Become a champion of grassroots empowerment in Malawi and Sri Lanka
Our “champions” are regular contributors to our mission and we’re deeply grateful for their support. Being a consciously small non-profit…
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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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Cooperatives for Development, Permaculture for Resilience
It feels like it is just a few days ago when our skies were filled with fireworks and happy songs greeted our ears everywhere we were.
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Development in Action
After a couple of days in Kapita, I am beginning to come to terms with AFT (African Flexible Time). A concept coined by my friend Chawezi to help me understand the flexible nature of Malawian scheduling. The term initially surfaced when we were expecting to do our interviews with Kapita’s largest village.
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Arriving in Malawi
Coming to Malawi, I was not sure what to expect. Having travelled through a few African countries before landing in Malawi, I was expecting Lilongwe to be a fast-paced, high-intensity and stressful city.
Read MoreDocumentaries that have moved and inspired us!
We thought we’d take a break from our usual programming and get our team to share some of their sources of inspiration. We’d like to share some documentaries that have had a powerful impact on how we see the world.
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Empowering women through Entrepreneurship: Lessons from India
There is a saying in Malawi that goes ‘kumayenda kumaona agalu amichombo’ which literally means people must explore new places to appreciate and learn new things.
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Development as Freedom
Here is our Founder Shanil Samarakoon’s TEDx talk on “Development as Freedom”. Drawing upon
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The 3 Greatest Lessons I’ve Learnt Through 5 Years of Working in Development
I joined the Empower Malawi team in 2010 as a fresh young graduate with no experience about development work. A scientist at heart, equipped with theories, hope and confidence amassed from the long lecture hours, I was eager to get down to work. I cared less where and how.
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Staff Profile – Bright Msuku
Our PR Officer Kane Callaghan will be in conversation with one of our staff members each month. This month Kane had a chat with the Asst. Project Coordinator of Empower Malawi, Bright Msuku.
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