Mzumazi FP School Expect No Dropouts Due To DAPP School Feeding Programme

Mzumazi FP school in Lilongwe rural 

Malawi, is a country where shortage of food and hunger is a perennial problem, school meals would make a big difference both on reducing malnutrition, promoting development and make children stay in school.

DAPP Hygiene Programme Eradicates Diarrhea At Mlumbwira Primary School

“We used to register 15 diarrhea cases in a month but now we rarely hear that a learner has contracted the sanitation related disease.” Recollects Ms. Odeta Beleko a standard 3 teacher at Mlumbwira full primary school in the area of Traditional Authority Chitukula in Lilongwe

Soya Milk Making Supports Nutrition of Kalumo Village Families

Agnes making milk from
soya beans 

Before 2015, the family of Agnes Kaliati from Kalumo village of Traditional Authority  Kalumo in Ntchisi could not afford milk. It was too expensive and the family could only manage to drink milk once or twice in a year.

Soya Milk Improving Leaner’s Turnout At Masangano Junior Primary School

Masangano junior class pupils receiving Soy Milk from
one of the mother group leaders

Masangano Junior Primary School in Malumo village, T/A Malumo in Ntchisi district had been experiencing number of school dropouts and this worried the head teacher for the school Mr. Andrew Kalikuni.

According to Mr. Kalikuni, at the beginning of 2015-2016 academic calendar, the school registered 106 pupils for class of Standard 1, but on average he said only 50 to 60 students were coming to school and attending classes.

DAPP In Service Training Programme Promoting Innovation

Teachers now use TALULAR
(Teaching And Learning Using Locally Available
Resources)

Mrs. Carolyn Kafodya Linje a teacher for standard 2 at Mzumazi Primary School in Lilongwe rural has been teaching for 19 years now. Like many other primary school teachers, her every day teaching routine had been reading in front of the pupils and writing on the board and nothing more.

Visual Learning Excites, Makes Learners Understand Things Very Fast

Lilongwe Primary School Demonstration Teacher
using real visual materials in class 

Children learn fast in an environment where they are able to visualize information. They understand better and return information when ideas and words are associated with images.