Category: Southern Africa
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I started experiencing seizures when i was 8 years old!
By Aubrey Chiumia, Epilepsy Warrior, Malawi. Started experiencing seizures at age 8. His family thought he was bewitched due to lack of information about epilepsy. Now runs a successful shop and advocates for the rights of people with epilepsy.
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Stripes Week/Africa Epilepsy Week
By Samuel Chigamba, Epilepsy Warriors Foundation, Malawi. Epilepsy Alliance Africa launches Africa Epilepsy Week with the theme ‘Together we will Defeat Epilepsy.’ Stories collected from epilepsy warriors across the continent.
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Interview with Pamela, a single mother of a child with disability from Lilongwe, Malawi, Africa.
By Msenga Mulungu, Program Manager, Sandi Thandiza, Malawi. An interview with Pamela Chipeka, a 29-year-old single mother in Lilongwe raising 4-year-old Irenaeus who has cerebral palsy and epilepsy — the challenges of finding housing, employment, and support.
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Parents travel over 200 Km to access services for their Children with Mobility Challenges.
By Msenga Mulungu, Program Manager, Sandi Thandiza, Malawi. Parents from Karonga district describe travelling over 200 kilometres with their children with mobility challenges to reach the nearest service provider.
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PODCAM counsels a family for locking up a member with disabilities for 30 years.
By Msenga Mulungu, Program Manager, Sandi Thandiza, Malawi. PODCAM visits the family of Estery Chakhumbira — a 30-year-old woman with severe cerebral palsy who has been locked inside her home since childhood.
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Families of Children with Disabilities are severely hit economically due to Covid: steps taken in Malawi to train parents on making masks.
By Msenga Mulungu, Program Manager, Sandi Thandiza, Malawi. Families of children with disabilities are severely hit economically during Covid-19. Ronnacy Nyirongo of PODCAM describes how she trains parents to make reusable masks locally.
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Poverty deprives children with physical disabilities from accessing aid.
Children with physical disabilities in rural Malawi are deprived of essential aid because their families cannot afford transport to service providers. Poverty creates a cycle where disability and lack of access reinforce each other.
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Disability Issues in Malawi
The Commission of Inquiry set up by the former president of Malawi has failed to find the source of the market for body parts from persons with Albinism — a critical disability rights and safety issue in the country.
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