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In southern Malawi, and precisely in Balaka, Father Mario Pacifici, Monfort missionary, arrived here thirty five years ago and founded with Cesare Castelli the "Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust" which now has nearly 700 workers. The Cooperative operates within four areas of development:- People find jobs in the 33 activities of Andiamo, including health care, education, vocational training, construction, agriculture, mechanics, sports, and last but not the musical one. Precisely in this context born the Alleluya Band, a band created in 1978 as a church choir and now became the point of musical reference throughout Malawi. Our representative in Italy is Orizzonte Malawi onlus, that use the valuable collaboration of many associations:
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Goster to attend Field Production course in Lilongwe
Henry Goster, Get Up Stand Up Project Coordinator, leaves Monday, 15 October for Lilongwe to attend a “Field Production” course at the Natural Resources College for two weeks. “I expect to learn more about field production techniques and farming group … Continue reading
We are all Africans
Africa’s Great Eastern Rift Valley Running through Tanzania and Kenya, this is where the human story really begins, the earliest signs of Homo sapiens and our predecessor hominids, and it’s therefore where we should go back to when thinking about … Continue reading
Posted in News from Malawi
Tagged Africans, Andiamo, Homo Sapiens, Kenya, Malawi, migration, Mountain of God, Rift Valley, Tanzania
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AEI in another construction project
Construction work continues in Andiamo Education Institutions (AEI) campus. This time, it is a small room, attached to the boys’ hostel that will be used by students with special needs. What is so special with this building is that unlike … Continue reading
Poverelle Sisters Hospital without electricity
Mikoke Hospital, which is run by Poverelle sisters in Ntcheu, is running without electricity since Friday after some people siphoned oil from the transformer in the process leaving one of them dead after he was electrocuted. According to Zodiak Online … Continue reading
Posted in Health Care, News from Malawi
Tagged ESCOM, Griffin Mpumulo, Mikoke Hospital, Poverelle Sisters, Zodiak
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Basket trainer leaves while Basket program continues
Alessandro Capelli, a Volunteering Basketball Trainer of Balaka Malawi Basketball Association (BAMABA) left today 29 September 2012 for Italy after a 2-week training program in Andiamo. “I was happy to have the opportunity of living this experience in Malawi and … Continue reading
Saidisan Farmers group leads Get Up Stand Up Project
It is not yet time for rains, though the temperatures are growing high in Balaka but the fields of SAIDISAN are just ready for the sowing. Henry Goster, Responsible of Get Up Stand Up Project visited three of the SAIDISAN … Continue reading
AEI campus to swell to 317
The Andiamo Education Institutions (AEI) will now have about 320 students. This follows the selection of 21 and 15 students by Technical, Entrepreneurial, Vocational, Education and Training Authority (TEVETA) to study Automobile Mechanics and Tailoring Designing respectively at Andiamo Technical … Continue reading
AYCT in pictures – 27 September 2012
Today, 27 September 2012 we went around in different sections of Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust (AYCT) to see what people are doing. The following is what we found:
Bamaba rejuvenates basketball in Balaka
A demonstrative Basketball tournament was held yesterday, Sunday 23 September at Andiamo basketball court after a one-week training with the volunteer Alessandro Cappelli of BAMABA Association from Italy. Three of the teams that were trained by Alessandro, Andiamo Secondary, Andiamo … Continue reading
AYCT commemorates the Literacy Day
8 September is the International Literacy Day and in Malawi the 2012 main commemoration event for the day will take place on 4 October 2012 in Nkhatabay district at Kachere Primary School ground under the theme “Literacy and Peace”, the … Continue reading