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Support group membership is growing fast
Routine follow-up visits found membership of MASYAP’s women’s groups growing rapidly.
EventWorld Children’s Day: days out for 100 children
With the Muslim World League, MASYAP took 100 children, many of them orphans, on days out to Victoria Gardens and Game Haven.
Programme updateFace masks for primary school pupils
Threads of Care is sewing face masks for pupils at government primary schools, many of whom cannot afford to buy one.
Programme updateMisesa members share their stories on Radio Islam
The women’s and youth coordinators visited Misesa support group with a Radio Islam presenter to record an episode of MASYAP Corner.
EventWorld AIDS Day 2021: “End inequalities. End AIDS. End pandemics”
At MASYAP’s event in Blantyre, a former school fees student who passed her MSCE urged younger girls to keep studying.
Programme updateMicrofinance loans help women start businesses
Women on the MASYAP microfinance programme are using their loans to start businesses, from tailoring to small shops.
Programme updateInside the Threads of Care tailoring centre
Besides school uniforms, our tailors make maids’ uniforms, work suits and dust coats, and reusable sanitary pads that are comfortable and kind to the…
Programme updateTaking the MASYAP Corner radio programme to the women
The radio producer recorded in a support group so that members who could not travel to the studio could tell their own stories.
EventChiwembe youth group hosts a get-together on girls’ rights
Chiwembe brought together eight youth groups to talk about the right to education and to wear the hijab at school.
Programme updateYouth groups lend a hand in their communities
MASYAP’s youth groups help elderly people, people living with HIV and orphans in their communities. Ten groups were visited in November.
NewsFour more women’s support groups launched in Zomba
MASYAP has started four new women’s groups in Zomba district, bringing HIV testing, youth mentoring and microfinance to rural women.
Programme update172 more children receive new school uniforms
In October, Threads of Care gave school uniforms to 172 children in Ndirande, Kumwembe, Mtendere and Naperi.