Universal Trading a local Agri-business company in partnership with a Kenya based KingStart Company on Monday donated 25 Money Maker Treadle pumps and Hand Pumps worth K2 million to Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development to be distributed to farmers affected by floods in 15 districts. Speaking after receiving the pumps in Lilongwe, Minister of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, […]
Malawi Agriculture and Food Security Minister Allan Chiyembekeza has said government needs at least e US $16m to distribute seed and other farm inputs in the flood affected areas several thousands of hectares of crop fields were washed away. Government wants to use the money to distribute seed for early maturing food crop and other […]
Bishops of the influential Catholic Church in Malawi will from Tuesday 10 March embark on solidarity visits to flood victims in various parts of the country, acting Secretary General of the Episcopal Conference (ECM) of Malawi, Fr. Emmanuel Chimombo ha said. Fr. Chimombo said the Bishops, led by the ECM Chairman, Archbishop Thomas Luke Msusa […]
The Moravian Church in Malawi, a Pentecostal church, has rolled out a K4.8 million project purported to assist survivors of floods that have rocked most parts of the country. The church, on Saturday, donated relief items worth hundreds of thousand kwacha including flour, salt, cooking oil and beans to flood victims in Zindi Village, Traditional Authority […]
Circle for Integrated Community Development (CICOD) a local organization has secured a Euro 10,000 grant from a German donor, Sign of Hope, intended to nourish 1,350 vulnerable people in 270 households that support elderly people, orphans and the sick in Chikwawa district’s Traditional Authority Lundu’s area. The two week intervention, also targets female headed and child headed […]
Most parts of Salima district have had houses destroyed with hailstorm that hit the area this week rendering at least 55 households homeless. Speaking when parliamentarian for the area, Jessie Kabwila, toured the area Group Village Headman Mwadyakale said the rains fell continuously for just about two hours on Tuesday with hailstorm. “We were fortunate that […]
The Chewa Heritage Foundation (CHEFO) has donated relief items worth K5 million – courtesy of Nu Skin Force for Good Foundation – to newly constructed camps in flood-hit districts of Chikhwawa and Nsanje. CHEFO chairman, Professor Kanyama Phiri, said the Chewa people were equally concerned with the devastation. Kanyama disclosed the donation was made possible […]
World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa is intensifying country support to prevent cholera from reaching internally displaced person (IDP) camps along the border of Malawi and Mozambique. Since January 2015, extensive flooding has caused 230 000 IDPs to live in opportune refugee camps and temporary shelters. As of 2 March 2015, 55 cases of […]
Malawi Government has dedicated this year’s International Women’s Day scheduled on March 5, in Phalombe to women and children who are victims of floods in the 15 districts of the country. Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Patria Kaliati, disclosed this in Lilongwe on Monday at a press briefing on the preparations of […]
The Malawi Asians Organisation-United Kingdom has pledged to build 100 new strong houses for victims of the January, 2015 in worst affected villages. Chairman of MAO-UK Mr. Sony Pandekar made the announcement in Leicester in the United Kingdom during the launch of a joint Malawi Relief Effort fundraising campaign with Sebras Radio on Monday, 2 […]
Malawi government in partnership with its stakeholders has rolled out a Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following devastating floods that hit about 15 districts in the country in January. The exercise started on February 22 and will end this week on March 6. The purpose of PDNA is to assess the socio-economic impact of the floods […]
Unilever Malawi has distributed 400 cases of anti-bacterial brand of Lifebuoy soap valued at MK 12 million to emergency camps in the flooded areas of Nsanje and Chikwawa districts in a bid to curb the spread of germs and any outbreaks of diarrhoea. According to Unilever Malawi Country Manager, Chikondi Ng’ombe, besides contributing soap to […]
The United States-based charity Samarian Purse International Relief is building temporary shelters for families so that they continue living together happily despite trauma caused by floods. Shelter specialist, Chris Kinzer says the charity is planning to build about 400 shelters for displaced families at Nyachilenga Camp in worst hit Nsanje district. “Here at the Nyachilenga […]
Two people have died while 36 others are under treatment following an outbreak of the deadly waterborne disease in Nsanje district. A visit at Ndamera Health Centre in the district on Wednesday where the Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) has mounted a Cholera Treatment Centre, revealed that four of the affected people are members of the same family. […]
There was a sigh of relief on the faces of Nyambadwe and Ndirande flood victims when they received relief items for the first time since the disaster hit them. Department of Disaster Management Affairs donated maize flour, beans and sugar through the Blantyre City Council to victims from Nyambadwe and Ndirande – Gamulani Wards. At […]
An estimated 140.000 Malawians affected by the floods remain in very high need of medical services in the hard-to-reach Nsanje and East Bank areas, with cholera representing the most immediate threat, said the medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (MSF), currently the only medical humanitarian actor responding on in this most affected district in support […]
CCAP Blantyre City Presbytery has donated 64 life straws worth K720 000 to Chimwankhunda disaster victims on Sunday. Almost 64 families now have water purification equipment which can be used for three years on daily basis and does not need power to function. The City Presbytery Chairperson of Partnership King Norman Rudi said they received […]
Following the unprecedented flood disaster which hit Malawi and affected districts mostly in the Southern region of Malawi, three local artists who have been working with the affected communities have released a music video to highlight the plight facing the flood victims and by extension amplifying the message on the need for all and sundry […]