Ward presents the cheque * In the course of our business, we realised that there are few ladies in the technical field * As a tech company, we have taken an initiative to motivate girls to venture into ICT as a way of bridging the gap * Girls should be encouraged to take part in driving the digital economy * We have been running free training — dubbed ‘Girls in ICT’ — over the past years and this is…
Offering words of encouragement * Plans are underway to distribute up to 1,000 Abwenzi Dignity kits and other items to various camps in southern Malawi * We are still receiving monetary donations through our Go Fund Me page, https://gofund.me/e556f956 * As Blantyre District Council decommissioned 65 of 92 camps which started from March 27 By Duncan Mlanjira, Maravi Express & Memory Chatonda, MANA Malawi Women in Diaspora Network has honoured its pledge to assist survivors of the Cyclone Freddy-induced…
The MoU that was signed in March * Total number of scholarship seats available are 50 which are covered under Sharda CSR initiatives * Applicants for Bachelors programmes should have Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) or its equivalent * Obtained in the last four years with an aggregate of not more than 36 points and credits in English and other five subjects * Commencement of the new session is July, 2023 and last date of application letters is…
Andhra Pradesh Syed Anwarul Huda, Indian Police Service IPS (Rtd) exhorting Muslims to donate Zakat in Hyderabad, Telangana State, India * Wealthy Muslims in Malawi are encouraged by several Muslim organizations to pay Zakat to alleviate poverty among the poor * Zakat can be paid in cash — 2.5% of annual income or on farm produce if it reaches the required limit for payment of Zakat By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui The Iftar Get-Together by Zakat Centre India (ZCI) was…
* One or two of the people were being treated as typhoid fever and had come there from different places * While the three others are being treated as adult measles * The first two who presented with bleeding are doing well as all the blessing has stopped * The other three family members did not present with any bleeding By Duncan Mlanjira Mzuzu Central Hospital reported on Thursday, March 6, that it has isolated 5 people with suspected…
* To take stock of research done and recommendations made on Loss and Damage * Generate key recommendations for setting up and operationalizing the Santiago Network on Loss and Damage By Duncan Mlanjira Over two weeks after the passage of Cyclone Freddy, whose effects devastated Malawi that claimed 511 lives; with at least 533 still missing; 1,724 injured and 564,239 people displace and living in 577 camps, Malawi’s Civil Society Network on Climate Change (CISONECC) will host the first…
* The 17th-century works will be accompanied by a first collected edition of Shakespeare’s Poems * The esteemed works will head to the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair which runs from April 27 to 30 * We feel hugely privileged to be able to offer these landmark works for sale in the 400th anniversary year of the First Folio * We cannot recall the last time in living memory that a bookseller offered all four folios and the…
* Bern’s clinical, programmatic and research work in the past decade has focused on drug resistant TB treatment * His current research work includes population pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of anti-TB drugs * Exploring use of volumetric absorptive microsampling techniques for measuring anti-TB drug levels * And using small hair samples to quantify cumulative anti-TB drug exposure By Duncan Mlanjira UK-based Malawian doctor, Bern Thomas Nyang’wa — who is director of medical services for Medicins Sans Frontier (MSF) — has…
* Japan support eases pressure on schools as evacuation camps * Tanzania delivers second consignment of relief items Maravi Express The Republic of Zimbabwe has supported Malawi immediate need of restoration following the Cyclone Freddy-induced disaster with words of hope to all survivors, saying it is their “hope that Malawi will be healed and restored. The country delivered its donation of 300 through Zimbabwe High Commissioner to Malawi, Nancy Saungweme, who said the support is a sign of solidarity…
The Minister being interviewed live by YONECO Community Radio * Together we need to share ideas and make our radio stations relevant to aspirations of Malawians * And most importantly make our radio stations economically viable By Duncan Mlanjira At the commemoration of this year’s World Radio Day, whose theme was Radio & Peace, Minister of Information & Digitalisation, Moses Kunkuyu emphasized that radio stations, especially community ones, have the responsibility and the power to build peaceful communities and…