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.
Youth programmes were established in 2015 and now there are 30 youth support groups. They are comprised of girls that are infected and those that are not infected by the virus.
MASYAP’s 31 women’s support groups meet regularly and consist of members that are infected, affected and not affected women.
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 routine support group visits were conducted in 12 support groups with the aim of following up on how the support group members are propagating the HIV/AIDS messages that were provided by the medical personnel. These initiatives are deliberately put
MASYAP, through its Microfinance programme, empowers women financially by giving them interest-free small loans. These women venture into different small-scale businesses which help them to provide for their families.
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
An on-going project that hopes in keeping children in school by stitching school uniforms as quality education in Malawi can be achieved if school children were provided with adequate learning materials, school uniforms and a better learning environment. This is
These are one of the routine meetings that are held twice a year with the aim of following up on how the support group activities are progressing. There were 37 support group chairladies during the meeting. Each chairlady brought challenges
The essence of this program is to assist the youth members in our support groups with school fees. We have the total of 35 students on our school fees program, from all support groups as follows: Chiradzulu and Mtendere support
The Muslim World Leage (MWL) organisation donated yet another set of food packs in Ramadhan. 110 more MASYAP members including young mothers, orphans and vulnerable women benefited from the donation. Below are some of the cheerful young mothers and girls from
Road-To-Relief, one of the organisations that work with MASYAP donated 100 food packs to MASYAP women members across all support groups. The donation was aimed at assisting the members with food during the month of Ramadhan. The members were very
Makungwa, Chatha and M’miliwa were some of youth support groups that were visited during the outreach. All youth support groups were visited with the aim of following up on how the girls progressing in their different activities that they do;