Temwa supports sustainable community development in rural northern Malawi. Communities live in chronic poverty, depending on subsistence farming for their food and income. They are geographically isolated and face multiple challenges including in their access to decent education and health facilities, safe water, and low crop yields, all exacerbated by floods and droughts caused by climate change.
Temwa runs interlinked projects in sustainable agriculture, forestry, health and education. Temwa supports young children gain a strong foundation for learning through community-led pre-schools. Itshealth work supports youth groups and health facilities to improve young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health and rights. Temwa’s work on sustainable agriculture is supporting Farmers Organisations to grow and sell cash crops, undertake beekeeping and livestock rearing, to increase members’ incomes and build their climate resilience. Finally, Temwa is supporting the planting of trees to provide additional nutrition, to prevent soil degradation, and to help balance CO2 emissions, with the help of Temwa’s Carbon Balance partners. For more information on this scheme, open to individuals and organisations, please follow this link https://carbonbalance.temwa.org/
Temwa has always felt like a natural fit for Shambala: since the charity’s beginnings back in 2003, Bristol’s music and artistic community have helped them raise invaluable funds through gigs, art auctions, and other events. In 2016 they brought their phone charging booth to Shambala, helping festivalgoers keep in touch whilst raising much-needed money for their programmes in Malawi.