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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Every one of us has the potential for remarkable achievements and every one of us can accomplish the impossible in our lives if given the right inspiration and motivation to do so. This is how I may summarize the good will that Join My Village (JMV) is doing. Most of our rural girls we support both in Primary and Secondary schools in Kasungu have never been to town and if you ask them what they want to be when they grew up, many of them will...
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An effective project is one which its goals are well set and explained and where all parties participate with a purpose. The construction of female teacher’s house by Join My Village in Kasungu has faced little or no resistance from the participating communities because it was well planned during the project’s inception that we all have a role. It is not surprising though that members of the communities know their roles in every mini-project of Join My Village and house construction being one. The women know...
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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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When Join My Village landed in Kasungu district way back in 2009, the first thing we did was to enter into an agreement with the Kasungu District Education Manager’s (KUDEM) office as one way of pulling each other towards a common goal; improving girls access to education in the rural areas of the district. Among the areas of agreement were: Join My Village to construct houses for female teachers; provide some reference materials for primary schools; and provide scholarships to needy and intelligent girls who...
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