First Lady Monica Chakwera has commended humanitarian efforts by Muslim World League (MLW) for their continued contribution to the socioeconomic development of Malawi over the last two decades. Madam Chakwera made the applaud on Saturday at Bingu International Convention Centre in Lilongwe where she presided over a handover ceremony of symbolic cheque worth K1 billion […]
A group of young women whose purpose is to create a safe environment for children particulary young girls in Malawi called Mthunzi Network will on Saturday be selling various items in a bid to raise money towards a fund for purchasing Covid-19 personal protective equipment for Tilinanu Orphanage in Area 49, Lilongwe. The jumble sell […]
Senior Malawi Defence Force (MDF) soldier, Colonel Desmond Chawanda, together with the Chikapa family over the weekend donated assorted items worth K1.4 million to Adziwa Orphanage Centre in the capital Lilongwe. Some of the items donated included bags of maize, bales of sugar, bales of salt, cartons of soap, vaseline, note books, cooking oil and […]
One of Malawi’s business mogul Shiraz Ferreira has pledged that he will bankroll K300 million to support orphans and vulnerable children in the country to go to school. Ferreira, who is the managing director of SF International, said entrepreneurs have a duty to support orphans and vulnerable children, saying his company wants to do that […]
One of the country’s tobacco buying and processing companies Alliance One Tobacco Malawi Limited has donated various school materials to Adziwa Orphanage Center based at the high density location of Kauma in Lilongwe worth over MK2.3 million. Some of the donated materials included Alliance One branded schools bags, footballs and netballs as well as goal […]
Zambezi Evangelical Church youths in Lilongwe urban on Thursday donated assorted items worth more than K700 thousand to about 490 orphans and the elderly of Comfort Orphan Disability and Elderly Care (CODEC) at Msundwe in the district. The youth, referred to by the church as Fellowships of Youth (FOY), comprised the youth from Kawale, Likuni, […]
A senior Malawi Defence Force (MDF) officer currently based in Gaborone, Botswana under Southern Africa Development Community,Colonel Desmond Chawanda and his family,on Sunday 24 December 2017 splashed different Christmas gifts to orphans based at Adziwa Orphanage Centre in the area of Senior Group Village Headman Kauma in Lilongwe. Adziwa Orphanage is a centre for over 500 […]
Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare has suspended implementation of a bursary scheme created to support poor and orphaned learners effectively raising fears of a bleak future for the needy children. Salima District Council social welfare officer Honest Kayira, made the revelation at Kanongola Full Primary School on Sunday during an interface meeting between duty-bearers […]
Malawi Defence Force (MDF) officer Lieutenant Connell Desmond Chawanda has made a donation of assorted items both food and non food material worth K450, 000, to Adziwa orphanage in Lilongwe. Some of the donated items include; 40 bags of maize,5 bales of sugar,4 bales of salt,4 cartons of Butex Soap,4 cartons of U- fresh Soap, Vaseline […]
Msundwe Community in Lilongwe, 40 kilometers from Lilongwe City Center, on the Lilongwe – Mchinji Road, wore a sombre mood last Saturday when they woke up to sad news that four orphans at Comfort Children’s Home (Orphanage) had perished in an inferno that gutted down a boys room at the orphanage that night. Innocent Paul, […]
Malawi’s leading mobile network operator TNM has donated assorted items worth K1 million to Tisungane faith-based organisation in the area of Traditional Authority Nsanama in Machinga district. The donation was in response to a request from the organization, which falls under Saint Martins Deborres Parish of the Catholic Church. Speaking during the donation, TNM Head […]
In a very rare move by churches in Malawi, Msonkhamanja CCAP in the city of Lilongwe last Saturday gave a special Christmas and new year present to a young couple who are orphans by sponsoring their wedding which otherwise would not have taken place because the couple and those looking after them are impoverished. The […]
The management for the Jacaranda School for Orphans in Malawi’s commercial capital Blantyre recently hosted a party for its students as it closed for Christmas and New Years Day holidays. Around 500 people including students, staff members and others from surrounding areas attended the event, which was held at the school’s premises in Chigumula area. […]
The smiles on the faces of these excited children at the Abundant Life Center in Mitundu, Lilongwe, enjoying a special Christmas party hide the sadness behind them. The Abundant Life Center is a community driven organization that supports and care for 500 children in Mitundu in Traditional Authority Chiseka, Lilongwe. On Saturday they attended a […]
The Joyce Banda Foundation International (JBFI) on Monday, December 15, 2014, donated hundreds of 50 KG bags of maize and blankets to students of Msigalira Free Secondary School for Orphans in Domasi,Zomba. A senior JBFI official, Rosemary Nhlema, who was the guest of honour at the event, said the donation was part of this year’s […]
Staff from Opportunity Bank of Malawi (OBM) on Saturday, November 8, 2014 took time off their official business schedules to interact with orphans, guardians and management of Adziwa Orphanage located at Kauma in Lilongwe, where they also donated K400,000 worth of food stuffs. The donated items included 100 Blankets, 25 (50kg) bags of maize, two […]
Malawi High Commissioner to Britain designate, Dr Hetherwick Ntaba has called for the establishment of a U.N. World Orphans Day. Ntaba, 72, made the call in Korea where he went to attend a high-level forum on the subject organized by the Korea Soongsil Kongsaeng Social Welfare Foundation, a civic organization. The foundation is behind the […]
Two Malawian female students from Jacaranda Orphan School in Blantyre are expected to leave the country for Scotland and Austria where they have been invited to perform. Founder of the school, Marie Da Silva, said Joyce Mtepa, 13-year-old and her colleague, Vanessa Litta, 12, will first perform in Scotland this Sunday, November 10, during a Mary’s Meals Day […]