2024 – Taking stock and exploring new directions in Malawi
My name is Shanil Samarakoon and I’m the Executive Director of Empower Projects. I’ve just returned from an action-packed trip…
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Our Impact in 2021
The second year of the pandemic was no less challenging when it came to our work in the field. Having…
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Empower Malawi: The Next Five Years
Over the last few months our team across Malawi and Australia have been reflecting on our work to date. We’ve been dissecting the key factors underpinning our many successes and perhaps more so, our failures and the rich learnings
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2017: Highlights
Greetings everyone! I hope you are having a relaxing end to the year. At our end, another momentous year comes to an end and a HUGE 2018 is soon to fill our horizon. Here’s a quick summary of some highlights from 2017.
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Empower Malawi: The Next Five Years
Over the last few months our team across Malawi and Australia have been reflecting on our work to date. We’ve been dissecting the key factors underpinning our many successes and perhaps more so, our failures and the rich learnings attached to them.
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Why we believe Zuwa can be a game changer
What this means is that by Empower Projects serving as the parent organisation, Zuwa Energy will be a profit for purpose company,
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A Massive 2016!
As our Executive Director in Malawi says, “Change is a seed of slow growth” and in this light 2015 has been an important year for Empower Projects. It is a year in which we received
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We are Tax Deductible in Australia!
This is a tremendous achievement as we are a small organisation – we are currently volunteer run in Australia and only had 3 full-time employees in Malawi at the time of application in 2014. Overall, we clocked in over 200 hours of effort to submit a robust application.
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