Note: The menu shows the 36 African countries where Africare has worked, not the other African countries.

 


(Sheila McKinnon photo)

Malawi

Africare began assisting Malawi in 1985. The first program was to help this agriculturally rich, yet economically underdeveloped, nation to strengthen its rural economy by strengthening the business-management capacities of its small-scale entrepreneurs. More than 800 jobs were created as the entrepreneurs successfully obtained and managed start-up loans from the Industrial Development Fund (Indefund). Beginning in 1990, water became a focal point of Africare's work in Malawi, with the first in a series of programs that combined increasing the availability of water with improving water-related sanitation — greatly advancing health on a continent where most preventable illness is transmitted through the water supply. Water resource development remained a priority in Malawi throughout the Southern African drought of 1992-1996. Today, Africare is focusing on longer-term development assistance.

Current Africare assistance to Malawi:

  • Food security
  • Irrigation
  • Promotion of drought-resistant seeds
  • Nutrition education
  • Water resource development
  • Water sanitation
  • Child survival
  • Home-based care for people living with HIV/AIDS
  • Emergency food distribution
  • Microenterprise development
  • Integrated poverty alleviation and wildlife conservation
  • Rural infrastructure development

           

(Updated, Dec. 18, 2007)