The coordination meetings are underway. Those of us who have never met before are getting to know one another even as we assess the situation here in Malawi.
Today was one of the best days of my mission. I held a one-day training with 18 local community-based organizations—the real foot soldiers—around community feedback mechanisms.
Record-breaking Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi in March, killing hundreds and displacing more than 500,000. Many schools were washed away; others were turned into temporary housing.
KAMPALA | April 27, 2023 ― The Rockefeller Foundation, an American private philanthropy, donated USD $100,000, which Makerere University will use towards the construction of a new School of Public …
Malawi women pound maize to help feed their displaced families in Phalombe District. More than 500,000 people were displaced by Cyclone Freddy, which pummeled the country in March. Climate change has made storms like Freddy more frequent and intense.
When In Malawi, Cyclone Freddy hit Malawi in March, the storm killed hundreds, displaced more than 500,000, and left overwhelmed rescue workers burrowing through the mud with their bare hands. Catastrophic flash floods washed away lives, homes, crops and livestock.
All 40,000 students in Early Childhood Development Centers in Kenya’s Murang’a County get fortified whole grain porridge as a morning meal each school day, in a program run by Food4Education …
Rosaline Gitau grew up never having enough to eat. Her daughter faced the same challenge -- until a school lunch program disrupted generational poverty.
It was the day after the first rainfall in three months. Kenyan farmers sprang up on the fields like hopeful seedlings, praying aloud for more showers. After two and a half …