Recently Join My Village asked girls in Malawi and India to create art work that could be used to make cards for Mother’s around the world. It was fun, it was imaginative and above all it was a true reflection of how creative our girls can be. The colorful images of mothers, villages and flowers were created by our girls as part of showing how passionate they are towards different things. In Malawi, it was a free for all and when the day came, the girls...
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Dressed in their respective school uniforms, some of our scholarship girls took their seats in a 30 seat-coaster bus destined for Lilongwe, the Capital city of Malawi. On arrival at Bunda College, our first destination, it was not strange seeing most of our girls admiring everything on the campus as most of them have never been to such places!  They had more questions than answers. Looking strange and out of place, the girls started organizing themselves for they knew they are here not only to admire...
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Education enhances life. It can end generational circles of poverty and diseases and provide a foundation for sustainable development. Many girls in Kasungu are denied the chance to get an education which condemns them to a life of missed opportunities.Some parents force the girls into early marriages just to run away from their parental responsibility. They think when she is married whether to an old man or a polygamist then all the responsibility is transferred to the husband.Employment in labor field of Tobacco production is...
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Education is a fundamental human right that every child is entitled to. It can help address some of the societies deeply rooted inequalities which condemn many girls to a life of missed opportunities. Kasungu is such an example where girls are given a second priority to boys. Many parents would prefer sending their boy child to school and encourage a girl to get married. Many think a boy is always a bread winner and girls are always on the receiving end and thus making a...
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New Year, new beginnings! It is no longer a holiday to some of our girls we supported in secondary school through scholarships but rather a new beginning to a new life. They sat for their Form 4 examinations and are now at home helping parents with household work as they plan the next chapter in their lives.Last Wednesday afternoon as showers of rain drops were all over Kasungu, I started off for Makanda village to have a chat with some of the girls JMV supported...
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