After three days spent in Chilangoma, doing courses, tasks, writing experiences and a common action to slash the area around the NHQ of DAPP Malawi, on Tuesday we finally moved forward doing our bus trip. Next step was Zomba, in the Shire Highlands. It is the administrative capital of Zomba Distric and it was the capital…
Dziwe La Nkhalamba
By Gp In the afternoon of Thursday 3rd of March, after the action in Mulanje Mission Hospital, we went to Dziwe La Nkhalamba. This is a place inside Mulanje mountain, well known in Malawi, because of its beauty and because it’s a place of ancient myth and legends. In the past, people were used to offer sacrifices to…
Action in Mulanje Mission Hospital
By Gp As part of our education, everytime we are hosted, we “pay back” the hospitality with an action to increase the living standards and the beauty of that place. Our teacher must be able to teach but also they don’t have to be afraid of doing the morning cleaning tasks and they must give…
Visiting Mulanje District
By Gp. We spent three days in Mulanje district in this first week of investigation. On Tuesday evening we went to “Mulhako wa Alhomwe” in Chonde. Here we spent the first night and the morning after we had a course to learn more about the culture of Lhomwe tribe. “Mulhako wa Alhomwe” is a center…
Investigation in Chintebe
By Gp These three days in Chintebe were an amazing experience. Even if during the first month & half in Malawi, while walking from our TTC Amalika to Bvumbwe or visiting some primary schools we had the possibility to see villages and people, in these days we had the chance to live together with them. We…
Out for an investigation
By Gp One of the must of our schools, is the idea that theory and practice has to come together to get a better understanding of the matter you are studying. We have several pedagogical principles that explain us this idea: “You have to go exploring to acquire new ideas. And to explore further to form better…
Visit of Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
By Gp The 24th of September, two members of the Finnish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, visited our TTC Amalika to check how some projects they sponsored in the past, were going. This time it was the occasion for team 2014 and the new 2015 students teachers to show their work. They prepared, together with the core-group…
The first week with our students
By Gp Last Wednesday, our students arrived to Amalika TTC. During these few days we started to know each other, to let them get used to the school, the surrounding and some aspects of the DNS program. We spent time reading and commenting together the first pages of the book “DNS Malawi”, to understand why for lot of…
Visit of the Minister of Education and the representatives of Agriculture and Nutrition
By Rebekka Today, our school DAPP Amalika had the honor to receive the Minister of Education of Malawi, accompanied by some représentatives of the Agriculture and Nutrition field. All the present core group teachers, including Gp and I, were involved in making présentations. Some students already involved in Teaching Practice (third year of DNS)…
A day wisiting rural primary schools
By Gp Yesterday we went wisiting the primary schools in the surronding of Amalika. Here, the DNS Team 2013 from our TTC (Teacher Training College) are spending their third year program, practicing all what they learned during the first two years in the college and during the bus trip. It was a full day…
Project in Malawi 2015 