Health

Aged 27 years old, Gladys is a mother of a 3 months old boy and 4 other children and lives in Likhopola village in traditional authority Nchinguza in Machinga district. She is a beneficiary of the DAPP Screening, Care and Nutrition for the Management of Severe and Moderate Malnutrition in Children…

Held under the theme “Its Time for a World Without TB – Know Your Status” in Malawi, the World TB Day is commemorated on 24 March annually. Activities to mark this day took place on the 26th of March 2019 at Katoto Secondary School ground in Traditional Authority Nthwalo in Mzuzu City, Mzimba…

(Adapted from www.bbc.com) By Vauldi Carelse BBC Africa, Namibia - 1 December 2018 Harvey Davis comes to open the gate to his dusty, windswept compound in the remote part of northern Namibia. "Welcome, welcome, it's been so long since we've had visitors," he exclaims at the two health workers.The…

July 2017 to June 2018, Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi in partnership with National AIDS Commission (NAC) implemented Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) project targeting private secondary schools and tertiary education institutions in Mulanje and Thyolo districts. Known…

DAPP HOPE IN SCHOOLS PROJECT ORIENTS YOUTH ON SRHR Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi in partnership with the National AIDS Commission (NAC) is implementing a Hope in Schools project called Creating Space for Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYW) to Access Sexual and Reproductive…

“We used to register 15 diarrhoea cases in a month but now we rarely hear that a learner has contracted the sanitation related disease,” recollects Odeta Beleko, a standard 3 teacher at Mlumbwira full primary school in the area of Traditional Authority Chitukula in Lilongwe. DAPP Malawi through Let…

Today, April 7, Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi joins the international world in commemorating the World Health Day. The day is an initiative spearheaded by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Each year, the day is given a theme to highlighta subject of major importance to…

The Development Aid from People to People (DAPP) Malawi participated in the World Tuberculosis (TB) Day commemoration which was organized by the Ministry of Health. The event took place on 24th March 2018 at Matenje Secondary School Ground, Traditional Authority Khombeza in Salima district. Every…

Challenge TB is a 5-year USAID-funded global project whose main objective is to decrease TB mortality and morbidity in high burdened countries. KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation is implementing the project in Malawi, with focused activities in 15 districts. DAPP Malawi has partnered with KNCV to support…

Mafosha primary school is found in Chinkhwiri Zone Traditional Authority Chakhadza in Dowa district. This is one of the rural Malawi primary schools where DAPP graduated teachers are posted to work by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology after graduating as qualified teachers. Stanley…

Humana People to People, a network of development organizations working in the areas of international solidarity, cooperation and development participated in the European Development Days (EDD) that took place in Brussels from 7th to 8th April 2017.The event brings together the development…

DAPP Malawi has since February 2015 been implementing the Integrated HIV/TB Project in Thyolo district which is funded by Comic Relief through TB Alert. The project aligns with the World Health Organisation’s ENGAGE-TB approach to integrate community-based TB and HIV/TB prevention, care and control…

People in Blantyre and Chiradzulu fights malnutrition DAPP Malawi is working to reduce child stunting, maternal and child anemia through mobilizing the communities on the importance of mothers eating well and providing nutritious food to their infants. There are many actions in the local…