March 20, 2024
Tailoring School welcomes three new Trainees
WfZ is very proud to welcome Doreen, Joyce and Beatrice to its 6 months graduation programme in Tailoring taught by Mercy & Agnes.
November 24, 2022
No more blackouts – a solar roof for our seed bank
We received support from Terraformation to set up a solar roof with a small off-grid battery solution to power devices in our seed bank to dehumidify, dry or treat seeds – and not a moment too soon
March 17, 2022
Drones, Panoramas, Mapping
We are really excited that our partner One Tree Planted has sponsored us a DJI Mavic Mini2 drone to document the work on the ground.
August 29, 2020
The Farm
29th August 2020: Way back in 2007 we bought a piece of land in Lusangazi about 11 km from our base in Mzuzu, Malawi. It was fully organic from the beginning. We have never used chemical fertilisers and never use noxious chemicals as pesticides. A year later we
June 14, 2019
Girl Child Student Spreadsheet
For the last few weeks, I have been busy working on the girl child student excel spreadsheet, updating and proofreading information on each of the girls Wells for Zoë provides secondary school fees for.
May 6, 2019
Caregiver Preschool Training at Kachere CBO
Attending the preschool training workshop for caregivers at Kachere CBO has been one of the highlights of my stay in Malawi (so far!). It was so inspiring to see how much encouragement and confidence the preschools team give the caregivers – I learned that caregivers
November 21, 2018
My need to know what Everyone does!
A good thing about being here is that everyday there is something new. When I came here I wasn't sure about how I could help. I imagined helping in the farm or with the preschools everyday. Once here from the first day we started meeting
October 30, 2018
Kamiraphete preschool
1st November 2018: This is Kamiraphete preschool, which has about 20 students and three carers. Magret, on the left, has come with her two assistants (interns who have completed their MSCE as part of the WfZ Girl Child Student project) to do a little training with the
October 18, 2018
Christopher on the lathe
18th October 2018: This is Christopher adjusting one of our three lathes for making valves for our pumps. The plastic comes in two meter solid bars from Promat the manufacturer (in Malawi) and the team make all the parts to give us the complete pumps, of course
October 17, 2018
Office Work
17th October 2018: From left are Angelina and Margaret who work in the gardens on Horticulture, and on the right is Magret, who manages our preschool projects, being taught by Prominence who manages Forestry and planting 1 million trees (#1millionTrees) Our way is that every employee should
October 13, 2018
Enterprise
13th October 2018: Every now and then the opportunity arises to join up a few more dots as we call it. No strategic plans, just simple innovations. This opportunity arises as we welcome back Boyd who lived with his mother Joyce, an employee on the farm, and
August 12, 2018
Police Victim Support Unit
12 August 2018: In recent times, Florence, head of our Girl Child Project has worked with the victim support unit on one case of adduction of two girls and in another where a girl had a forced early marriage. Both cased were successfully dealt with and the
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