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.
TOC-Malawi is one of the projects that MASYAP is running. It is aimed at providing support to the less privileged. In September alone, TOC has managed to donate 131 abayas to women and youth member across all the 31 support
The HIV Testing Services (HTS) were provided in 6 support groups namely; Kanjedza, Kachere, Naperi, Chigumula, Chilomoni and Lunzu with a total of 94 members. The presence of the HTS officers is helping the women to ask questions about Cancer,
The routine support group outreach visits have been successful in all 9 support groups. These are carried out with the aim of encouraging the youth to be active members so that they can help in propagating HIV/AIDS messages in their
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
The Threads Of Care project is expanding. The tailors are able to make a variety of clothing, from school uniforms to lab coats, work suits, maid uniforms, abayas, hijabs and re-usable sanitary pads, not forgetting face masks just to mention
The school fees programme is aimed at providing financial support for girls most in need to continue their education. In this third term there are 39 students that are benefiting from the programme from 21 HIV support groups. MASYAP has
Provision of HTS is a continuing program and MASYAP aims at visiting all support groups so that no one is left out. Eight support groups were visited in August and HTS officers from their respective communities were invited to counsel
Having finished the cycle (April- July 2021), in preparation for the upcoming disbursement for the Oct-Jan 2022 cycle, members in both loan and savings program were called in for trainings conducted on the 16th for the loan program and the
MASYAP visits support groups, the main aim of the visit was to follow up on how girls are progressing in several activities of MASYP and how active they are. The following were discussed: – School dropout rate – Teen pregnancies