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Richard Chirombo's Page - International Institute for ICT Journalism6 Jun 2009 ... Richard Chirombo's Page on International Institute for ICT Journalism. ... Richard Chirombo has not received any gifts yet ...
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Richard Chirombo About Me Page at HeliumRichard Chirombo - Biographical About Me Page. ... Featured article by Richard Chirombo. Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Lost souls ...
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AfricaNews - Female condom introduced in Malawi - ChiromboRichard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Malawi, foto: Lars Plougman .... Richard Chirombo is an experienced journalist based in Malawi. ...
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Richard Chirombo About Me Page at HeliumRichard Chirombo - Biographical About Me Page. ... Featured article by Richard Chirombo. Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Betrayal · 262 of 431 ...
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AfricaNews - Malawi: Arrested genius radio owner freed - ChiromboRichard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi Photo: Not picture of Gabriel ... Richard Chirombo is an experienced journalist based in Malawi. ...
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Articles written by Richard Chirombo - HeliumArticles written by Richard Chirombo - Helium. ... About me - Richard Chirombo. Articles · Writer Biography · + more bio information ...
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AfricaNews - Malawi: Fuel shortage deepens - Chirombo11 Nov 2009 ... Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi ... Richard Chirombo is an experienced journalist based in Malawi. ...
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Blogger: User Profile: Richard ChiromboIf you want to visit Malawi's most interesting places and are not sure about where to start, then Richard Chirombo is exactly where to start. ...
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Zachimalawi12 Nov 2009 ... Posted by Richard Chirombo at 1:53 AM 0 comments .... Well, Mr. Richard Leviano Simon Chirombo is not saying that youths should 'enjoy' sex ...
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Chirombo | FacebookMaggie Chirombo · Peter Kwesi Chirombo · Richard Chirombo · Derrick Thengo Chirombo. Manchester. Baxter Chirombo · Cosmore Chirombo · Barnabas Chirombo ...
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Mabloga: Blogging Malawi16 Nov 2009 ... Richard Chirombo: Zachimalawi · Sinthalunda · Soyapi Mumba's Blog · Stabily Msiska · Stephen Ndhlovu · Suzgo Alecy Khunga ...
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AfricaNews - Grade Seven drop out operates illegal community radio ...10 Oct 2009 ... Richard Chirombo. Image of Richard Chirombo. Profile · Homepage · 259 messages. A 21 year old, Standard (Grade) One school drop out, ...
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What gadgets do you use? - International Institute for ICT JournalismPermalink Reply by Richard Chirombo on June 9, 2009 at 2:23pm. The best gadget ever invented is the brain. I use a Flip Video myself, but it doesn't work ...
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Malawi Elections MAY 2009By AEP/Richard Chirombo Though the election of Henry Chimunthu Banda as Malawi's ... AEP/Richard Chirombo. Members of Parliament who contested on Democratic ...
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Brandon Currie's Page - International Institute for ICT Journalism16 Sep 2009 ... Richard Chirombo left a comment for Brandon Currie. October 1. Richard Chirombo left a ... At 1:44pm on June 9, 2009, Richard Chirombo said… ...
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Elections 2By Richard Chirombo. Blantyre - May 6, 2009. People's Transformation Party (Petra) president. Kamuzu Chibambo, says he is confident of victory during the ...
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100, 000 people to feature in 'Who-is-Who in Malawi' book | Malawi ...12 Nov 2009 ... Mhango has since engaged journalist and blogger Richard Chirombo in short listing, compiling and writing material gathered so far. ...
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ElectionsBy Richard Chirombo. Blantyre - May 5, 2009. Catholic University students have demanded the restoration of a "full parliament" in Malawi by whoever takes ...
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Plaxo Directory > Chirombo, M - Chirwa, aMolline Chirombo's photo. Molline Chirombo. HR Supervisor, Netsurit. Michele Chiromerides .... Richard Chirumbolo · Tendai Chirumbwana · Tim Chirumbwana ...
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Zachimalawi: WHO joins fight against Liver blindness30 Sep 2009 ... Liver blindness may lead to complete blindness, but Malawian patients only develop partial blindness. Posted by Richard Chirombo at 6:53 AM ...
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Prevention Now! Expanding Global Access to Female Condoms - Female ..."Malawian lesbians to use female condoms," by Richard Chirombo, ... "Female condom introduced in Malawi," by Richard Chirombo, Africa News, July 21, 2008. ...
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Zachimalawi: Malawi intensifies search for gold, diamondPresident Bingu wa Mutharika has called for more investments in the country's mining sector. Posted by Richard Chirombo at 6:47 AM ...
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Chirombo cha Baiwa | | South African Music Archive ProjectPeople: Muchariva | Remigio | Richard. Place: Marandellas, Southern Rhodesia, Zimbabwe. Keywords: Chipendani musical bow, ... Chirombo cha Baiwa | ...
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AfricaNewsRichard Chirombo, Blantyre, Malawi - Armed officers from Blantyre Police on Friday stood in ambush along the Kaohsiung Road, and then chased Africa News ...
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Association for Journalists Against HIV/AIDSImagine, during my last visit to Blantyre I told one of my close friends in the media, Richard Chirombo that I wanted to come into the openabout my HIV ...
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africanelections.org| Malawi Election News |We are here, opposition8th July 2009 by Richard Chirombo. Email story Print story Malawi. We are here, opposition. Opposition political parties have assured voters they will not ...
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allAfrica.com: Malawi: Polls Free and Fair? - EISA and Comesa21 May 2009 ... (Accra). Malawi: Polls Free and Fair? - EISA and Comesa. Richard Chirombo. 21 May 2009. Email|; Print|; Comment(10). Share: ...
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AfricaNews - WeblogsChirombo. "Richard Chirombo's weblog". Richard Chirombo is an experienced journalist based in Malawi. He has worked for various media house… ...
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Blogs : Malawi Elections Breaking News And More : I Am Not ...25 Jun 2009 ... EC Banks of Elections Review Report By Richard Chirombo The Electoral Commission (EC) has expressed hope the on-going Elections Review ...
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Malawi takes a step further5 May 2009 ... Electoral body urges no panic over electoral calendar (Richard Chirombo) · Finance Ministry not worried with polls ...
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africanelections.org| Malawi Election News |Mugabe Urges Malawian ...19 May 2009 ... 6th July 2009 by Richard Chirombo. Email story Print story story Comments (24) Malawi. Mugabe Urges Malawian Politicians To Unite ...
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AfricaNews2 May 2008 ... Richard Chirombo, Blantyre, Malawi - Puna Mwamadi, 36, believes she died on April 6, 1997. The mother of Four, from the area of Traditional ...
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allAfrica.com: Malawi: Anticipation Grips Country20 May 2009 ... (Accra). Malawi: Anticipation Grips Country. Richard Chirombo. 20 May 2009. Email|; Print|; Comment(9). Share: ...
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AfricaNewsRichard Chirombo, Blantyre, Malawi - Mobile phone operator, TNM, has introduced highly-subsidised cellphones in a bid to increase the number of Malawians ...
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Richard Chirombo Profile 136 messages Organisations for people living with HIV and AIDS did not apply for Voter Civic Education, a development that may ...
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Eye On COMESA Newsletter - October 20096 Oct 2009 ... Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews Ethiopia meet its rising power needs reporter in Blantyre, Malawi stemming from the expansion of According to ...
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MICROCAPITAL STORY: Malawi Ministry of Justice and Constitutional ...20 Jan 2009 ... According to a report by journalist Richard Chirombo in Malawi's Daily Times, the Microfinance and Financial Cooperatives bills submitted to ...
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Association for Journalists Against HIV/AIDS: AJAAH organises ...6 May 2009 ... Secretary: Everson Kalinda, Treasure : Richard Chirombo, Members: Vuto Zamadunga, Geoffrey Kapusa, Dorothy Kachitsa, Edith Mkwaila, ...
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allAfrica.com: Malawi: We Have Had a Good Campaign - Political Parties18 May 2009 ... (Accra). Malawi: We Have Had a Good Campaign - Political Parties. Richard Chirombo. 18 May 2009. Email|; Print|; Comment. Share: ...
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Malawi Elections MAY 2009: No latest results on EC website14 Jun 2009 ... By Richard Chirombo. People have complained over the lack of latest information on the Electoral Commission's (EC) website. ...
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national12By Richard Chirombo, Blantyre. August 7 2009. Malawi Gender Minister Patricia Kaliati has expressed concern over increased cases of gender-based violence, ...
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Malawi Elections MAY 2009: Tembo Unperturbed on Leader of ...10 Jun 2009 ... And we will be one in parliament," said Tembo, a member of parliament for Dedza South in the Central region. AEP/By Richard Chirombo ...
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Chirkova, Lyudmila | Chiron, Delphine | People Directory | FacebookChirombo, Richard · Chirombo, Samuel · Chirombo, Sly · Chirombo, Tinashe Tbo · Chirombo, Zagwa · Chiro, Mean · Chiromeisjes-staden, Leiding · Chiro, Melanie ...
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AfricaNews > Malawi: Fuel shortage deepensPosted on Wednesday 11 November 2009 16:52. Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi. Latest Africa News ...
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AfrikaNieuws - Onderwerpen uit categorie Forums - NLHis effort to put an end to drug trafficking in the West African rich bauxite nation was welcomed by his people. .... 12-11-2009 10:39 door Richard Chirombo ...
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AfricaNews > Malawi: Religions soften rules on condomPosted on Friday 23 October 2009 12:57. Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi. Latest Africa News ...
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Richard Chirombo. AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi. Malawi continues to experience a paralyzing fuel shortage that authorities blame on technical ...
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AfricaNews > Malawi: Arrested genius radio owner freedPosted on Wednesday 21 October 2009 16:36. Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi Photo: Not picture of Gabriel ...
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Last Names Ranging From Chirnoaga, Corneliu To Chironna, Susan ...... Raymond Chirnside Rebecca Chirnside Richard Chirnside Robert Chirnside Robin ... Lovemore Chirombo Martyn Chirombo Tichafa Chirombo Zagwazatha Chirombo ...
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Anti -Christ or Great Thinker?100 posts - 47 authors - Last post: 10 Oct
Sam (chirombo), Monday, 17 November 2003 10:12 (5 years ago) Permalink .... Richard Dawkins is a nasty man because he says its all a result ...
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Latest News - The LBW TrustWe are very grateful to Richard Stobo, the Master in Charge of Cricket at the ... Law students Mathias Chirombo (Rhodes University) Tinashe Ruswa and Kuda ...
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Bio-diversity // BlogCatalog Topic // BlogCatalogZachimalawi: Locals still shun tourism sitesBy Richard Chirombo Government maintains Malawi remains one of the cheapest destinations in Africa, ...
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Chiroiu, Razvan - Chiron, Guillaume | LinkedIn... Dr Ronald Blaha Chiromassage2001 · Nicodimus Chirombe · Tariro Chirombe · Barnabas Chirombo · Fanuel Chirombo · Lovemore Chirombo · Molline Chirombo ...
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446 Reviews.place of the " goblin " (Chirombo, chitowi, dzimwe), of the Eastern ... Greece, like Russia, is peculiarly rich in ancient lore, and for ...
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Afrika Museum in Berg en Dal (bij Nijmegen) | Afrika NuReplies: 0 Last poster: Richard Chirombo at 11-11-2009 10:56 Topic is Open Government has reiterated the need to respect the rights of people with physical ...
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At Shore School, two Housemasters, Messrs Richard Stobo (Colebrook) and ... support of Mathias Chirombo at Rhodes University, providing the essentials ...
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Connect the World: Blog Archive - Connector of the Day: Richard ...21 Sep 2009 ... Question for Richard Dawkins tonight on Connect the World: Does not human history suggest that ..... chirombo, September 22nd, 2009 1350 GMT ...
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THE MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD017, M, KWANJANA JOHN, 025, M, MWAFULIRWA RICHARD YAULUNGU. 028, M, NOWA CHARLES, 031, M .... 026, F, CHIROMBO SOPHIA Y, 167, M, KADUMBO LIMBANI ...
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Bright Malopa: August 200625 Aug 2006 ... Uniqueness of the panoramic: Malawi's dynamic country rich in ..... When these German tourists crossed checked the term (CHIROMBO) with ...
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Are children under too much pressure to succeed? | Comment is free ...18 Aug 2006 ... and had great difficulty getting into the ETH at Z rich. .... Have to agree with Chirombo. The word "children" covers a large age range ...
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THE MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD031, M, FALINYA RICHARD ELLIOT, 034, M, KACHINGWE MACMILLAN BEN ..... 151, M, CHIROMBO JACQUES D, 152, M, CHIRWA JOSEPH MAVUTO ...
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Results - StudentZone - Rhodes University4 Sep 2009 ... Mathias Chirombo 462. Musongaka Ngwenya 261 ... We would like thank the IT division; Mr Guy Halse, Mr Richard Barnett, Mr Mike Morley and Mr ...
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Malawi - Equator InitiativeOversees the Chirombo Bay Irrigation/Fish-ponds Project which includes the creation of vegetable ... guard against soil erosion, and produce rich compost. ...
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THE MALAWI NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS BOARD083, M, CHIBWANA JAMES JAMBO, 085, M, CHIKUSE RICHARD M. 089, M, GARETA PAUL V, 098, M, MACHESO CLEMENT ... 071, M, CHINKONO ELISHA, 073, M, CHIROMBO MANUEL ...
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ka chirombo ka HIV. Bukhuli silikupereka mayankho onse ayi, koma ..... Kodi mukugwirizana ndi zakuti Richard asamagwiritse ntchito makondomu ndi ...
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Hugh Tracey recordings: part 2 / RootsWorld Recording Review... and playing a karimba mbira on "Chirombo woye nditerere" ("Spirit listen to me"). ... Richard Dorsett. Read about more of Hugh Tracey's recordings: ...
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2009 Selection Health SciencesRichard. Phalombe Secondary. 12. M. NG'AMBI. Tukumbuke. Livingstonia Secondary ... CHIROMBO. Thokozani Lester. Chiradzulu Secondary ...
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Trewavas Red-Finned Cichlid, Red-finned Cichlid, Labeotropheus ...They are also found in areas from Chirombo Point to Nkhata Bay and then from Lion's Cove to Chitande. They enjoy areas that range from sediment rich to ...
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Afrodisc, by Opiyo OloyaOn the tracks "Chisi," "Wachiona Chirombo," "Kariba" and "Zvichapera" you realize that ... even repetitive lyrics are overlaid with rich and complex melody. ...
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StudentBusinesses.com | Resources for ...Key Team Members: Alan Dow, Richard Mailman, Justin Brown, Todd Johnson ..... Posted By: Lovemore Chirombo (Community College of Baltimore County) ...
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played together create a rich kaleidoscope of sound in which the listener can hear ... Ndaire Chirombo (Answer Me). Forward and Ernest. Nyuchi (Bees) ...
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A simulation model for X.500 directoriesJ. M. Bennett, M. A. Bauer, S. T. Feeney, and B. Chirombo. ... Toby Teorey , Michael Bauer , Paul Larson , Richard McBride , Yechiam Yemini , Shaula Yemini, ...
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Travel in Lilongwe - Malawi - Africa - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-... Mede (probably the best known), Kay Chirombo, Willie Nampeya and Louis Dimpwa. ... Like most other African countries, Malawi has a rich oral tradition. ...
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Labidochromis caeruleus - Electric yellow6 Jun 2005 ... L. caeruleus is found in Lake Malawi from Chirombo Point to Charo in Malaŵi ... rich rocky biotope with dark caves at a depth of around 20m. ...
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Forest Resources Magazine - News about StudentsWhile in Malawi, she worked extensively with the children of Chirombo Bay. .... Richard Fritsky, M.S.; Jeremy Harper, M.S.;. Fall 2006. UNDERGRADUATES ...
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Dancing Prophets: Musical Experience in Tumbuka ...simplistic and schemiiatic and fails to engage fully with the rich and complex ... as viirombo (seeing them as akin to wild and harmful animals, chirombo). ...
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NYASA - Online Information article about NYASAAt Cape Chirombo (I 1 ° 4o' S.) the coast bends to the west, ... rampart; the original O. Eng. word for a wall was wag or tenth) · WALL, RICHARD (1694-1778) ...
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John Lwanda - Pamtondo.com : Where a little of Malawi meets the ...The work included looking after the Biology Laboratory (under Mr Chirombo, ..... Kamuzu Banda of Malawi , Richard Carver. 4) New African, 1997, Promises, ...
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Thomas Mapfumo and The Blacks Unlimited - Music - Dandemutande CatalogDisaster; 5. Kune Rima; 6. Moto Uyo; 7. Washiona Chirombo; 8. ... Ngoni Makombe, Lancelot Mapfumo, Thomas Mapfumo, Richard Tsindi Matimba, Chaka Mhembere, ...
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GlaserKeeping is identical, which means they need ballast rich food and a high pH ... C. axelrodi is restricted to small areas (Nkhata Bay and Chirombo Point). ...
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アフリカ障害者の10年 2008年 3Richard Chirombo, Africanews reporter in Malawi. Children with disability are becoming the cause of separation between husbands and wives in Malawi. ...
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[DOC] Download (A Sustainable CCBC rev 4-1-09 - ACUPCC Reports ...File Format: Microsoft Word - View as HTML
Jessica Rich. Andrew Arciaga. Rhyner Washburn. Audrey Ndaba. Lauren Wheatley. Lovemore Chirombo. Andrew Violant. Cameron Torres. Nicole Wheatley ...
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eScholarship: Epistemology and Epidemiology: Diagnosing AIDS in ...... or ?little wild beast?, from the Chichwa chirombo, for wild beast). .... The journals are rich in details of everyday life and happenings. ...
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Jeremy Langmead: on overage drug-taking | Comment is free | The ...Chirombo. 18 Aug 2006, 11:10AM. The best phrase in the world is 'Horses for .... that his "friends" are egoistical self centered drug addicts rich idiots. ...
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Jean-Louis Kayitenkore Blog: September 14, 200814 sep 2008 ... Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Lilongwe, Malawi. Malawi will beat Democratic Republic of Congo by hook or crook in October to ...
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Chamu Chibhabha - Zimbabwe | FacebookMathias Chirombo · Njabulo Ncube · Thelma Simairi Mwale · Daniel Hondo · Richard Muridzi · Brandon Sillah. Chamu Chibhabha is on Facebook. ...
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Not so Keane now | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk23 Aug 2006 ... Chirombo. 24 Aug 2006, 4:31PM. I had never heard of Keane (I am not a ... Coke's for the rich and Speed's for the poor, I liked that one. ...
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ZimbabweUpdate.com™: Ko Chii Chisipo?CHIRINDA, BATSI : DALLAS - USA. CHIROMBO, MOLLINE : JOHANNESBURG - SOUTH AFRICA .... LOWERHUTT - NEW ZEALAND. MATIKANYA, RICHARD : LONDON - UNITED KINGDOM ...
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worked extensively with the children of Chirombo Bay. In order ..... Richard Yahner, professor of wildlife conservation, were each ...
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BioOne Online Journals - DIVERGENCE WITH GENE FLOW IN THE ROCK ...As a result, this genus is exceptionally species rich. ... Its distribution is limited to Kanchedza Island, Chirombo Bay, Nkhudzi Hills, and Mphande Island ...
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[PDF] Outstanding Occasions!File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
Martin, Florence Chirombo, Dan Levy,. Matthew McHale and Nicholas Hall. ...... Photography by Richard Richards, Sally Edwards and Matt Howcroft (CEDM).
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Richard Chirombo, AfricaNews reporter in Blantyre, Malawi The arrested primary school dropout who established a community radio ...
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Bóksala Stúdenta - ProductListCHIROMBO. ÞORP Á STRÖND MALAVÍVATNS. AUGNABLIK Í L ... Author: WILK, RICHARD R. & CLIGGETT, LISA C. Publisher: WESTVIEW PRESS Published: 2007 ...
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WikiVerb - Nyanja Verb List5 Aug 2008 ... chetha -- to take a piece of maize stalk or any chirombo out of the ...... khupuka -- to get rich suddenly; especially after being poor ...
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This includes up to 50% more protein, 15% more energy-rich food and 100-fold ...... Ester Chirombo. 28.10.02, Wildlife and Environment Society, Blantyre ...
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20 Apr 2009 ... Jessica Rich. Andrew Arciaga. Rhyner Washburn. Audrey Ndaba. Lauren Wheatley. Lovemore Chirombo. Andrew Violant. Cameron Torres ...
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Maylandia sp. "Zebra Gold Lion's Cove" - Eau douce, Afrique lac ...On le retrouve sur la côte nord-ouest, de Charo à Chirombo Point, on le trouve aussi à Mara Rocks et Mbowe Island. Habitat dans le milieu naturel : ...
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Labidochromis caeruleus - Eau douce, Afrique lac Malawi - Aquarium ...Elle va de CHIROMBO POINT à CHARO. Si l'on remonte vers le Nord à N'KATA BAY, le Labidochromis caeruleus est entièrement blanc. ...
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Richard Chirombo's Special Report on Human and Child Trafficking in Malawi

Trafficked boy’s family still waits for justice
Panganani Chigada, a promising 19-year old youth from Blantyre’s Ndirande Township, still lives in the hearts and minds of his family members- some 11 months after his mysterious death.
Panganani is a living example of human trafficking, family members say.
The late Panganani’s brother, 22 year-old Blessings, said his younger brother traveled to South Africa earlier this year, and arrived in the Rainbow nation on January 19, 2009. People like Blessings and relatives only got the news from Panganani when he thought he was finally home and dry in South Africa.
“He (Panganani) was an energetic person who used to wear earrings and imitate the dressing of US (United States of America) hip-hop music artists, something I think made him attractive to traffickers,” said Blessings.
He believes that his brother’s looks are what attracted Chancy Kauta, a Malawian woman who lives in South Africa, as well as her friend believed to have come from New Zealand, to befriend him. They then started taking him along on their trips to various tourist attraction places in Malawi.
“The same women took Panganani to South Africa, where he is said to have been sold to men who sodomised him to death,” he said, flanked by his sister Edna.
Edna things that poverty could have played a role in their brother’s ordeal and subsequent death. The Chigada family lost the father a few years ago and depends on the mother- a widow who fends for the family by selling tea products.
It all started when Chancy, whose parents live in Ndirande, came home from South Africa to attend a tomb construction ceremony for a family member and brought the white lady friend along.
The family fails to understand how Panganani came to befriend the two ladies, to the extent of always being in their company.
“It reached a point where our brother could pass nights at their place,” said Edna.
In the end, the three arranged to process a passport for Panganani, without his relatives’ knowledge, and took him along to South Africa. He called a friend, Ted, on January 19 informing him that he had arrived safely in Cape Town.
Barely a month later, Panganani was dead. A family examination of his body revealed that he had damaged anal tissue and other signs of physical torture. What surprised the family, though, were the details in his passport: they showed that he hailed from the area of Traditional Authority Chigaru in Blantyre whereas the family hails from T/A Kapeni in the same district.
The passport also contained some ‘strange name’. It indicated that the deceased name was Panganani Promise Chigada and the family says he never had such a name.
Edna and Blessings say circumstances surrounding their brother’s death point to human trafficking, and have called on officials to extradite investigations on the issue.
“The year is coming to a close yet there seems to be no progress at all. We are getting tired of waiting for justice and our fear is that these people will do the same to others,” said Blessings.
Blessings said family members can not digest the fact that Panganani is really gone, hoping that the truth behind his death could set them free. The danger is that on the long journey between waiting and justice, many more lives could be lost.

2010 World Cup: Any links with Human Trafficking
The 2010 World Cup, to be held in South Africa for the first time on Continent Africa, has been a dream long-coming. It is a living manifestation of Africa’s patience, hope and forbearance that never came without sweat and threats, some of which vain.
It all started when African soccer officials, through Africa’s soccer governing body- the Confederation of African Football (CAF)- lobbied for more African slots at the world stage, a development that saw the number of teams represented at World Cup finals balloon to five, up from three.
CAF then told the Federation for International Football Associations (FIFA) point-blank that increasing the number of African representatives was not enough; the continent wanted nothing less than the chance to lay host to the world’s biggest soccer fiesta. Efforts to host it in 2006 failed, as Germany’s bid proved too superior to that of African
representatives and CAF was riled.
The confederation threatened to boycott proceeding World Cups, prompting FIFA President Joseph Sepp Blatter to grant Africa an automatic hosting right next year (2010). It thus became an all-Africa affair, with Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and others trying their luck. In the end, the Rainbow nation of South Africa emerged victor and now stands ready to host the event.
Almost all people on the continent and the rest of the world agree that this is Africa’s biggest moment. However, legal experts and human rights activists, especially those working in the area of human trafficking, have refused to throw all caution to the wind and ride over the buzz of general excitement.
The experts fear that the 2010 World Cup could turn out to be a bottomless pit for human trafficking incidents, and want government. Civil society organizations, the media and members of the public to work together in making the world Cup finals a water-tight affair for traffickers.
Fears are that children and women, the common targets for traffickers, could fall victim to organized trafficking syndicates and leave more tears than joy on Africa’s shiny face.
Child Justice Magistrate Esmie Tembenu, who presides over child cases at Soche Child Justice Court in Blantyre is first to raise the alarm.
“We must be extremely careful as a nation. There is need, also, to increase the level of public awareness on issues of human trafficking. I fear for our children and women, especially, comprise a large part of trafficking victims,” said Tembenu.
Tembenu warned people, especially rural dwellers. Against entertaining unknown people who will more likely be plying the dusty village roads and paths in search of people. Often, these foreigners will be using coercion and blackmail to get their way.
“I can foresee people going to the villages and promising would-be victims employment and better life. Some will even try to adopt Malawian children without going through the normal channels, and then taking these unsuspecting people to South Africa to be used as child prostitutes and labourers. Unfortunate ones are killed for their body organs,” she said.
Malawi is, however, not taking these challenges lying down. Government and human rights activists, through the Malawi Network against Child Trafficking (MNACT), are in the midst of a national campaign against human trafficking. MNACT , whose secretariat is hosted by the child rights NGO, Eye of the Child, was established by the Malawi government through the Ministry of Gender, Child and Community Development . It enjoys a membership of 69 organisations, both governmental and non-state actors.
MNACT’s anti-human trafficking campaign is premised on the fact that a recent rapid assessment survey on the social impact of the 2010 FIFA World Cup conducted by the Southern African Network against Trafficking and Abuse of Children (SANTAC) revealed that trafficking cases were bent to increase.
The assessment revealed that, before and during the event, demand for sexual services, including sexual services from women and children, will increase; there will be more demand for cheap and exploitable labour as well as increased opportunities for criminal elements to ply their trade, which includes trafficking and exploitation of women and children.
MNACT has put in place strategies aimed at contributing towards government and the international community’s initiatives against human trafficking, a goal it plans to achieve by increasing public knowledge and awareness on human trafficking. The campaign targets policy makers, service delivery institutions (police officers, minibus operators, health workers, child protection workers, health surveillance assistants) and community members.
For now, the battle lines have been drawn. The only problem, however, could be lack of specific anti-human trafficking legislation as, currently, passing judgment on human trafficking cases is analogous to fixing a thousand rags of different colours to one piece of clothing.

Malawi committed to fighting human trafficking
Malawi has maintained its Tier 2 ranking in the June, 2009 edition of Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) published by the United States of America’s Department of State.
Tier 2 countries are those whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet such standards. There are 72 countries under this category, with Mozambique, Tanzania, Namibia, Madagascar, Rwanda, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Israel, Jamaica, Japan among some of the familiar faces.
There are three classifications of Tiers. Tier 1 is for countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act minimum standards (Mauritius, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Nigeria, Denmark, Norway, Canada, Australia, France, among other countries) while Tier 2 applies to those that do not fully comply but are making significant efforts to comply. This category also contains a Watch List component, which applies to countries that have significant numbers of trafficked victims, or whose numbers are increasing; countries that have provided no evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; and countries whose determination that they are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year. The last category, Tier 3, is for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so. Currently, these countries include Burma, Chad, Cuba, Eritrea, Fiji, Iran, Kuwait, Malaysia, Mauritania, Niger, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria, and Papua New Guinea.
The US Department of State is required by law to submit each year to the country’s congress a report on foreign governments’ efforts top eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons, and the June report becomes the ninth annual Trafficking in Persons Report. The US government first issued its first anti-human trafficking policy under President Bill Clinton in 1998, a development that has seen unprecedented forward movement around the world in efforts to end human trafficking, according to US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton acknowledges, however, that much needs to be done, especially in identifying and addressing the root causes of trafficking, including policies that contribute towards the trafficking of vulnerable children.
“The human trafficking phenomenon affects virtually every country, including the United States. In acknowledging America’s own struggle with modern-day slavery and slavery-related practices, we offer partnership. We call on every government to join us in working to build consensus and leverage resources to eliminate all forms of human trafficking,” says Clinton.
Her sentiments reflect the thinking of US President Barack Obama, who says: “Sadly, there are thousands who are trapped in various forms of enslavement, here in our country…oftentimes young women who are caught up in prostitution. So, we’ve got to give prosecutors the tools to crack down on these human trafficking networks. Internationally, we’ve got to speak out. It is a debasement of our common humanity, whenever we see something like that taking place.”
TIP serves as a US diplomatic tool aimed at engaging the world in the fight against human trafficking.
In the wake of continued negative TIP ranking, Malawi has set out to turn things around, and has for the past five years engaged an extra gear in efforts aimed at nipping human trafficking in the bud. Efforts to develop legislation to combat human trafficking started in November 2004, and these efforts were mainly targeted at fulfilling Malawi’s obligations under the United Nations Protocol to Suppress, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons adopted in 2002. The protocol came into force in 2003.
Between 2004 and 2006, the country increased its efforts through reviews of a myriad of loosely attached legislation touching on human trafficking, and has achieved positive strides through the Malawi Law Commission. The commission launched a number of preparatory activities including the 2005 publication of a research paper on trafficking in persons, primarily focusing on the trafficking of women and children for sexual exploitation within and outside Malawi.
The commission also reviewed a number of other legislation and policies, which included the National Action Plan for Orphans and Vulnerable Children, Children and Young Persons Act, Wills and Inheritance Act, Adoption of Children Act, Divorce Act, the Penal Code.
Some of its work has since started bearing fruit. For instance, the Child Care, Protection and Justice Bill developed by the commission completely reformed the Children and Young Persons Act by introducing extensive reforms to the legal framework affecting the care and protection of children.
The Malawi Law Commission has not taken these strides on the chin and sat back. In September 2009, the commission submitted the report on the Development of the Trafficking in Persons Legislation to Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Prof. Peter Mutharika. This is the culmination of work that started in 2007, when the Malawi Law Commission in consultation with the Judicial Service Commission appointed a special Law Commission whose mandate was to develop legislation on prevention and elimination of trafficking in persons.
Mutharika said the report was evidence enough that the country was doing all it could to come around the problem of human trafficking, adding government was committed nipping human trafficking in the bud.
“Government is very much committed to tackling the problem of human trafficking. We know that women and children bear the brunt of such practices, yet this is a group of people that contributes positively towards social-economic development,” said Mutharika.
He reiterated government’s commitment to solving the puzzle that is human trafficking, and asked for close collaboration with government departments, civil society organisations and community members. Mutharika said the fight against human trafficking required consulted efforts, and commended NGOs for their work in increasing public awareness.

Law Commission submits draft Trafficking legislation
Malawi is on verge of having comprehensive legislation dealing with issues of human trafficking following submission of the Malawi Law Commission’s Development of Trafficking in Persons draft legislation report.
The long awaited for report was submitted to Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Prof. Peter Mutharika., in September this year and aims at providing a comprehensive legislative framework for combating and preventing trafficking in persons using human rights based approaches.
Once enacted by Parliament, the legislation will apply to where the offense committed is committed wholly or partly in Malawi; the offense is committed outside Malawi but the victim happens to be a Malawian citizen; the offense is committed outside the country by a citizen of Malawi or a person who is resident in Malawi; or the offense involves an organized criminal group, committed outside Malawi with a view to the Commission of an offense under this act, within Malawi .
The report is cause for relief for many, including judicial officers. The existing legal framework in Malawi makes no express reference to the offense of trafficking in persons, the result has been disastrous as court officials have been forced to apply different statutes.
While the Penal Code recognizes that trafficking-related offenses breach various forms of fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed under the constitution and need to be criminalized, penal provisions cut across various laws. Some of these laws include the Immigration Act, the Employment Act, the Extradition Act and the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act.
This has led prosecuting authorities to sometimes apply different sentences, a case in point being that of Masautso Banda- who employed 10 children under the age of 14. The prosecuting authority used the Employment Act to bring to book traffickers who exploited others through forced labour.
Banda was accused of trafficking children from Dedza to Mchinji for labour, and was charged under Sections 21 and 24 of the Employment Act for employing 10 persons under 14 years of age. The accused pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a fine of K5000, to pay the sum of K1, 500 to each of the trafficked children as compensation for their suffering for three days, and to pay the children’s transport expenses from Mchinji to Dedza. In default, the accused was sentenced to imprisonment for 11 months.
Banda paid the fine and escaped a prison sentence.
In some cases, prosecuting authorities have failed to secure convictions for trafficking offenses because existing laws were not drafted to capture the peculiar nature of the offense of trafficking in persons- a peculiarity illustrated in the case of Ruth Lourenco versus the Republic. In 1999, three destitute girls from Lilongwe, aged between 15 and 19 years, were arrested in a police raid at sex club in Amsterdam and were subsequently deported to Malawi.
The accused, a local businesswoman, was accused of trafficking them and stood trial on charges of procuring for prostitution outside Malawi. She was acquitted on technical grounds because, by the time the girls were approached by the accused, they were already commercial sex workers due to their destitution. The court thus held that since they were already prostitutes prior to their recruitment, they could not have been procured for the purpose of prostitution as set out under section 140 of the Penal Code.
The report on ‘Development of Trafficking in Persons Legislation’ will thus fill many prevalent gaps, and give Malawi a vintage point in dealing with human trafficking cases. It comes after comprehensively examining various international instruments, among them the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; International Covenant of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, United National Convention against Transnational Organized Crime to Suppress, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children; Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women; Convention on the Rights of the Child; the Worst Forms of Child Labour Convention; Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights on the Rights of Women; Southern African Development Community Protocol on Trafficking in Persons; Millennium Development Goals, among others.
Commissioners assigned to the task recommended that proposed legislation provide comprehensive provisions on the prevention and elimination of trafficking in persons; provide the establishment of a Board for co-ordination and management of matters related to trafficking in persons; provide provisions for care, assistance and protection of trafficked persons; provide for local and international co-operation on matters of trafficking in persons; as well as a provision catering for connected matters.
The commissioners included Penston Kilembe as chairperson, Doreen Kapanga as deputy, and Gertrude Lynn Hiwa, Wezi Kayira, Justice Maclean Kamwambe, Tonda Chinangwa, Elias Zirikunkhongo, Grace Tikambeni Malera, Maxwell Matewere and Habiba Osman as members.

MNACT Special report on human trafficking
Millions of African men, women and children are being forced into situations of labour and sexual exploitation, both in Africa and abroad, annually. At the international level, trafficking in persons has been identified as a serious threat to human security and development by governments, pressure civil society organisations, pressure groups and the United Nations. For many African governments, however, the problem has only been recently acknowledged.
Human trafficking came to the fore at the turn of the 1990s, and particularly during the first decade of the Millennium, as the international community came to recognize it as one of the major challenges facing the globalised world. Increased acknowledgement of the existence of the practice, also described as modern day slavery, helped the world focus on this new form of slavery, efforts that begun to expose the devastating plight of trafficked persons. Members of the international community, including Malawi, have never looked back.
In Malawi, initiatives to develop legislation aimed at combating trafficking in human begun in earnest in November 2004- a programme of action aimed at fulfilling Malawi’s obligations under the United Nations General Assembly’s Protocol to Suppress, Prevent and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children. The Protocol was adopted in 2000 by UN member states but came into force in 2003. It supplements the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, which came into force in 2001.
Malawi is still working on new anti-human trafficking legislation since the currently has no existing legal framework that makes express reference to the offense of child trafficking.
This could explain why Malawi has remained stuck on Tier 2 in the United States of America-Department of State’s Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) published in June, 2009.The Department of State is required by law to submit each year to the US Congress a report on foreign governments’ efforts to eliminate severe forms of trafficking in persons.
The report serves as US government’s diplomatic tool aimed at increasing global awareness of the human trafficking phenomenon and sheds new light on various facets of the problem. It highlights shared and individual efforts of the international community and encourages foreign governments to take effective action against all forms of trafficking in persons.
The impacts of human trafficking are devastating as victims may suffer physical and emotional abuse, rape, threats against self and family and even death. That is one of the reasons the practice remains a multi-dimensional issue: it is a crime that deprives people of their human rights free and freedoms, increases global health risks, fuels growing networks of organized crime and can sustain levels of poverty and impede development in certain areas.
Tiers are categories under which countries and ranked in relation to their efforts against human trafficking. Tier 1 is for countries whose governments fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards, and includes such countries as Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, United Kingdom, Nigeria, Mauritius, Germany and Italy.
Tier 2 is the ranking for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with those standards. Countries in this group include Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Uganda and Zambia. But category also has a Watch List, and this includes countries whose governments do not fully comply with TVPA’s minimum standards but are making significant efforts.
It takes into consideration such factors as the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking (where their numbers are significant), or where such numbers are significantly increasing; failure to provide evidence of increased efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year; and, the determination that a country is making significant efforts to bring themselves into compliance with minimum standards was based on commitments by the country to take additional future steps over the next year. Countries include China, Gabon, Lesotho, Argentina, Egypt, Tunisia, and Yemen.
The last category is that of Tier 3, which is for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so. Examples include Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Eritrea, Burma, Chad, Malaysia, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Papua New Guinea, among others.
The reality of human trafficking also came to the fore during a January, 2008 National Consultative Workshop, which firmly entrenched views that trafficking in persons was just an international phenomenon but one that is also occurring within the borders of Malawi, involving both Malawian victims and perpetrators.
In the period between 1999 and 2004, Malawi came to the spotlight as a country of origin, transit and designation in East and Southern Africa for transnational victims to South Africa and Western Europe following the publication of a study by the International Organization for Migration carried out in 2003. This was partly because the country was also classified in Tier 2-Watchlist by the 2004 US T.I.P Report.
However, issues surrounding external and internal migration (one of the areas through which human trafficking takes place) primarily for labour that has at times turned out to be exploitative are deeply entrenched in Malawi’s history. International labour migration from Malawi to neighbouring mining countries of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia dates back to the historical ties that arose at the creation of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in 1953, when cheap labour from Nyasaland was used to run the mines in Northern and Southern Rhodesia.
Upon the dissolution of the Federation and after attaining independence, labour flows continued out from Malawi, and were formalized in the early 1980s by the Temporary Employment Bureau of Africa (TEBA), which used to recruit people to work in the minds of Zimbabwe and South Africa. Although the migrant workers worked under extremely exploitative conditions, that returned were able to raise their standard of living and thus the prospect of working abroad attracted many.
TEBA stopped recruiting people sometime between 1989 and 1990 after an aeroplane carrying returnees crushed. Since then, there have been a number of difficulties in re-introducing the system despite the fact that many people are still interested in it. The gap created by the end of centrally organized mine migration to South Africa and other countries has led to the development of informal and illegal smuggling rackets taking people across the border to these countries, according to the Development of Trafficking in Persons Legislation Report submitted to Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister, Prof. Peter Mutharika. The Malawi Law Commission, reviewing the country’s human trafficking statutes, has submitted the report.
The June 2009 TIP commends the Malawi government for taking significant steps to fighting human trafficking, observing that: “The Government of Malawi’s anti-trafficking law enforcement improved over the last year, though punishments of trafficking offenders remained weak, inconsistent and highly dependent on the knowledge level of the judges and prosecutors involved in the case.”
The country prohibits all forms of trafficking through existing laws, including the Employment Act and articles 135 through 147 and 257 through 269 of the Penal Code, though lack of specific anti-trafficking legislation allows for a range of potentially weak punishment to be imposed on convicted trafficking offenders.
There has been little research on the physical and psychological health consequences of women, children trafficked in Malawi, or Africa, but a study on The Physical, and psychological health consequences of women and adolescents trafficked in Europe points to dire consequences.
The study, titled ‘Stolen Smiles’ quotes one of the trafficked women, a Lithuanian citizen trafficked to London: “I feel like they have taken my smile and I can never have it back.”
The study, funded with support from the European Commission’s Daphne Programme, with additional funding from the International Organisation for Migration and Sigrid Rausing Trust, says 60% of the women victims reported being physically and/or sexually abused before they were trafficked while 95% reported physical and sexual violence while in the trafficking process. Fifty-eight percent reported physical injuries while 20% of the women reported that a relative knew their trafficker. There were also high levels of mental health problems, with 38% of the victims reporting suicidal thoughts and 58% reporting symptom levels of posttraumatic stress disorder upon entry into care.
Malawi is taking the necessary steps to end human trafficking, following increased efforts in drafting requisite laws. It is hoped that once passed into law, ‘Development in Trafficking in Persons draft Legislation could become the immediate tonic for current challenges in the country’s human trafficking legislation.

Facts on human trafficking
• Human trafficking affects men, women and children, centrally to conceptions that it affects only women and children.
• The International Labour Organisation reports that there are 12.3 million people in forced labour, bonded labour, forced child labour and sexual servitude.
• According to the United States Department of State, figures vary from study to study, and hover anywhere between 4 million to 25 million.
• A U.S Government-sponsored study in 2006 revealed that approximately 800, 000 people are trafficked within national borders.
• The Trafficking in Persons Report of June 2008 estimates that 80 per cent of transnational victims are women and girls, and up to 50 per cent are minors.
• Trafficking in persons is taken as a relatively low risk business, but if successful garners high payoff.
• According to International Police (Interpol), trafficking in women for sexual exploitation is a multi-billion-dollar business that involves citizens of most countries and helps sustain organized crime.
• Human trafficking has adverse physical and psychological health consequences for women, men and children.
• The June 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP) ranks Malawi on Tier 2, the ranking for countries whose governments do not fully comply with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to comply.
• Malawi has no express law on human trafficking.
• The Malawi Law Commission submitted a ‘Development of Trafficking in Persons Legislation’ to the Ministry of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in September 2009.
• The Malawi Network against Child Trafficking currently has 69 organisations. MNACT is a network of government (through the Ministry of Gender, Child and Community Development) and non-state actors aimed at facilitating anti-trafficking interventions in Malawi.



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Banja lamwana ozembetsedwa likufuna chilungamo

Banja la m’nyamata yemwe adamwalira mosadziwika bwino atatengedwa mozembetsedwa kupita m’dziko laSouth Africa lati likudikirabe tsiku Lomwe anthu omwe adakonza zaulendo ndiimfa yam’bale wawo adzaimbidwe mulandu ndi kufotokoza momwe zinthu zidayendera.
Banja laaChigada, lomwe limakhala m’taunishipi yaNdirande m’boma laBlantyre, lidaluza mwana wazaka 19, yemwe dzina lake lidali Panganani, mwanayu atatengedwa kupita m’dziko laSouth Africa ndimunthu mayi wina yemwe wakulira kuNdirande komweko.
Mayiyu, aChancy Kauta, akuti adabwera kumudzi kumathero achaka chatha kudzakhala nawo pamwambo omanga chiliza, ndipo adabwera ndimzungu wina wochokera m’dziko la New Zealand yemwe amakhala naye m’dziko laSouth Africa. Mzunguyu sakumudziwa dzina.
Malingana ndikufotokoza kwamkulu wake waPanganani, uyu ndiBlessings Chigada ndipo ali ndizaka 22 zakubadwa, m’ngono wake adapanga ubwenzi ndiChancy komanso mzunguyo mosadziwika bwino ndipo adayamba kutengana kulikonse kuphatikizapo malo azokopa alendo kunyanja.
“Kenako Panganani adayamba kumagona kunyumba kwaanthu awiriwa kukada; tikakamuitana amkakana kubwera. Kenako anthuwa adapanga zomupangira chiphaso choyendera (pasipoti) koma msuweni wathu yemwe amagwira ntchito kunthambi yopanga ziphaso zopitira m’maiko ena akunja adatitsina khutu,” adatero Panganani.
Panganani adanyamuka osatsanzika abale ake ndipo adafika kuCape Town m’dzikom laSouth Africa pa 19 Januwale chaka chino, ndipo mayi ake ndiabale adangomvera kwanzake wina wam’nyamatayu, yemwe adalandira lamya kuchokera kwaPanganani.
Panthawiyi mkuti bamboo ake a Panganani atamwalira popeza banjali limadalira amayi awo, omwe amapanga bizinezi yogulitsa tiyi.
M’chemwali waPanganani, Edna, nayenso akuthilira ndemanga pazaimfa yaPanganani. Edna akuti Panganani amkakonda kuvala mwachiyoo ndipo amkaotcha tsitsi, chinthu chomwe akuganiza kuti chidapangitsa Chancy ndimzunguyo kukhala naye chidwi, kenaka mkuyamba kumayenda naye kulikonse.
Malingana ndikufotokoza kwabanjali, Panganani adangokhala masiku owerengeka kuSouth Africa ndipo adagulitsidwa kwaanthu ena omwe adayamba kumuchita zamathanyula. Zimenezi zinapangitsa kuti m’nyamatayu ayambe kudwala ndipo kuchipatala adampeza kuti mamba yake imatupa.
“Posakhalitsa, tidangomva uthenga kuti mtembo waPanganani wafika kuChileka, koma sitikudziwa kuti adautumiza ndani.
Polankhula m’malo mwamfumu Chakana yam’deralo, m’modzi waalangizi amfumuyi a Jimmy Sikelo adati akukhulupilira kuti Chancy ndimzunguyo amagulitsa anthu komanso ziwalo, ndipo adapempha boma kuti lichitepo kanthu ndikubweretsa Chancy kuMalawi kuti adzafotokoze bwini zamomwe Pangagani adafera.
“Sikoyamba kuchitika zimenezi. M’tsikana wina yemwe adangochita kumene chinkhoswe adasiya Mwamuna wake ndikulondola Chancy kuSouth Africa. Chodabwitsa n’chokuti mpaka pano sitidamvepo kanthu kuchokera kwam’tsikanayu,” adatero aSikelo.
Chodabwitsa pankhaniyi n’chokuti chikalata chofotokoza zaimfa yaPanganani (Death Certificate) chomwe nambala yake ndiA08676451 ndipo adalemba ndiaBrigid Brennan akuchipatala chotchedwa C27 ICU Croote Schuur Hospital kuCape Town chikufotokoza kuti Panganani adamwalira pa10 Febuluwale, 2009.
Zikalata zina zikusonyeza kuti chilolezo choti thupi laPanganani libwelere kuno kumudzi adapereka ndiDr. D.H Bass, yemwe amayang’anira nthambi yaziwalo zaanthu pasukulu panthambi yaumoyo yaVan Gesondheld, Isebe Lezempilo.
“Chomwe ife tikufuna ndichilungamo basi. Tikufuna boma lichitepo kanthu popeza kudikira ndikowawa,” adatero Edna, Blessings akuvomereza.

Amalawi asamale ndichikho champira chadziko lonse
Akuluakulu odziwa bwino zankhani zotenga anthu mwachinyengo ndikuwagulitsa kapena kuwagwiritsa ntchito zogulitsa matupi m’maiko akunja (human trafficking) achenjeza aMalawi kutin akhale tchelu pomwe dziko laSouth Africa likukonzekera kudzapangitsa chikho chachikulu champira chadziko onse lapansi (World Cup).
Akuluakuluwa achenjeza anthu, makamaka am’madera akumidzi, kuti achenjere ndianthu omwe adziyenda m’midzi kufuna anthu oti akawagwirile ntchito zosadziwika bwino m’maiko akunja. Iwo akuti anthu oterewa amafotokoza zazinthu zachikoka, monga ntchito zamalipilo abwino ndidzina, chonsecho akufuna kuti akagwiritse ntchito Amalawi ngati akazi oyendayenda.
M’modzi mwaakuluakuluwa, mayi Esmie Tembenu omwenso ndimuweluzi wamkulu pabwalo lamilandu yaana kuSoche m’boma laBlantyre, akuti pomwe chikho chachikuluchi chikuchitikira kuAfrica kwanthawi yoyamba pakhalanso misika yaasungwana ongoyendayenda komanso yogulitsa ziwalo.
ATembenu adatin zimenezi zipangitsa kuti anthu ena adzibwera kuMalawi ndicholinga chofuna kudzapeza anthu, ena mwaanthuwa amatsekeledwa m’nyumba zochitira zachisembwere m’maiko ena kuti adzigona ndimakasitonmala aeniake amalowo, koma asungwanawo sapeza phindu lililonse popeza amachita zinthu mowakakamiza.
“Mpofunika kuchenjera kuopa kuti tingataye anthu ambiri kum’chitidwe ngati umenewu. Amalawi ayenera kukanena kupolisi koma kwaakuluakulu aboma akawona anthu akuwanyenyengelera zantchito ndizina popeza anthu oterewa akhoza kukhala gulu laanthu otenga ena mwachinyengo,” adatero a Tembenu.
Iwo adachenjezanso makolo kuti asapereke ana, makamaka amasiye ndiovutika, kwaanthu osawadziwa omwe angalonjeze kuti akalera anawo, ndipo adati nkhani zotenga ana zili ndimalamulo ake m’dziko muno ndipo anthu adzitsata zimenezi.
M’modzi waakuluakulu oweruza milandu m’dziko muno, ndipo amadziwikanso kwambiri kaamba kantchito yawo yoteteza ufulu waana, a Edward Twea adati mkofunika kuti dziko laMalawi liike ndondomeko zoteteza ana chikhochi chisadachitike.
“Mpofunika kuti dziko lino livomereze ndondomeko zokhudza ana zomwe zidapangidwa kuHague m’dziko laNetherlands. Zimenezi zidzapangitsa kuti ana obedwa m’dziko muno komanso maiko ena athe kupezedwa mosavuta ndikubwezedwa m’maiko awo,” adatero a Twea.
Iwo adati n’chomvetsa chisoni kuti ndianthu ochepa okha omwe amadziwa zamalamulo akasinthidwe maina komanso kholo kamwana. A Twea adati mkofunika kuti anthu ayambe kuphunzitsidwa zimenezi.
Nduna yazamalamulo, a Peter Mutharika, alonjeza kuti boma lichitapo kanthu poonetsetsa kuti laika malamulo okwanira okhudzana ndikuteteza anthu makamaka ana m’dziko muno.

Malamulo atsopano olimbana ndikuzembetsa anthu awapereka kuunduna wazachilungamo
Bungwe lomwe lidapatsidwa mphavu zounikanso malamulo ena adziko lino, lotchedwa Malawi Law Commission, mwezi waSepitembala chaka chino lidapereka malamulo omwe, ngati atavomerezedwa ndinyumba yaMalamulo, adzathandize kuthetsa m’chitidwe otenga anthu mwachinyengo mkumakawagwiritsa ntchito zina m’maiko ena komanso m’dziko mom’muno.
Ntchito yofuna kukhazikitsa malamulo ofotokoza zam’chitidwewu idayamba m’mwezi waNovembala 2004, ndipo yakhala ikupitlira zaka zonsezi. Koma tsopano dziko laMalawi lili ndimalamulo omwe lafufuza ndikukhazikitsa ndinthumwi zomwe zidapatsidwa mphavu ndiMalawi Law Commission kuunika bwino zamalamulo omwe angathandize kuthetsa m’chitidwewu kuno kuMalawi.
Ripoti lamalamulo atsopanowa adalipereka kwanduna yazachilungamo ndimalamulo, a Peter Mutharika, mwezi waSepitembala chaka chino. Malingana ndindondomeko yakakhazikitsidwe kamalamulo, malamulo omwe akufuna kukhazikitsidwa amaperekedwa kuunduna wazachilungamo, omwe omwe umaunika zinthu zomwe zalembedwa usadapereke malamulowo kunyumba yaMalamulo.
Nyumba yaMalamulo ndiyomwe ili ndimphavu zokana kapena kuvomereza malamulowo. Ikavomereza, m’tsogoleri wadziko amasayina ndipo malamulowo amayamba kugwira ntchito m’dziko.
Mwazina, malamulowo akufotokoza zolimbana ndim’chitidwewu komanso zamomwe anthu omwe apulumutsitsa kwaanthu omwe adawatenga angathandizidwire kuti abwerelensom moyo wakale. Malamulowo adzathandiza kupereka chilango chokhwima kwaogwidwa akuchita zimenezi.
Malawi ndilimodzi mwamaiko omwe adasainira ndondomeko zoteteza ana, amayi ndianthu onse kunkhanza zosiyanasiyana, ndipo malamulo omwe aperekedwa kuunduna wazachilunmgamowo athandiza kuti dziko lino lilumikizane ndimaiko ena polimbana ndim’chitidwe otenga anthu ndikuwagwiritsa ntchito zomwe sakufuna.kapenanso kugulitsidwa kumene.
M’tsogoleri wadziko laAmerica a Barack Obama walimbikitsa ntchito zolimbana ndim’chitidwewu, ndipo maiko ambiri kuphatikizapo Malawi akuchitapo kanthu pankhaniyi.
Ngakhale mabungwe nawo sakufuna kutsalira, ndipo aadakhazikitsa m’gwirizano wolimbana ndim’chitidwewu kudzera mubungwe laMalawi Network against Child Trafficking (MNACT). MNACT idakhazikitsidwa ndiboma kudzera muunduna waamayi, ana ndichitukuko chaanthu mogwilizana ndimabungwe omwe siaboma.
MNACT muli mabungwe makumi asanu ndilimodzi, mphambu zisanu ndizinayi (69).

Innovations Competition Accepting Entries until the End of this Week

For more information, please contact:
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Innovations Competition Accepting Entries until the End of this Week
Huge Response Exceeds Capacity of Phone Lines: Competition Urges Malawians to Submit Ideas via Email & Website

(Lilongwe, Nov. 17th 2009) On the 30th of October 2009, Concern Worldwide launched a competition to invite Malawians to share their ideas for how to overcome a significant barrier to getting maternal, newborn and child health care to the mothers and children who need it most. This is the first competition of its kind in Malawi that offers people from all communities and walks of life a unique opportunity to share their ideas.

Huge Response, but Ideas Still Welcome: How to Submit Entries
“The interest in the competition has been unexpectedly large—in fact, the volume of calls has exceeded the capacity of operators and phone lines.” Steven Zarnfaller, manager of the Concern Malawi Innovations for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health Initiative, says, “We are thrilled and we want all Malawians to know that we still welcome your ideas. We urge you to submit your ideas via email at innovations.malawi@concern.net or via the Innovations competition website www.imnch.org/Malawi, as our phone lines have been literally unable to keep up with the huge volume of calls.” If you are based in Lilongwe, call into our Innovations for Maternal Newborn and Child Health office in the West Wing, Arwa House, Capital City to collect an entry form.

The competition aims to find ideas for eliminating a barrier that stands in the way of improving the quality of health services in Malawi. While free health services are available throughout Malawi, many families, particularly pregnant women, women in labour, and those with sick children, are unwilling to use them.

A key barrier is that some families feel they do not receive the quality of healthcare services they expect. Some people worry about the quality of care they will receive or they are unwilling to use health care services because of negative past experiences.

The Innovations Competition runs until November 20, 2009.

The judges will be looking for bold ideas that have not been tried before, and the winning ideas will be those they believe will have the most impact on reducing the number of deaths of Malawi’s mothers and children.

To enter the competition, candidates are invited to submit their ideas via the Innovations website at www.imnch.org/Malawi or via email at innovations.malawi@concern.net. All submissions must be received by 20 November.

For more information, or to request an interview with Country Director A.K.M. Musha and/or Innovations Country Manager Steven Zarnfaller please contact:

Joseph Scott, Communications Officer
Office: +265 (0) 1 776811 | Mobile: +265 (0) 99 913 4949
Email: joseph.scott@concern.net

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How to Make Sense of Prostate Disease and Surgery

Nearly all men dread the very thought of needing prostate surgery for many good reasons. It is a "wakeup" to a man’s aging process and can be painful and embarrassing, with post-surgical consequences that are concerning, if not downright scary.

But before you enter the abysses of prostate surgery, you need to be armed with information. You need to know what to expect, what your options are and how the potential post-operative consequences, such as urinary incontinence and erectile dysfunction, will be handled. You are the patient, therefore you are in charge.

Prostate cancer is one of most common types of cancer in men. There are numerous treatment options from chemotherapy to radiation to surgery. Prostate cancer can affect anyone. Recently, Broadway composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was diagnosed with it, but the writer of mega hits including "Phantom of the Opera" and "Cats" has "vowed to return to the stage by the end of the year."

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Building hope from scratch

Rainer Mueller, German Ambassador to Malawi, is an honest man; one who acknowledges past mischief to link up to his present success.
“I used to run away from school, or skip some lessons, when I was doing Primary School back home,” reveals a man who now talks, and Malawi listens.
When he earlier last month shared his impressions of Malawi’s economic performance, and described it as hot-blooded, Capital Hill surely jumped with excitement at the positive voice of a man who rarely appraises government’s performance in public.
Mueller was lucky, though, because he later realized the importance of consistency in one’s school attendance and performance. Once he did that, he never looked back, while some of his peers fell into that childhood trap of coming to hasty conclusions and taking things for granted.
Conventional wisdom has it that we must think before we speak, and read before we think. That way, we will be able to think about something we don’t make up ourselves- a wise move at any age, but most especially before the Teens, when we are at the constant danger of coming to annoying conclusions.
Under-12s rarely get this, and end up skipping some lessons, or running away from school altogether. Quiet strange that Mueller, whose name never gets mentioned without the preceding, or accompanying, His Excellency title now, caught the drift of this wisdom at quiet a tender age, and new that school was the real future.
Fast-forward to 2009. The German Ambassador had a call of duty on Tuesday, October 27, and the place was Nangungu Primary School in the area of Senior Chief Makanjira, Mangochi. To reach his destination, he had to leave Lilongwe, the hub of diplomatic missions in Malawi, a bit earlier.
He saw a myriad of school pupils along the way, as he took the occasional glimpse through the window, to appreciate the greens around the countryside. It takes 1-and-a-half hour to travel 110 kilometres from Mangochi Boma to Makanjira. The road is half way tarred half way dust.
It was not the green he saw along the way that fascinated him; it was the children he saw walking to various schools, probably long-distance schools, that touched him. Because they reminded him of the past, when he could manage to skip some lessons without much ado.
He saw resolve in these Malawian children; the will to succeed. Back home, in Germany, they have the resources; it’s just that some children take those facilities for granted. They sit in the classroom and think about watching Television at home, or playing with home computers. They are in (state-of-the-art class rooms), yes, but their thoughts are elsewhere, outside.
In Malawi, the pupils have no resources. They have the will, for sure, and want to remain inside (the class room). Poverty and learning materials’ inadequacies force them out.
“In Africa, education means the future. That is what I have observed so far during my stay in Malawi. Education means the whole future to many people in this part of the world. In Europe the situation is different: we have the resources and everything, but people are increasingly thinking that education is nothing, a waste of time. I am touched by the spirit here,” Mueller told community members who gathered at Nangungu that Tuesday.
The community members, including traditional leaders and Member of Parliament for the area (Mangochi North constituency) Ibrahim Matola, were here to witness the handover ceremony of a school block by the German NGO, Reisende Werkschule Scholen. The organization’s Founder and Co-Chairman, Michael Von Studnitz, found bush where now stands Nangungu Primary School some six years ago.
Pupils were going to Mpilipili Primary School, some three kilometres from Nangungu. Through his organization, which started working in Malawi in 2001, pupils can now go to school within their vicinity. Not only that, the United Nations Children’s Fund saw that school blocks now stood where once lay pastureland, and drilled a borehole. Development begot more development, portable water for people.
The work of Reisende Werkschule Scholen is a puzzle, too, because the German children who do the construction work are themselves school drop outs back home. Drop outs who are helping in improving infrastructure development for Malawian pupils, while they found school useless and tiresome back home. Some life’s little puzzles are too ironic to behold.
“We are happy to contribute towards the development of Malawi through infrastructure development. Many things matter in education, top of which is the learning environment, availability of learning materials as well as distance from home to school. Without these, it will be an uphill task to meet the Millennium Development Goals and the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy,” said Studnitz.
Studnitz observed that Mangochi has for a long time topped the list of districts with high illiteracy rates, and said government could not manage to do all by itself.
Nangungu Primary School, like a little dream, is a junior primary school with classes from Standard 1-4. Studnitz and German children want it to grow, like a dream that comes to fruition, and become a full primary school.
They also want to promote cultural exchange. Studnitz felt that Malawi had a great culture. But so, too, is Germany. He said from the unrelenting Malawian spirit, one that prospers in inadequacy, the world could learn to use the little it has and change lives for the better.
Matola, like the community members who did traditional dances, was thrilled. He acknowledged that government could not do all the donkey work without external assistance. Education, like all other sectors dependent on government spending, is under- funded. This goes contrary to the ever-growing population of pupils and students, further stretching scanty resources.
This has made the day shorter for most pupils and students, as schools start running two or three shifts of classes to accommodate them.
“This is a time bomb,” said Matola.

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http://voicesofafrica.africanews.com/site/Malawi_to_export_maize_to_Zimbabwe/list_messages/24649

Chinamwali chikusokoneza ana sukulu

Pamene boma likulimbikitsa ntchito yothandiza kuti ana ambiri adzipita
kusukulu, akuluakulu ena m’boma laMangochi akupitilizabe kupangitsa
miyambo yachinamwali ana asanatsekele sukulu.
Miyambo yoteleyi akuti ikumapitiliranso ana atatsegulira sukulu,
chinthu chomwe chakwiitsa mkulu oyang’anira maphunziro m’sukulu
zapulaimale m’dera (Zoni yamaphunziro) laMpilipili m’dera lamfumu
yaikulu Makanjira m’bomalo.
Mkuluyu, a Bassanio Kachere, adauza mtolankhani wathu sabata latha
kuti m’chitidwewu wapangitsa kuti nambala yaana omwe akupita kusukulu
ichepe.
Iwo adapereka chitsanzo chasukulu yaNangungu, yomwe adati yakhudzidwa
ndikuchepa kwaana opita kusukulu nthawi imene kuli zinamwali.
“Zinamwali zochitika nthawi yasukulu zikusokoneza maphunziro a ana,
ndipo zikutikhudza kwambiri kuona kuti pali anthu ena omwe akupangabe
zinamwali nthawi yasukulu. Tikupempha makolo kuti awonetsetse kuti
sakutumiza ana awo kuchinamwali nthawi yasukulu,” adatero aKachere.
AKachere adatinso china chomwe chikulepheretsa ana kupita kusukulu
ndim’chitidwe wamakolo ena otumiza ana kuthengo kokaweta mbuzi m’malo
moti anawo apite kusukulu.
“Amenewa ndimavuto aakulu. Komabe tikhoza kuwathetsa pogwira limodzi
ntchito ndianankungwi poonetsetsa kuti zinamwali zisamachitike nthawi
yasukulu,” adatero aKachere.
M’madera ambiri m’dziko muno, miyambo ngati chinamwali ikumachitika
ana akakhala patchuthi chasukulu, ndipo ikumatha anawo asanatsegulire
mlingo ophunzilira wina. Kusunga chikhalidwe ndimsanamira zamtundu
uliwonse waanthu, ngakhale anamkungwi ndiena alindi udindo
owonetsetsakuti zimenezi sizikusokoneza chitukuko m’dziko.

Dziko laGermany lilonjeza kutukula maphunziro kuMalawi

Kazembe wadziko laGermany m’dziko muno, a Rainer Mueller, adati boma
lake ndilokhudzidwa ndikutalika kwamitunda yomwe ophunzira ambiri
am’madera akumidzi amayenda kuti apeze nyumba zophunzirako, ndipo
adalonjeza kuti Dziko lake litenga nawo mbali pantchito yochepetsa
Mavuto amtunduwu.
AMueller, omwe amayankhula lachiwiri pasukulu yapulaimale yaNangungu
m’dera lamfumu yaikulu Makanjira m’boma laMangochi, adati n’zomvetsa
chisoni kuti ana pamene anthu ambiri kumaiko akuUlaya amagwa ulesi
ndinkhani zasukulu, anthu akuAfrica, makamaka dziko laMalawi,
amavutika kwambiri kuti apeze maphunziro abwino.
“Ine ndimakhala okhudzidwa kwambiri ndimavuto omwe ana akuno kuMalawi
amakumana nawo kuti apeze maphunziro abwino, chonsecho ana ambiri
akuUlaya akusiya sukulu masiku ano, ndipo amanena kuti sukulu ilibe
phindu. Boma laGermany lionesetsa kuti lachulukitsa thandizo lomwe
limapereka kunkhani zamaphunziro,” adatero a Mueller.
Iwo adaulula kwaanthu omwe adasonkhana kudzaonerera mwambo opereka
nyumba yophunziriramo kwaana apaNangungu kuti nthawi zina nawonso
amkathawa kusukulu ali mwana poganiza kuti maphunziro alibe phindu,
koma asintha maganizo oterewa ataona m’mene anthu akuAfrica
amakhulupirira maphunziro.
“Tigwira ntchito limodzi ndiboma laMalawi pantchito imeneyi, ndipo
pempho lathu kwaaMalawi ndilokuti adzisamala zinthu zopatsidwa ngati
makalasi ophunziliramo kuti anthu ambiri akhale ndichidwi
chothandiza,” adatero a Mueller.
Bungwe lina loima palokha m’dziko laGermany, lotchedwa Reisende
Werkschule Scholen, lidasankha kumagwira ntchito zomanga makalasi
ophunzilira kuMakanjira, ndipo limapereka buloko yachitatu pasukuluyi.
Bungweli lidamanganso nyumba yamphunzitsi wamkulu ndiyosungiramo
zipangizo zapasukulu.
Mkulu wabungweli, a Michael Von Studnitz, adati bungwe lawo likufuna
kumanga nyumba zophunzirira zambiri m’dziko muno, ndipo adawonjezera
kuti vuto lakuchuluka kwaanthu omwe akusiya sukulu likukula kamba
kosowa nyumba ndizipangizo zabwino zophunzilira.
AStudnitz adati n’cholinga chabungwe lawo kutukula maphunziro m’dziko
muno, chinthu chomwe phungu waderali, lomwe lili kumpoto kwaboma
laMangochi, a Ibrahim Matola adati chithandiza kuchepetsa Mavuto omwe
ana amakumana nawo.
AMatola adati boma lokha silingakwanitse kupanga zinthu zones zomwe
mzika zadziko zimafuna, choncho mabungwe akunja adali ndintchito
yaikulu yoonetsetsa kuti akuthandiza boma.
Phunguyu adagwirizana ndiaMueller pankhani yosamalira katundu
opatsidwa, ndipo adachenjeza kuti mabungwe amakhumudwa ndikusiya
kugwira ntchito m’madera kambakaumbanda ndikusasamala zipangizo.
Reisende Werkschule Scholen idayamba kugwira ntchito kuMangochi
m’chaka cha2001, ndipo lidamangaponso nyumba zophunzirilimo
kuMonkeybay.

Poem: After all the hearts and love

Love runs,
When you nought it
And sleeps,
Once grabbed under the collar,
And wobbled to the ground.

It run like luck more than once before,
As I gathered the pieces of reason,
And trumpeted the piano of nothingness.
Once searched like aan Arabic fugitive,
It never rests until it finds the nest of the heart.

The heart, too,
Like love can run,
Until you get enough of running on life's little tracks,
And seek rest under the retirement tree.
And feel tired like the heart and love too.

The big shaddow,
After all the love and hearts have run and rested,
Comes in reaps and jumps,
All that once was,
To grab home.

Look now my sons and daughters,
Mark now my words my world,
As you now brave to steal a look down,
Upon the once gentle, mighty hearts of love,
Stilled at last.

Comment: Shame on church women

Sentiments emanating from Malawi Council of Churches' Women's Desk are not only disgraceful but disparaging.
How dare they say, of all things in this world, that Mzamose Chibambo is not being Malawian by having sex in the Big Brother Africa Revolution House? Is sex unMalawian? Why on earth do our churches officiate marriage ceremonies, for that matter?
What are marriages for? Sex, of course. Well, Mr. Richard Leviano Simon Chirombo is not saying that youths should 'enjoy' sex outside the bond of marriage, but, rather, that sex in natural in marriage. Whatever marriage that is!
Well, Mzamose Chibambo, a.k.a Mzamo, drinks like fish. I agree. But is drinking unMalawian? I thought that was part of some cultures, Ngoni culture, which is my culture, being one? So what's wrong with Mzamo enjoying herself?
The one thing about life is that we are entittled to our own choices, either good or bad. It is not up to me, or you, to judge. Fairness is the name of the game.
By the way, Mzamo has been in the House for a little more than 60 days now, and only had sex once. You are outside the Big Brother Africa Revolution House, yes, and how many times have you had sex during the past 60 days? That includes sex with your girlfrind, boyfriend, wife or husband. Hypocrites.
One thing that fascinates me is the fact that we have so many Religious Channels around- TB Joshua, Joyce Meyer Ministries, Elijah Faith Ministries, and many more- why, of all channels did the women of God choose to watch Channel 198 or 199 for Big Brother? Hypocrites.
So, you are the guys who were watching the famed but now defunct 'Shower Hour'in the House? Your works have come into public view now, and you must be named and shamed.
The women also said something against legalising prostitution, saying it would affect their families. Now I get the point. These women don't trust their religious, some of whom are pastors and Apostles, husbands. I get it.
Go tell your husbands to be faithful, or use condoms if they can't. Period. Don't bother us; we love Big Brother Africa, the Revolution.

Churches condemn Mzamose Chibambo

The Women's Desk of the Malawi Council of Churches has condemned Malawi's representative in the Big Brother Africa Revolution House, accusing her of doing everything unMalawian.
But Gender and Community Development Minister, Patricia Kaliat, fired back at the Women's Desk yesterday, accusing the holier-than-thou women of doing the same things they are accusing Mzamose Chibambo of, behind closed doors.
The women asked government to influence the selection of future representatives, a suggestion Kaliati quashed, describing it as censorship.
"Well, what you are asking for is counterproductive," said Kaliati.

France’s Prince Albert visits Malawi

Prince Albert of the Monaco of France visited various development initiatives he has been funding in Malawi this week, and explored means through which France may establish an embassy in Malawi after meeting State President Bingu wa Mutharika.
Prince Albert expressed satisfaction with the quality of infrastructure put up using funds various Malawian organizations receive from him, taking exception of a maternity wing in Dowa district.
“It is the responsibility of all of us to help each other and make life better,” said Albert.
He said he would continue to channel funds towards various causes in Malawi, hoping to save many lives of people otherwise condemned to fateful devices.
Malawi still ranks as one of the countries with highest mortality and morbidity rates in the world, though efforts of people like Prince Albert in putting up sexual reproductive health infrastructure seem to be bearing fruit.
The Ministry of Health has recorded a decrease in the number of women who die from child-birth related complications from 984 to less than 900.

World War veterans receive K200 (US41.25) per month

The government of Malawi pays soldiers who fought in the Second World War K200 (US$1.25) as pension benefits.
This is hardly enough to buy two Kilogrammes of the staple maize flour, let alone sustain the veterans- people who sacrificed a lot to a achieve world peace.
Some of the veterans, only 32 now remain in Malawi at the moment, expressed disappointment with the amount of pension benefits they get monthly, describing it as a “mockery to our efforts”.
Brigadier General John Msonthi, one of the Malawi Defense Force soldiers who have been soliciting help for the veterans, confirmed the development and figure.
Msonthi blamed lack of resources for the veterans’ predicament.
“We really need help because current resources are not enough,” said Msonthi.

World War veterans receive K200 (US41.25) per month

The government of Malawi pays soldiers who fought in the Second World War K200 (US$1.25) as pension benefits.
This is hardly enough to buy two Kilogrammes of the staple maize flour, let alone sustain the veterans- people who sacrificed a lot to a achieve world peace.
Some of the veterans, only 32 now remain in Malawi at the moment, expressed disappointment with the amount of pension benefits they get monthly, describing it as a “mockery to our efforts”.
Brigadier General John Msonthi, one of the Malawi Defense Force soldiers who have been soliciting help for the veterans, confirmed the development and figure.
Msonthi blamed lack of resources for the veterans’ predicament.
“We really need help because current resources are not enough,” said Msonthi.

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Moving Beyond Gender as Usual
In this analysis, the Center for Global Development’s HIV/AIDS Monitor argues that despite well-meaning global strategies and policies, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, and the World Bank’s Africa Multi-Country AIDS Program have not yet been able to turn them into systematic programming that addresses the needs of women and girls.


Assessing the integration of gender and human rights in HIV-related documents and processes in selected Southern African countries , Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, 2009

The Female Condom - Improving gender equality in the fight against HIV & AIDS, CAI HIV & AIDS Ad Hoc - September 2009





Botswana
Perceptions of couple HIV counseling and testing in Botswana: A stakeholder analysis , Patient Education and Counseling, In Press, Corrected Proof, August 2009

Why HIV/AIDS prevention strategies fail in Botswana: considering discourses of sexuality, Development Southern Africa, Volume 22, Issue 3 September 2005
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Malawi
Comparison of Projected and Actual Outcomes of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Malawi, 1990–2000 , PLoS ONE 4(8), 2009
Resumption of sexual activity and regular menses after childbirth among women infected with HIV in Malawi , International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, In Press, Corrected Proof, September 2009

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Mozambique
Abuse of HIV/AIDS-relief funds in Mozambique, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 9, Issue 9, September 2009 (free registration)

Interrogating Culture , Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in Namibia and Mozambique, SAFAIDS, 2006
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South Africa

The Danger of Denying HIV , Newsweek, 24 October 2009
Rapid Assessment of HIV Risk Behavior in Drug Using Sex Workers in Three Cities in South Africa, AIDS and Behavior, Volume 13, Number 5 / October, 2009

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Swaziland
Assessing the integration of gender and human rights in HIV-related documents and processes in selected Southern African countries , Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, 2009
HIV-TB in Swaziland: A Deadly Co-Infection Epidemic , Medicins Sans Frontieres, 28 October 2009

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Zimbabwe
Working with Men and Boys: Emerging strategies from across Africa to address Gender based violence and HIV/AIDS , Sonke Gender Justice Network 2009
More Zimbabweans turn to circumcision , Zimbabwe Telegraph, 15 October 2009

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Understanding HIV-1 Incidence in Eastern and Southern Africa , UNAIDS 2009
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World Diabetes Day Coming on November 14, 2009

Dear Press Representative
In order to assist you in preparing your stories and reports for World Diabetes Day 2009, we have prepared this handy guide below. While the list is not exhaustive, we have provided links and materials for you to find more in-depth information (latest prevalence figures, clinical guidelines, education and prevention information, info about the campaign and country-by-country resources). Please feel free to print this guide and to contact us at anytime for more information and materials.
Kind regards
Kerrita and Merry
World Diabetes Day Media Team

Diabetes Prevalence
According to latest data released by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF), diabetes now affects 285 million people worldwide costs the world economy at least US$376 billion in 2010, or 11.6% of total world healthcare expenditure. A further 344 million are at risk of developing diabetes (pre-diabetes). If nothing is done to reverse the epidemic, IDF predicts that by 2030, 435 million people will live with the disease as at a cost projected to exceed US$490 billion. IDF’s World Diabetes Day campaign, faced with these alarming numbers, aims to establish access to diabetes education as a right for all people with diabetes, to promote greater awareness of the risk factors and warning signs of diabetes, and encourage best-practice sharing in diabetes prevention.
· Every 10 seconds a person dies from diabetes-related causes.
· Every 10 seconds two people develop diabetes.
· Every 30 seconds a limb is lost to diabetes
· Each year a 7 million people develop diabetes
· Each year 4 million deaths are attributable to diabetes
· Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of global death by disease.

World Diabetes Day – 14 November

WHEN: World Diabetes Day is celebrated on 14 November, a date chosen to mark the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, who is credited with the discovery of insulin. An official United Nation’s Day, World Diabetes Day is represented by the blue circle logo that is the global symbol of diabetes.

WHO: World Diabetes Day is a campaign led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and its 212 member associations in 163 countries and territories. Created by IDF and the World Health Organization in 1991, World Diabetes Day became an official United Nations Day in 2007 thanks to a UN resolution that calls on all member states to organize events to mark the day. The World Diabetes Day campaign is supported by 14 official partners: Abbott Diabetes Care, AstraZeneca, Boston Scientific, Bristol-Myers Squibb, LifeScan, Eli Lilly, Medtronic, Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), Novartis, Novo Nordisk, Pfizer, Roche, Sanofi Aventis and Takeda.

THEME FOR 2009 – 2013: Diabetes Education and Prevention. Detailed explanations are found here (http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/en/the-campaign/diabetes-education-and-prevention)

WHERE: Celebrated globally in over 163 countries. Hundreds of events will take place worldwide to mark the day, from individual acts of celebration, group and community-based activities to governmental events. A country-by-country list of activities is available here with local organizer’s contact information - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/events/upcoming

WEBSITE and ONLINE: The Official Campaign website is trilingual and provides materials, information and a country-by-country list of activities taking place on or around World Diabetes Day
· English - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/
· French - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/fr
· Spanish - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/es

· Twitter- www.twitter.com/wdd
· Facebook-http://tinyurl.com/o7o6kf (EN); http://tinyurl.com/yfd5eyj (FR) and http://tinyurl.com/yfpu9kg
· YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/WorldDiabetesDay

ABOUT WDD and DIABETES
· WDD Press kit: available in English, French and Spanish - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/en/media/press-materials/press-kit
· IDF Diabetes Atlas 4th Edition, International Diabetes Federation, 2009: Diabetes resource released on October 19 which charts Diabetes prevalence for 216 countries and territories, provides economic costs, political solutions and general information about diabetes. Available free at www.diabetesatlas.org
o Country by country stats - http://www.diabetesatlas.org/map


IMAGERY
· LOGO: available in over 60 languages here - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/en/materials/logo
· POSTERS: 3 Official campaign posters are available in 15 languages - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/en/materials/campaign-posters-0

BLUE MONUMENT CHALLENGE: IDF began lighting monuments in blue (the colour of the blue circle diabetes symbol) on World Diabetes Day in 2007.
· 2009 Monuments Lighting: – a country-by-country list of monuments lighting is available here - http://www.worlddiabetesday.org/activities/wdd-monument-challenge (More than 500 monuments and iconic buildings have already confirmed participation on November 14. They include: Table Mountain in South Africa, the London Eye in the United Kingdom, the Burj al Arab in the United Arab Emirates, Christ the Redeemer in Brazil, the Hofburg in Austria, the Alamo and Empire State Building in the USA and Tokyo Tower in Japan. Across Japan close to 60 monuments will light in blue; 82 will light in Argentina, 34 in Kazakhstan and 21 in the USA.
· World Diabetes Day in Pictures – pictures of monuments and other WDD activities - http://www.flickr.com/groups/wdd/
· Hi-Res Photos: For hi-res photos of monuments please contact us at media@idf.org or call +32-2-543 1639.

EVIDENCE BASED RESOURCES: 2009 data
· IDF Diabetes Atlas 4th Edition - http://www.diabetesatlas.org/
· IDF Clinical Guidelines on Diabetes Care - http://www.idf.org/clinical-practice-guidelines
· IDF Diabetes Education Guidelines, Curriculums, Standards and Programmes - http://www.idf.org/Diabetes_Education
· IDF Prevention Material - http://www.idf.org/idf-consensus-type-2-diabetes-prevention
FOR ALL MEDIA REQUESTS: Please contact the World Diabetes Day Media Team
Kerrita McClaughlyn
Media Relations Manager, IDF
Office: +32-2-5431639
Mobile: +32-487 530 625
Email: media@idf.org
Merry Rivas Gonzalez
Spanish Media Coordinator, IDF
Mobile: +44-7737-666495
Email: media@idf.org
About IDF
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) is an umbrella organization of 212 member associations in than 163 countries and territories, representing over 285 million people with diabetes, their families, and their healthcare providers. The mission of IDF is to promote diabetes care, prevention and a cure worldwide. Its main activities include education for people with diabetes and healthcare professionals, public awareness campaigns and the promotion and exchange of information. IDF is a non-governmental organization in official relations with WHO and associated to the United Nations’ Department of Public Information. For more information, please visit www.idf.org and follow us at twitter.com/IntDiabetesFed

Kerrita McClaughlyn | Media Relations Manager
tel +32-2-5431639 | mob +32-487-530 625 | Kerrita.McClaughlyn@idf.org


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Mzamose Chibambo, please enjoy your sex in BBA House

There is debate going on about Malawi’s representative in the Big Brother Africa Revolution House, Mzamose Chibambo, especially about her sexual escapades.
Malawians think they are holier than thou but the truth is that the lady really rocks. Mzamo, as she is commonly called, is bringing the money home.
Just one question for haters: Mzamo has had sexual intercourse once, ever since she went into the house, only once: How many times have you have sex during the time Mzamo has been in the house?
Hypocrites

A sample of Fresh Air Facts: what you will get on the website

Clear Vision, Fresh Air




News Facts
One out of four school children in the U.S. has vision problems, and 86% do not get their vision checked before age 12.

Many Fresh Air children do not have access to affordable vision care. Glasses break, are too expensive to replace, or are never prescribed in the first place. And often as a result, children's performance in academics, sports and activities suffers.

For the fifth summer in a row, OneSight offered to bring their traveling optical clinic to all five Fresh Air Fund camp.

Together with OneSight's Vision Vans – and a team of local doctors and volunteers, OneSight provides free eye exams and eyewear to thousands of children in need each year.

This summer at Fresh Air camp, OneSight's staff screened 3,295 children and counselors, gave 1,757 eye exams, and made 1,629 pairs of glasses, with 1,458 of them on-site and 171 specially driven in. The team stayed at Camp Hayden-Marks for two camp sessions, to make sure every child who needed the gift of sight was screened.



Although you might think some children would be reluctant to be prescribed glasses, most of them are delighted. They've been missing out on the world around them for too long. (Being able to pick out their own frames helps, too.)

Our friends at OneSight told us about a boy at Camp Mariah who ran to the Vision Van before the team had even begun setting up in the morning.

“You guys have the van, right,” he said, clapping and jumping up and down. “The one that I can get glasses from?”


We thank OneSight and you, for helping inner-city children receive the services they need.


2009 Summer Facts

2009 Fresh Air camp attendees: 3,000


2009 Friendly Town participants: nearly 5,000


Children who participate in our year-round programming: 2,000


Percent of children who are invited back to their Friendly Town families: 65%


Friendly Town state volunteer coordinators: 500

Percent of Fresh Air parents who say The Fresh Air Fund meets or exceeds their expectations: 90%


Host a Child

Thanks to host families who open up their homes for up to two weeks each summer, children growing up in New York City’s toughest neighborhoods have experienced the joys of Fresh Air vacations.

More than 65% of all children are reinvited to stay with their host family, year after year.

Fresh Air Fund Host Families

There is no such thing as a "typical" host family. If you have room in your home - and your heart - to host a child, you could be one too.

Learn More

Fresh Air Fund Children

Fresh Air children are boys and girls, six to 12 years old, who reside in low-income communities in New York City and are eager to experience the simple pleasures of life outside the city.




Donate
You can give a child the experience of a
lifetime with your gift to The Fresh Air Fund!

Every year, The Fresh Air Fund gives thousands of inner-city children the priceless gift of fun - and opens the door to a lifetime of opportunities.

Whether it's a two-week trip to visit a volunteer host family, or a fun-filled and educational stay at one of our camps, our programs make for unforgettable memories - and open a world of new friendships and fresh possibilities.

We are a not-for-profit agency and depend on tax-deductible donations from people like you to keep our vital programs flourishing.

Donate online now






Fresh Air Fund in the News
Invaluable Volunteers - New York Times - September 6, 2009

In 2009, hundreds of volunteers have been tutoring and mentoring adolescents in our Career Awareness Program. More children had volunteer tutors this year than ever before.


NY City Kids Dive Into Maine - WCSH-TV - August 10, 2009

The park donated free passes to The Fresh Air Fund... allowing about a hundred kids and their host families into the park. For years organizers with the . . .

Local family welcomes child from inner city for seventh visit - Williamsport Sun-Gazette - August 8, 2009

Thanks to The Fresh Air Fund program, Getgen's wish came true. The Newberry family welcomed Cynthia Sarmiento, a 15-year-old from Queens, NY, . . .

Fresh Air Fund helps thousands

This past summer, OneSight reached out to The Fresh Air Fund and helped over 3,000 NYC children with a traveling optical clinic. OneSight was able to screen all Fresh Air campers and if necessary, provide free glasses to anyone who needed them. I thought that this would be an issue you and the readers of Zachimalawi would care about. I was hoping you could post a mention to help this worthy cause. I've created a social media microsite which explains everything:

http://freshairvision.org

By supporting The Fresh Air Fund we are able to partner with organizations like OneSight to provide free eye exams and eyewear to the children who need them each year. Please let me know if you are able to post or have any questions, and if you could send me the link that would be fantastic.

Malawi to hold Open Christmass Awards

A group of Malawian civil society organisations trading under the name Shire Infortainment Group have this year organised the Christmas Open Awards, according corporate institutions and organisation an opportunity to reward their customers, employees and heroes or heroines.
Maynard Nyirenda, one of the group's business partners told Zachimalawi the awards would help Malawians appreciates their fellow beings, unlike current trends where jealosy and backbiting reign.
"Other countries in SADC (Southern African Development Community) have held these events successfully; why can't we?" queried Nyirenda.
He cited South Africa, where corporate institutions reward their customers, clients, partners, employees in a special way. The event will take place on December 16, and will be beamed live on Malawi Television.

Lack of resources leaves 12, 000 blind

Malawi is facing a race against time to cure 12, 000 patients made blind from preventable illnesses.
Ministry of Health officials acknowledge the country was grappling with an artificial blindness problem, but say efforts were being made to reverse the situation.
Joseph Msosa, Chief Eye Specialist in the Ministry of Health, said the common form of blindness was that coming as a result of cataract, a health condition that, if untreated, leads into total blindness. It can, however, be reversed through eye surgery.
“We currently have 20, 000 people who are blind as a result of this condition, of which we have only been able to operate on 8, 000. We don’t have the necessary financial resources to operate on the remaining 12, 000,” said Msosa.
This means countless more days of no sight for people who deserve nothing more but sight.
Other unconfirmed reports indicate that there may be more than 100, 000 people with cataract, but too much reliance of Health Surveillance Assistants means many more people suffering from the condition remain unaware that they can be cured.

Malawi has 32 living World War veterans

Malawi is remaining with only 32 retired soldiers who fought with guns and courage during the Second World War, out of the 300, 000 Malawians who took part in that dreaded affair.
Malawi Defence Force records indicate that the remaining soldiers stay at Cobbe Baracks in Zomba, Moyale in Mzuzu, and in Malawi's capital city, Lilongwe. They fought a hard, long war, and that should make them proud. Yet, they lack the basic necessities at the places they currently stay in, and are in constant need of more resources from a society that takes confort in forgetting the sacrifices these great men made.
One of the remaining soldiers, Swedi Holario, said the was happy to have contributed towards a peaceful world, and hopes the world continues to live in peace.
Malawi Sunday joined the rest of the world in commemorating popy week.

Fistula leaves women discriminated

Women gather at Zomba Central Hospital in Southern Malawi in hundreds. It is not a social gathering, though one condition renders them peers and leaves them united.
Welcome to the Sexual Reproductive Health Ward at the referral public health institution for people from Zomba, Machinga, Mangochi, Balaka and Thyolo districts; common here, among these sad but hopeful women, is a condition termed 'Fistula'.
Fistula is a condition that arises in women who may have delayed to go to the hospital when time for labour approached, or those who delivered children when they thought they were strong mentally, but their bodies were too tender for such an orduous task.
Their condition makes them one because they all suffer from one societal vice: stigma and discrimination.
Mercy Chunda remembers the time she lived as a happily married woman in Machinga, and enjoyed the support of her husband Jimmy. Now, she is an outcast because of her condition, which makes her loose hold of her urinal muscles.
The end result is uncontrolled leakage of urine. This condition sees no place or status in society, and comes with some heavy smell that prompts people to shun those in this situation.
"I, and the other women in this room, are discriminated against because of the smell arising from our condition. The most painful moment in my life was when my husband told me he no longer wanted me; he said I smelt like pigs. Since then, I have been stuck at this place, hoping for a better tomorrow and reunion with my husband," said Chunda.
As it is, she still loves him.
"A lot".
Juliana Lunguzi, a reproductive health officer at UNFPA-Malawi, feels for the women, and hopes for a day society will stop frawning and discriminating women caught on the wrong side of sexual reproductive health.
"It is a sad situation but the good thing is that we are trying. UNFPA is helping these women buy making sure that they get operated on. A lot needs to be done to avert the situation," said Lunguzi.
Zomba Central Hospital Clinical Officer, Edwin Gondwe, said the institution operates on four patients each week, something that initiates the return of four women back home weeekly.
How about the rest?
"We are doing all we can to make sure that we aperate on all of them, as they come. The problem is often that resources do not permit us," said Gondwe.
He asked society to treat the women well, hoping, like Lunguzi, that ten years from now, Fistula will be history- like the urine that came uncontrolled, but stopped at the stroke of a knife for those cured from the condition.