Apprentices Leave for Mchinji
The United Methodist Apprentices, Jospeph Kaipa and Edward Nkhata, finished their 3-month stay at the Centre last Friday. This was the first phase of their 5-month training and they are now spending the next 2 months in Mchinji. The Centre held a going away lunch for...
Staff Capacity Building Kicks Off
Today Eston and Biswick led the first in a series of six full day permaculture trainings for our staff members and their families. The trainings are the first stage of a new project Kusamala is launching in partnership with the Red Soil Project, and NGO based out of...
The Centre Welcomes Visitors from Chitedze
In the Chitedze community Never Ending Food has been working for over 10 years to promote permaculture at the household level. Researcher Abby Conrad, who has been living and working at the Centre for the past 9 months, has found that their work has had a strong...
Kusamala Visits Home of Hope Orphanage
Eston and Molly traveled to the Home of Hope Orphanage near Mchinji to meet the founder and director of the orphanage, Reverend Thomson John Chipeta, this past Thursday. The meeting is the first of many to prepare for a six-month apprenticeship offered to two young...
Kusamala Attends Feed the Future Launch
Yesterday a group of Kusamala staff and interns went to USAID’s Feed the Future kick off party. The main attraction for most of us was the anticipation of seeing President Joyce Banda, one of only two African heads of state. As close neighbors of the statehouse, we...
The Kusamala Team Visits Dowa District JANEEMO Site
Molly, Eston, Gladson and Marie headed to Dowa district last week to visit one of our JANEEMO sites. Along the way we picked Brad Kindler, a Peace Corps Volunteer that will be helping Gladson organize the villages that will be participating in the project. As we drove...
