Improving nutrition and crop yields in Malawi through improved agriculture techniques and crop diversification. Photo: PWS&D.
Teaching mothers about health and how to prevent the transmission of HIV to newborns. Photo: PWS&D.
Providing clean water in Malawi through wells and boreholes. Photo: PWS&D.
Our Partnerships
PWS&D is working with the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian’s Blantyre and Livingstonia Synods to administer programs that fight poverty, hunger, lack of clean water, malaria, and the effects of rampant HIV and AIDS, as well as local natural disasters.
Through Ekwendeni Hospital in northern Malawi, families receive agricultural training, seeds and livestock to diversify their crops, improve their nutrition through growing legumes and increase their incomes. Farmers then share their seeds, knowledge and experience with others in the community. Community members are also provided with mosquito nets and malaria prevention seminars to protect themselves from malaria.
With the help of PWS&D, the hospital provides home-based care, counselling, testing, and education for people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS, and helps prevent transmission of the disease from expectant mothers to their children. HIV orphans and vulnerable children find care, shelter, food, education and emotional support at Ekwendeni’s orphan care centres.
Programs in Blantyre Synod also provide agricultural training, care for orphans through Mulanje Mission Hospital, and safety for vulnerable girls at a boarding school. Throughout Malawi, shallow wells and boreholes are installed in communities to reduce the incidence of water-borne diseases.
