By Chisomo Phiri
Save the Children has hailed partnerships that are there between government and communities in various projects saying they are impacting positively on development.
Regional Director for Save the Children (East and southern Africa), Ian Vale, said this in Zomba on Wednesday when touring ‘Titukulane projects’ being implemented by the organisation.
“The important thing that we have learnt in these visits is less about what Save the Children does but how we work with different stakeholders including the government to ensure that the activities can go on for much longer than we are able to intervene, in this way helping children and families prosper, “she said.
One of the beneficiaries, Luwiza Singano Kanyambujo from Mazeze Village, Traditional Authority Chikowi in Zomba, says she can now manage to pay school fees for her Form Three daughter who is studying at Karonga St. Mary’s.
Apart from the irrigation farming that she is into, Luwiza, through the support from Save the Children, started a business which earns her about K300,000 in a month.
Titukulane is a project seeking to improve the livelihood of communities, with components of agriculture production, health, nutrition and resilience with other cross-cutting themes including gender, youth empowerment and environment protection.
