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When one woman thrives, the whole community thrives

On our recent monitoring visit, we went above and beyond. The team walked on foot for about 2 hours, through steep terrains to visit Mirriam Chirwa, an inspiring beneficiary and we could not resist but share her story. Mirriam like many others in Malawi was born into a family living...

CYD Partners MUTAG to demystify Girl child challenges

The Centre for Youth and Development has collaborated with the Mzuzu University Theatre Arts Group to produce an adapted theatrical production called “The Chief’s Blanket” written by Smith Likongwe and directed by Misheck Mzumara, Misheck Banda and William Maulidi. The play will be premiered in Mzuzu at the Mzuzu University...

Improving Access to ICT Program in Malawi

In a series of #Knowwhatwedo, we share with you what the Centre for Youth and Development does, why we do what we do, how we do it and what we have been able to achieve. In this blog we share with you the Improving Access to ICT program we are implementing...

Guest blog: Wongani Phiri’s Experience Interning with CYD

I have an amazing opportunity to work as a full-time, Intern for the Centre for Youth and Development. This opportunity has been life-changing and I have gained a lot of experience working with this organization in fulfillment of requirements for the award of a Degree in Information and Communication Technology...

Our work expands to support Universities

Over the last 4 years, our Improving Access to ICT Program that we implement in partnership with the Turing Trust, has been supporting secondary schools in Malawi with ICT resources. However, recently we discovered that universities in Malawi also needed computers. Although universities did have some computers, there were never enough...