’t previously been exposed. Malaria remains one of the world’s leading killers,...

In Malawi, The Hunger Project partners with like-minded organizations to combat malaria by implementing community-led, transformative programs. The Hunger Project-Malawi recently reflected on its anti-malaria work, which includes trainings to build capacity among community health workers.

Champiti and Ligowe Epicenters in Malawi have now graduated to a phase of “sustainable self-reliance,” which means that these communities have demonstrated the confidence, capacity and skills to act as agents of their own development.

With the facilitation of The Hunger Project-Malawi, World Vision-Malawi and Heifer-International Malawi, 18 national and international NGOs have established the Malawi chapter of the Movement for Community-led Development (CLD). This is the first international chapter...

Devastating floods and a detrimental weather pattern have caused a severe food crisis in Malawi. Tens of millions of people have been affected across Southern Africa, and Malawi is facing its worst food crisis in a decade with 2.8 million people at risk of hunger.

The Millennium Challenge Account – Malawi (MCA -Malawi) has awarded The Hunger Project a three-year US$519,000.00 grant to implement the “Environment and Natural Resources Management” project aimed at sustainability and increasing the efficiency of Malawi’s hydropower generation.

In order to help educate the public and promote female condom use in Malawi, The Hunger Project facilitated the third annual Global Female Condom Day on September 16, 2015. Read on to see how the important day was celebrated.

The Hunger Project-Malawi worked tirelessly with communities to scale up nutrition programs and launch new initiatives.

In a great partnership between The Hunger Project-Sweden and The Hunger Project-Malawi, a team of visitors from PostCode Lottery visited Kachindamoto Epicenter in Malawi last month. PostCode Lottery, a lottery designed to raise funds for organizations “who work for a better world,” is a key part of The Hunger Project’s investor family in Sweden.

In April, The Hunger Project and partner organization SUPPORT amplified their work to increase demand, access and use of female condoms in Malawi.

THP-Malawi finished the construction of Majete Epicenter. Several staff undertook learning visits to partner countries and HIV/AIDS animators were trained in new workshops focused on the factors in the spread of HIV.

THP-Malawi strengthened its monitoring and evaluation program with trainings in new methods of data collection: iForm builder software on iPod Touch devices. The epicenter also hosted a national launch of the “16 Days of Activism” campaign aimed at ending gender-based violence which brought different institutions and people together.

While progress has been made in limiting the scope of the disease in Africa, climate change is expanding the range of malaria-carrying mosquitoes, putting populations at risk that haven’t previously been exposed. Malaria remains one of the world’s leading killers,...

In Malawi, The Hunger Project partners with like-minded organizations to combat malaria by implementing community-led, transformative programs. The Hunger Project-Malawi recently reflected on its anti-malaria work, which includes trainings to build capacity among community health workers.

Champiti and Ligowe Epicenters in Malawi have now graduated to a phase of “sustainable self-reliance,” which means that these communities have demonstrated the confidence, capacity and skills to act as agents of their own development.

With the facilitation of The Hunger Project-Malawi, World Vision-Malawi and Heifer-International Malawi, 18 national and international NGOs have established the Malawi chapter of the Movement for Community-led Development (CLD). This is the first international chapter...

Devastating floods and a detrimental weather pattern have caused a severe food crisis in Malawi. Tens of millions of people have been affected across Southern Africa, and Malawi is facing its worst food crisis in a decade with 2.8 million people at risk of hunger.