Malawi
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Concern has been providing aid in Malawi since 2002. The country has a population of 14 million people and is roughly the same size as Ireland. It is one of the poorest countries in the world and 22% of people there are ranked as extremely poor.
Our charity work in Malawi focuses primarily on improving livelihoods, healthcare and education.
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Combatting childhood nutrition
Our main health programme in Malawi addresses the problem of acute malnutrition in children. In 2008, we pioneered a new approach to dealing with childhood malnutrition in association with Valid International. This initiative is called community management of acute malnutrition and we run it in conjunction with Malawi’s Ministry of Health.
Our goal is to strengthen the overall capacity of communities and the health sector. This will help us reach more malnourished children and improve the quality of care. This programme will improve the coordination of services between health facilities, health surveillance assistants and village health committees. We intend to make maternal, newborn and child health services more readily available by providing training for community health workers.
Helping the poorest people
Our photo gallery below shows the broad scope of the work we do on our livelihoods programme in Malawi.
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Maternal health
Concern is one of the charities to receive a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. In 2009, we received a five-year, $41million grant to improve maternal, newborn and child health in Africa and south Asia. The Innovations project for maternal, newborn and child health is field testing two ideas, which use technology to improve coverage and quality of healthcare for mothers and children. This project will focus on engaging the private sector and strengthening the connection with Concern’s other programmes in Malawi.
Improving access to education
Our education programme is implemented in Nsanje District and focuses on increasing access to quality primary education, particularly for girls. One of the major obstacles for girls staying in school is gender-based violence, which is why our programme focuses on ways of tackling this problem. We intend to do this by:
- Explaining child rights and gender issues at meetings with school staff, parents and the community
- Identifying and promoting mechanisms of support for survivors and reporting perpetrators of gender-based violence
- Conducting awareness meetings on teachers’ code of conduct
HIV and AIDS
An important part of our work in Malawi is addressing the stigma and discrimination associated with HIV and AIDS. We work to ensure that all individuals are treated with dignity and respect despite their HIV status.
Improving farming techniques
In 2010, we began a three-year conservation agriculture programme in Malawi with the help of a $1.5million grant from Accenture. Conservation agriculture is all about encouraging and teaching farmers to take a radically different approach to crop production. As part of this project, we aim to reach 2,000 poor and vulnerable farmers in Dowa, Lilongwe and Nkhotakota in 2011. Find out more.
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