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.
October first loan repayments were very promising. The women are doing better in their businesses. Follow-up visits were conducted to the following support groups: Chilomoni, Ndirande, Mkwate, Lunzu and Machinjiri.
MASYAP has launched new HIV/AIDS support groups at Balakasi village in Zomba. The new members were briefed on the all the activities that MASYAP members are engaged in and this made the members more excited. During the introduction of the
MASYAP wishes to actively and collectively join the efforts to slow the spread of HIV/AIDS by improving knowledge, attitude and practices around sexual behavior and assist target groups in understanding how best to look after themselves if diagnosed with the
TOC has donated school uniforms to 4 support groups namely: Chatha, Chilobwe, Chilomoni and Ndirande support groups. A total number of 170 pupils has benefitted from the donation. ‘sazandipandibwenzanso ku sukulu’ (I will not be sent back from school again),
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