Chilima challenges Malawians to rethink the future of the nation
State Vice President Dr. Saulos Klaus Chilima has challenged Malawians to turn the social and economic hardships Malawi is currently going through as opportunities for rethinking the new direction of the nation.
Chilima emphasized that it is not only money that matters to develop a nation; hence, Malawians need to see inadequacies in their current thought processes and believe that there are better solutions to their problems.
The Vice President made the remarks at the results celebration of the World Connect Malawi’s locally led development programme. The celebration took place at the Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe.
Chilima observed that many Malawians limit their own scope for ingenuity by the mistaken belief that to achieve personal and collective progress, having a lot of money is all that matters.
“As Malawians we need to be dissatisfied with the status quo and move away away from the ndimomwe zimakhalira or sizingatheke mind set. Nothing is impossible! We need to change the way we think and conduct business in order to achieve new results,” he said.
Chilima said it was pleasing to note that World Connect Malawi’s activities, programmes and approaches have been aligned with Malawi’s visions as well as the country’s approach to development as guided by the Malawi 2063 (MW2063) document.
He said World Connect has demonstrated to be a true champion of the local development philosophy and their results demonstrate the power and capacity of what communities can achieve if they take charge of their own development.
“I am impressed to note that World Connect Malawi’s projects are inclusive such that 95% of the projects that were implemented achieved all community agreed goals. These initiatives contribute significantly to closing the gender and empowerment divide because 83 percent of the projects are being led by women. These undertakings are also benefiting the girl-child. Under some projects we have seen increased access to clean and safe drinking water not only reducing recurrence of water borne diseases but also time spent by the girl child in fetching water,” he said.
Chilima further said the government was impressed because World Connect does not call itself a donor, but rather a partner who co-invests directly in the ideas of local communities and organizations to drive self-sustaining development in their communities.
He said the World Connect’s achievement ably demonstrates that strategy and tactics are just as important as resources.
“World Connect Malawi has registered less than 1% of grant funds loss to theft or fraud even though 70 percent of projects are led by first-time grant recipients. Additionally, World Connect interventions have largely contributed to self-reliant communities by encouraging co-investment in community-driven initiatives using locally available resources. These achievements bring high honour and pride to this country and strengthen the partnership we have with the United States of America,” he said.
World Connect Malawi board chairperson Tamara Chirwa thank the government for creating a conducive environment for the growth of the private sector.
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In Singapore, it is illegal for the Government to borrow for consumption, it is only allowed for investment in revenue generating assets.
What revenue generating asset have we as a nation invested in in the past year?
As a result we build a national debt which has no corresponding income generating assets. Our economic model is completely wrong and criminal if you ask me.
Ankolo do the work. That’s why we pay you. Osamatiwuza zopusa zokuti, anabetha, anachanza, ogama, ndi osibweni should start thinking. Kumeneko ndiye kupusa.
Its obvious now that Chilima doesn’t understand the role of government in improving citizens social economic statuses. All he talks about is mindset change. Govt policies have high effects on both aggregate demand and supply side effects, citizens behaviours have little effect on economic growth with govt interventions.
One wonders why Chilima wants to be a president so bad if he has no vision for the country. A country is different to a company, it’s doesn’t get run on profit maximisation mindset and behaviour economics. Disappointed
Make us change our mindset. Bingu did change people’s mindset by action not words.
Ngat mwasowa zonena kungokhala basi ,muziuzana komwa mowa konko ndichakwera wanuyo kapena konyamura dzitsulo anthu oipa inu osaganizira amalawi bola mimba zanu zikukula midzaotchedwa afis inu
Well said. He & his cohorts are the right persons to guide the nation to implement this philosophy.
he speaks like he is a backbencher not a state vice president; his adminstration has never provided platforms for social economic progress. our needs infrastructures to spur economic progress to uplift our from extreme poverty. even our education standard is too low.
Awa A Malawi azawamveranso too much Zankamwa.
Ayambanso ma motivational speakers athu. Good at telling Malawians what to do, yet tikudziwa kuti mavuto awa are caused by the same politicians.
May I contribute a little bit on this issue of change of mind set. Honestly speaking Malawians we need to change our of dealing things on the ground. One thing would be to do business for more hours. It has always beaten my mind to see that our shops by 4 pm are getting closed. Our brothers for example here in Uganda do business up even to Midnight. Shops are open and business going on. Why and why should we stop business at 4 or 5 pm. It is embarrassing that our neighbors borders work 24 hours and yet Malawian side we close our borders at 6 pm and only open at 8 am even sometimes at 9 am. What costs the whole nation just to increase the personel to work in shifts for 24 hours like our neighboring countries? It’s still a puzzle. Malawi if we count these hours that the border remains closed and the years how much money have we blocked to enter the country. Mr Vice President Chilima I agree with you 💯 percentage but I may challenge you as a leader which measures r u taking to help Malawians change their mind. You are in charge of Economic Development for the nation what strategies have put in place to help realise your goal. I beg you kindly let the entry points of economy be open for 24 hours. Let you make sure security in the country is assured to let pipo sell their items up to late hours. Our military seem to be rendudant disperse them in our cities to help reinforce security to help run their businesses without fear. Malawi we love you, our mother land we cherish you
Dear Mr Chilima, nobles talks will not bring us further! As long you can not achieve prudence and sanity in our own MDAs through your public sector reform programme, we will not go anywhere! You might have to learn from this World Connect Malawi people, how they realise this positive figures, if they are try! And then implementation and not only nice talks! For example: You visited and promised us so many road projects, either to be completed or started, but on the ground we hardly see anything! Our M1 road is a disgrace….!
A liar, scammer and a cheat! I have lost all faith in this bulutu
Good project for the country
We are still facing Economic challenges despite our mindset change. You really need to change your rules of engagement. I speak on behalf of the pain of the youth in Malawi. It’s easy to talk about mindset change when you are in your position. Think about someone whose mind is being spoiled by how bad and corrupt our environment is and how slow our governments are in creating jobs. I was hoping what you compaigned was going to turn into reality or may be it will. Well there’s a need for speed Period! Concerned Youth, no any affiliation to any party.#youthempowerment
mukulephela kuvomela kuti mwalephela nthawi zonse mind set mind set palibe english ina yomwe munaphunzila dyela lanuli mwawoninga nawo ziko come 2025 tiwone ngati muzayipeze 50+1 munthu wadyeela ngati chilima sindinamuwone kukhala pa mpando safuna kuchoka mcp ikuthothola iwe uyesa akusiyila boma pokhapo ndiye uyiwale
Instead of blaming us for his lies and failures he needs look inside his own alliance and tackle the corruption and nepotism that is now becoming very rampant
How do we rethink the direction of the country when it’s clear to see that corruption and political connections are what matters to get anywhere in this country. I thought the VP would take a stance against these vices, but instead this rubbish continues even as he regurgitates book theories on a daily basis just to sound good and look like he knows what he’s doing. We need this guy to confront the corruption and nepotism that is clearing begging to spring up under this new political dispensation. We need to see progress on the achievement of indicators for socioeconomic growth and development of this country.
A Malawi tikunamizidwa kwabasi. Today its mindset change, tomorrow its change in our development plan without money, today we should capitalize on current hardships in order to develop. Iye akudya Hungarian sausages mmawa koma akufuna ife titukuke in the absence of money. Tell me one person oti anatukuka popanda ndarama?
Chilima dont lie to Malawians . We need money for our survival. Even if you have ideas those ideas can never work if there is no money. You people just like speaking but you dont set the example. All what has made you vice president of two presidents is your appetite for money.
Good. Give the money. And I will buy my colleagues more booze.