By Jack Banda-Renewable Energy Officer (NABW) National Association of Business Women project officers were in Mangochi on 12 March 2020 conducting an awareness training on renewable energy technologies and productive use of renewable electricity. The training targeted 40 youths from 3 entrepreneurial clubs from Mangochi town outskirts under Mangochi district youth office. With support from […]

Fyson Nanyewe, 31, sells torches and solar lamps at Bvumbwe Trading Centre in Thyolo and Chitakale in Mulanje. When the country was experiencing 36-hour blackouts two years ago, he saw an opportunity to make more money. “Business is in my blood,” he says. “Every week, my father used to travel to Nsanje to order dry […]

It is 7.15am on a sunny Wednesday in Blantyre and Jumbe Township is brimming with logs falling from massive heaps of firewood. The pieces of wood sliding into Limbe-Machinjiri Road block traffic during rush hour. However, the traffic jam is made worse by two trucks offloading firewood at the commercial city’s fastestgrowing firewood market. This […]