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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Vandana at 12 is not very different from other girls of her age.  She has dreams in her eyes and she wears a shy smile on her face. What make her stand out is the ‘never give up’ spirit amongst adversities and challenges.  Vandana was once enrolled in school but she does not remember when. However, her education was punctuated by a long break as economic hardship forced her father to migrate to Delhi, and later to Mumbai for work. Meanwhile her mother shouldered the responsibility...
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Many teachers teach through commitment and experience. But behind these committed and experienced teachers, there are reference materials which require the commitment from students themselves to participate and become engrossed into learning. Zumani primary school is 53 kilometres west of Kasungu town and it is just within the edge of Kasungu National Park.  The school has an attendance of 636 students of which 302 are girls. Previously, the school had no grade 8 classes where students could sit for secondary school entrance examination and the reason...
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Imagine, you are a teacher in rural Kasungu and you are among just 6 teachers teaching at a school like Mtoso which has a total of 1056 students. Honestly, the teacher to student ratio at Mtoso primary school is compromised. The government, according to the Kasungu district education office, recommends the 1: 60 as a good teacher to student ratio. Mtoso is a full primary school with grades 1 to 8 but one may wonder how do 6 teachers manage such a large number of students?...
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What a great year we had here at Join My Village!  Thanks to your support and engagement, we were able to unlock $900,000 for CARE programs in Malawi four weeks early.  What a great testament to the power of online actions to help us enact change!We made great strides in 2011.  We welcomed Merck as a new partner which helped us release even more funds.  We saw the number of secondary school scholarships nearly double – increasing from 161 in Year 1 to 241 in...
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