Annie Salama, DPD Director of Planning and Development, invited us to attend the District Council meeting. Forty-three district councilors were present and asked us questions. Our planning and hygiene concept received high praise.
Matias Kamanga, the CBO chair, Hilda Chonobvu, the secretary/recording secretary, Adams Milanzi, and our YOOW manager made a good impression and sparked great interest in our project among the district councilors and their staff.
We built a water tower next to the pump house. A 5,000-liter tank stands on its plateau at a height of 6.2 meters. Above it are solar panels that supply electricity for the pump. The pump is located at a depth of 37 meters and lifts the water 45 meters to fill the tank. From…
It will start on May 1, 2026: we are building the vocational training workshops. Following a tender process, we have commissioned Emmanuel General Construction from Kasungu as the contractor, together with the Chiuno NGO. Five workshops, including outdoor areas, will form a small center for manual work and collaboration. A tree stands in the center and grows…
For a long time, Africa was spared from the pandemic. Now it seems to have arrived in Malawi too (Der Tagesspiegel on 23 April 2020). The entry ban has been in place for some time, so our plans were also rendered obsolete. The planned lockdown is now pending in court because the population has put…
“For you. For us. For everyone.” This is the motto under which the National Day of Recognition (Ehrentag) is being held for the first time this year. Initiated by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, we will be celebrating social cohesion and community spirit in Germany on May 23rd! What are we planning? We invite you to join…
In 2019, we collected plastic and metal scrap for the first time and ended up disposing of 50 bags filled to the brim. The campaign was exhausting, but incredibly motivating. In 2023, Malawi’s president took up this idea and launched a national Clean-Up Day, which has since taken place every third Friday of the month….
In Chiuno Village, where there is no running water or electricity, dealing with legal forms is also a new challenge. The community-based organization corresponds to a non-profit association in Germany at the municipal level. Here, as there, the members and their boards are subject to a set of rules based on legal requirements. The social…