- Farmers join hands to solve the problems of hunger in Dowa
The members of Dzoole Bean Association in Dowa district have good reason to be smiling proudly as they display their bags of bean seed. After only one year these farmers have managed to work together to produce enough bean seed to fill over 46 bags, weighing 50 Kilograms each, 42 of which have just been sold to Bunda college. (22 May 2008)
- The life of a Malawian woman
Concern's Stella Kachoka works with many of her fellow Malawian women, helping improve their lives and that of their families. Here she writes about Esther Phiri, a woman she has come to know through this work. (10 Mar 2008)
- Eating Christmas turkey under the African sun
A recent article in Woman's Way magazine featured Concern's very own Louise Finan and Brid Barret, both of whom will be spending the festive season in Africa. Louise is working in Malawi, Brid in The Democratic Republic of the Congo. The article was written by Deanna O'Connor and Aisling O'Toole. (20 Dec 2007)
- Video: watch Concern's innovative cash transfer (DECT) programme in action
Concern is currently running an innovative project as a response to food shortages in Malawi. Hilary Benn, the former UK's Secretary of State for International Development (DFID), visited Malawi last month to see a DFID funded project in action. The Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer programme provides cash as an alternative to food aid. (02 Mar 2007)
- How six-mile trek for grain became a stroll to the cashpoint
Each month for more than a year Nasita Jaziel trudged six miles through the Malawi bush to collect two 20kg sacks of free maize which she carried home, balanced on her head, to feed her children. (16 Feb 2007)
- Hilary Benn, Secretary of State for International Development, visits Concern's Emergency Cash
On Monday 5th February Hilary Benn, the UK's Secretary of State for International Development, visited Concern's innovative Dowa Emergency Cash Transfer (DECT) programme in Sungeni, in Malawi's Dowa district. The programme is being funded by DFID and is providing small holder farmers with cash to buy food (or other essentials) for their families. (12 Feb 2007)
- Poverty, Aids and Hunger - breaking the poverty trap in Malawi
Poverty, Aids & Hunger - breaking the poverty trap in Malawi (01 Dec 2006)
- Fighting Malnutrition in Malawi
In October, we held a special briefing event in Glasgow on our Community Therapeutic Care (CTC) programme, a pioneering approach to dealing with malnutrition in the developing world.
(01 Nov 2006)
- Competing against malnutrition
Malnutrition is one of the common health problems in many countries, mainly those that experience food shortages year in year out, Malawi included. (27 Oct 2006)
- Malawi's Food Crisis Worsens
Malawi's Food Crisis Worsens (27 Oct 2005)
