Vice-President Jane Ansah has delivered a rallying call to people with disabilities across Malawi, urging them to embrace self-reliance rather than depend indefinitely on aid and handouts. The Second Citizen made the appeal at Phalombe Teachers Training College, where she personally distributed relief items to people with disabilities and elderly residents through her charity, the […]
Some local disability organisations in Malawi have pleaded for inclusivity of the persons with disabilities in the newly National Preparedness and Response Strategic Plan which is currently being drafted by The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19. The organisations which are under the Federation of Disability Organisations in Malawi (FEDOMA) and others registered by the Non […]
President Lazarus Chakwera inaugurated the 2020 Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA) Flag Week with a call to all stakeholders to support programmes aimed at promoting the welfare of people with disabilities. Speaking in Mzuzu when he presided over the ceremony, the President said his Government was committed to implementing inclusive programmes to benefit all Malawians, […]
Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati has donated maize flour and other basic necessities to a family with six children with disabilities in Senior Chief Nkoola in Machinga. The minister visited the family after reading the story about the family on social media. In an interview, Kaliati said it was touching […]
Three organisations working on disability issues have jointly embarked on a five-month Covid-19 Response Project to respond to needs of persons with disabilities. Malawi Council for the Handicapped (MACOHA), Malawi Union of the Blind (MUB) and Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) have received K49 million from Christian Blind Mission (CBM) to the tune […]
Vice-President Saulos Chilima has urged Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati that her ministry must work with the Ministry of Justice to lift an injunction on tabling of the Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) Bill Amendment to resolve issues amicably with NGOs. Chilima, , who is also Minister of Economic Planning and Development […]
Human Rights of Women and Girls with Disabilities (HRWGD) – a Malawian registered non-profit and non-governmental (NGO) membership organization of women and girls with disabilities – has lamented exclusion of females with disabilities in the newly constituted Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19. President Peter Mutharika directed that a the taskforce be established to oversee the fight […]
Mzuzu Disability Organization (Mzudo) can breathe a sigh of relief after a well-wisher fought a good fight for the organization and raised K600 000 during a big walk. In an interview Wednesday in Mzuzu, Alex Sakala who organised a big walk said the initiative is going towards positive direction whereby a lot of people within […]
Students from the Chancellor College (Chanco) a constituent college of the University of Malawi have fired a warning shot that they will adopt ‘the HRDC way’ of demonstrations coupled with court litigation if authorities at the institution continue to procrastinate on improving the conditions of students with disabilities at the college. The warning was made during […]
Disability body, Federation of People with Disability in Malawi (Fedoma) has expressed disappointment that out of four people with disability who joined the parliamentary race, no one has made it to the National Assembly. Fedoma’s coordinator Symon Munde said this was a set-back as in the last cohort of members of parliament who were elected […]
Lydia Nyagondwe and her husband Pearson Banda of Mwenilondo in Karonga were happy when they had their first-born daughter in November, 1978. The baby girl, named Safinia, was born strong and charming. Whilst a child, she could not show any signs of sickness up until she turned six and started school. Surprisingly, things started to […]
A 27 year physically challenged woman of Namakhutcha Village, Senior Chief Chikumbu in Mulanje District will now have the liberty to move, thanks to a third year Mulanje Mission nursing student, Patrick Makina who donated two wheelchairs to her. After building a K3 million house for two brothers who lived in the bush for 35 […]
A 23 year old Malawian physiotherapist Charles Nyasa, the driving force behind an exciting movement to get more disabled Malawians to play sports, has received special recognition from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth of Britain with the Commonwealth Point of Light Award. The award has been created to recognise outstanding volunteers that have delivered a significant […]
Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Dr Jean Kalirani has warned that anyone found violating the rights of people with disabilities will bear the consequences of facing the long arm of the law. Kalirani issued the warning on Tuesday when she presided over the launch of the National Disability Mainstreaming Strategy at Bingu […]
When he goes into a shop to purchase something, most shop owners and people alike misconstrue his intention. They mistake him for a beggar. Most often they offer him some alms which he politely – though with a pinch of bitterness – turns down because he is not a beggar. “Nothing pains me more than […]
Malawi stands to benefit from the Southern Africa Federation of the Disabled (SAFOD) Assistive Technology (AT) Information Mapping Project that will enable suppliers and sellers of Assistive Technology to market their products for free. In an email response on Thursday, SAFOD’s Director General, Musa Chiwaula said the organisation has come up with the application to […]
Persons with disabilities in Dowa have heaped praise on a programme Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi is implementing in the district, saying it has changed them from sheer dependent individuals to independent. With the programme, DAPP is giving out either pigs or goats to the disadvantaged for rearing so that they can […]
The Development Communication Trust (DCT) has expressed concern over lack of expertise to help persons with disability in districts hospitals of the country. Speaking in an interview on Thursady on the sidelines of Umoyo Wabwino Project meeting with stakeholders in Salima, the projects officer for DCT, Blessings Phiri said that the situation has heavily affected […]