UK provides income relief to Malawi families affected by remittance from SA due to Covid-19
Malawi is among five countries in the southern Africa to benefit from £7 million (about K7.2 billion) British Government relief fund targeting people affected by a drop in remittances from South Africa due to coronavirus (Covid-19).
A new fund, set up by the FinMark Trust, which will provide income relief to more than 8 000 families in Malawi, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, was announced in a statement on Tuesday.
The financial support will also provide much-needed essential services and food assistance to almost 750 000 people, including 14,000 households and nearly half a million migrants who have been adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
UK government acknowledged that the southern Africa region has been hard-hit by a prolonged drought and the COVID-19 pandemic has further deepened the food insecurity situation – 18 million people across Southern Africa are at risk of hunger for the remainder of this year.
Many low-income families in the Southern Africa region rely on remittances from family members based in South Africa. Estimates indicate that there are up to 3.7 million migrants from Southern African countries living in South Africa, sending R21.9 billion (approximately £1 billion) annually to family members back home.
An average of £15 per month will be provided to families affected by lost income from remittances, helping people meet immediate needs like food, rent and school fees. The UK is anchoring the the FinMark Trust fund with £500,000 in two tranches.
In a statement, James Duddridge MP, UK Minister for Africa, said: “For many communities across Southern Africa, the COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health emergency – it is also damaging livelihoods and exacerbating food shortages. The support the UK is providing will help families in crisis across Southern Africa – many of whom are female-led households – improving access to COVID-19 information and basic services, and protecting livelihoods.
“UK action to support the flow of remittances will help those most vulnerable to the economic fallout of COVID-19 across Southern Africa to access the necessary money to meet their immediate needs.”
CEO of FinMark Trust , Brendan Pearce, said families across Southern Africa rely heavily on remittances.
Amongst such families, the economic fallout of COVID-19 has hit the vulnerable particularly hard, especially women and children.
“The Southern Africa COVID-19 Remittance Relief Fund has been established to bring much-needed support to these communities. We are working in partnership with financial service providers across the region to make sure that this money reaches those most in need as quickly as possible,” he said.
For Malawi, the implementing partners are International Organisation for Migration (IOM) and Finmark Trust.
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Wait a minute. What’s a catch?
Reading this article makes me ponder on so many questions.
Having lived in the UK for nearly 20 years, we all know these people are very calculative and manipulative, and will not dare to get involved into any unprofitable endeavours.
The UK government giving away free money? You must be kidding me, it is impossible.
Undisputably, the UK is trying to buy us into unconsciously give in to some of their agendas that are soon to come.
“Zolowere mkudyere mwana”. I am saying this because the British government, as far as I know it, by and large, will never, and l repeat, will never give freebies.
They are busy taking away the liberties of the British citizens here, will the introduction of all the macho laws, and vaccines, which will eventually lead into the introduction of the 666.
This is why l am wondering, What is the catch.
As far as l am concerned, there’s no free lunch from the UK government, l am afraid.
Please do not sign any contracts or trade deals with the UK government, after they purportedly
‘donated” their money.
The UK government is desperate, (lurking around like a hungry and angry lion) to get other trade partners, now that Brexit is at the corner.
Musapusitsidwe ( don’t be fooled) a ma Afrika. Vukani, dzukani, galamukani, wukani !
Once you ‘dine and wine’ with them, giving them your trust, it is when the ‘ dragon’ will come with full force, and start to take all our food stuffs, natural resources, and everything from us, so that they feed their people, while telling us what to do, all in the name of ‘reimbursing’ their money.
The day all African people and governments will come to realise that azunguwa siyali mbali yathu, these white people are not our friends, but our greatest enemies, and all that they do is a by product of intensive and well calculated planning, it is the day when Africa will truly be free, independent.and prosperous.
After the enslavement, colonialism, setting up of churches that has been looting from us of natural resources, our land and money for centuries, the purported charitable organizations, donations and aids that is merely a scam and shambolic, do we still trust these white people?
They took our land for free, gave us their education so that we do not value our ways of living, history and cultures, and that we should live like them, in order to come across civilised.
They even take away our native names, to make it easy for them, and one cannot become ‘christian’ unless you bear one of their western or foreign names.
Please stop being too trusting, and desist from making the same mistakes our forebears made, which entails a great deal of catastrophic events and loss of African people’s resources, land and their dignity.
Stop worshipping these deranged and corrupt white people.
Azungu, Abelungu, Wazungu, Obronis, Oyibos are not our friends, they are on our side, they are there to feed off us ma Afrika.
Please refuse and reject all their snares and traps.
They are planing to come to Africa with a purported corona virus vaccine soon, which is nothing but an evil plan to alter black people’s DNA and kill us all off, and take our land.
This is their last attempt, after they gave us HIV and AIDS, we survived, they have been feeding us with genetically modified foods, and feed us food full of chemicals ( including the use of fertilisers and pesticides), even though cancer is on a high, but we are still surviving.
They are now coming to Africa with vaccines. They will vaccinate their people here in Europe with the top quality vaccines, and later force our African governments to buy their poisonous vaccines.
Their purpose of making money from the sale of vaccines, and wiping us all will be fulfilled.
Africa please do not buy their vaccines, and don’t allow the World Health Organisation to force you to buy it.
God gave you plenty of sunshine, which is a great source of Vitamin D, and the African gene is the original one,that’s all you need.
No vaccines and immunisation in Africa please. It is no good for you,and will cause more harm than good.
They just want Africa to continue being customers to these pharmaceutical companies.
Enough is enough, do not buy their vaccines, and do not spend our diminishing monies to purchase their useless vaccines.
May God have mercy on Africa, and may He grant us all with the wisdom to understand what is really happening.
May God open the eyes of Africa, so that they read even what is behind the lines, and come to see the evils that these people have been and are still planning on us.
CHINA CANT DO THIS….BUT IT IS HEALIVY BENEFITTING FROM TRADE WITH SOUTH AFRICA…
Since you mentioning SA and China trade maybe you must read widely to be informed.
Right at the beginning of South Africa’s surge in the pandemic, China gave SA donations of PPE, money and shared information on how it had dealt with the pandemic.
With regards to how the UK is offering aid to Malawi that’s good and their prerogative and the same can be said about China on which country they provide support to.