Category Environment

LILONGWE WOMEN TRAINED IN GREEN SKILLS

A Lilongwe-based organisation, Green Girls Platform, has groomed 5000 women in Lilongwe with skills on making environmentally friendly products using locally available resources. The women, mostly from Bunda on the outskirts of Lilongwe City, have been imparted with skills on…

YOUTH GROUP LAUNCHES RECYCLING CAMPAIGN

Amid serious environmental risk being posed by unsustainable dumping of waste in the country’s towns and major trading centers, a grouping calling itself “Waste Management Campaign” has started a recycling campaign aimed at reducing the threat of wastes. Among others,…

SVTM TO OPEN MEGA FARM IN NSANJE

The Shire Valley Transformation Movement ( SVTM) says it has conducted discussions with Traditional Authority Ndamera in Nsanje aiming at opening mega farm a development which is going to see the communities growing crops twice or thrice in a year.…

INNOVATOR LAUNCHES CIVIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

Blantyre-based entrepreneur and innovator Emmanuel Chikwapula has launched an ambitious campaign aimed at educating the masses the benefits of recycling plastics. Through the campaign, Chikwapula is collecting and buying plastics from people and recycling it into reusable products. He has…

NGO FIGHTS DEFORESTATION IN NKHATABAY

In a bid to help conserve the environment, Nkhata Bay-based organisation, Go Green Save the Environment (GGSE), has embarked on an innovative project dubbed “Climate Action” which seeks to boost the use of alternative sources of energy. Among others, the…