Empowering women across Malawi
The Threads Of Care tailoring project aims at empowering women and young mothers. The project provides employment to MASYAP women and youth members including widows, old age women and the HIV infected and affected members. The project promotes self-reliance and
The women chair ladies dwelled much on social attitudes towards issues relating to HIV/AIDS. The biggest problem in fighting AIDS is breaking the silence that surrounds the epidemic. Although thousands of people are ill or dying, it is not spoken
MASYAP holds meetings with the support group char ladies twice a year. These meetings are aimed at updating chair ladies on new developments from the office, giving feedback from previous queries and following up on how support groups are progressing.
Threads of care donate school uniforms to less privileged students in different schools. Wearing school uniform enhances school pride, unity and community spirit. Threads Of Care makes sure that every less privileged student is going to school in school uniform,
MASYAP continues to disseminate information about HIV/AIDS, women empowerment as well as girl child education through Television Islam as it is the easiest and cheapest way to reach out to the general public.
These are the services that are offered to our support groups in order to relay the message of HIV and AIDS, counsel, have the members get tested and to start medications if found positive so that they live a perfect
These are routine outreach visits that are carried out on monthly basis with the aim of following up on their daily activities. The youth coordinator visits them to teach, encourage and make sure that all members are being treated equally.
The programme aims at using the TV station as a tool to Civic-Educate Muslim women and youths on preventive measures of HIV/AIDS as well as providing care to those infected by the virus. The programme focuses on the general public
After loan disbursement in August, there have been follow-up visits to some of the support groups to see the type of businesses the beneficiaries are running. This assists MASYAP to establish the causes of late repayments.
The meeting was conducted on 14th of September 2021 with 60 support group chairladies. It was aimed at addressing issues that were raised during the previous meeting in April 2021 and also to remind them of the importance of working