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Blog posts about Malawi

Prisoners harvest cow peas in Zimbabwe

The food revolution that could transform life behind bars

Poor nutritrition makes people in prison more vulnerable to infection, increasing the risks to communities around them. Grow-your-own initiatives could be a simple, innovative way to improve health behind and beyond bars.

Education volunteer Fred van den Brug supporting children with Unlocking Talent resources

Using technology to improve education in Malawi

Education volunteer, Fred van den Brug, is one of our volunteers supporting innovative steps tackling some of Malawi's biggest education problems.

Andrew Ashe with children using tablets to support education in Malawi

Volunteer to educational tech pioneer: Andrew Ashe, CEO, onebillion

When Andrew Ashe volunteered as a teacher in Papua New Guinea in the 1980s, he can hardly have imagined that more than 30 years later, he’d be helping launch an innovative education project with VSO.

Standard two teacher, Manesui Kantukule, assists pupil Gloria Mphalo

Teachers team with tablet tech to accelerate learning in Malawi

An education project using tablet computers, aims to reduce the strain and has already seen children complete a year’s worth of learning in just eight weeks during a pilot last year.

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