Empowering women across Malawi
Our programme is a core part of our operations and our goal of helping women to fight the effects of HIV/AIDS by tackling poverty, which is a key driver of HIV/AIDS in Malawi and most parts of the world.
These are routine meetings that are conducted quarterly with the aim of bringing all the 37 group leaders together and discuss the progress, challenges as well as find possible solutions. During the women’s chairladies meeting, an HTS counsellor from Limbe
These are the routine services that are offered to our support groups in order to relay the message of HIV and AIDS in order to counsel, have the members get tested and to start medications if found positive and to
Whether or not one agrees that microcredit improves sustained income, microloans do enhance women’s economic empowerment through other avenues. Demonstrated benefits include helping women self-support, job creation in the community, greater control of monetary assets by women, and income smoothing.
The tailors are tirelessly working hard so that many vulnerable school children can benefit from this project.
The youths show-cased some of the activities they conduct in their groups such as drama as a way of propagating HIV/AIDS messages in their community.
MASYAP through its youth school fees programme disbursed school fees to girls that are on the programme as they are in the final term of the academic calendar. Apart from the school fees, MASYAP also works hand in hand with
These visits are aimed at civic-educating the girls on the preventive measures of HIV/AIDS. They are also encouraged to work hard in their studies as most of the members are young and school going. The support group visits strengthens the
The provision of HIV Testing Services (HTS) has resumed in some support groups within Blantyre district. These are deliberate initiatives aimed at taking the HTS into the communities so that they are accessible and friendly. The women’s coordinator, Lennie, is
The routine support group visits were conducted in 12 support groups in the month of June and 9 in the month of July. These are outreach programmes that are aimed at following up on how the support group members are
Women empowerment includes accepting women’s viewpoints or making an effort to seek them, raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy and training. It equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the different problems in society. They
