“Please Henry don’t talk to me in vernacular, I don’t want to be punished once my colleagues and teachers hear me talking our vernacular while in the campus,” this was Rhoda Chaima’s first words when I recently visited her at Santhe secondary school. She was referring to a policy by the school which requires every student to speak English as one way of improving their fluency.Perhaps Rhoda was right, but the policy has remained a joke among the students and teachers themselves. No one has...
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How I wish this was written in “Chichewa” a mother tongue for our people in Kasungu so that I could exactly write what our people have been saying. Never mind whether it was going to be 4 paged blog or more!Just for a moment let me be your teacher for only today; Zikomo means THANK YOU! – End of lesson!It is now more than three years since we started talking about Join My Village in Kasungu. I know we all say thank you every day....
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What’s your take on how Join My Village has been complementing the works of government in trying to improve the education for girls? Do you see any progress and what’s your role as a division in the performance improvement of our girls in Kasungu district and Malawi as a country? I had to ask these questions as I caught up with officials from the Central East Education Division (CEED) who were recently in the field doing monitoring in Secondary schools in Kasungu district where Join...
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First – reference materials help her learn.  Then, she gets a scholarship.  Now, she is a student at Kafukule secondary school. Harriet Chenembu is her name.  Born in a family of six children, with only one being a boy, Harriet is very proud to be on JMV scholarship and sees her journey into becoming a nurse so promising. This best friend of Gloria Masina hails from Tundula village and did her primary school at Lingadzi before being selected to Kafukule secondary school. She is shy...
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When I grow up I want to be a lawyer, a doctor, a pilot, a teacher and the list goes on and on. This is what most of us have come across during our childhood but very few have lived their dreams. The reasons for not realizing our own dreams are best known to us, but for some it might either be the lack of influence from their mentors, the ambition to try new things or the environment that surrounded them. Whatever the reason, we...
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