Month: August 2020 Posts

Sant’Egidio donates to the elderly in Mulanje

Aug 30, 2020 Archangel Nzangaya 0 &

Sant’Egidio an independent group of the Catholic Church has donated assorted items to elderly people in Mulanje district. The donation was made on Saturday at Thawale ground in the area of Traditional Authority Mabuka in… ...

Malawi needs an urgent social pension for elderly people

Aug 17, 2020 Ephraim Nyondo 0 &

My attention has been drawn to the continued suffering of elderly people in the country. Reports indicate that most of our senior citizens, especially in rural areas, are living in abject and absolute poverty. They… ...

Elderly woman abandoned by her children, rescued by a community

Aug 31, 2019 Luke Bisani 2 &

For three years, Telezina Julius and her grand-daughter had been spending nights in a shed made from the remains of iron sheets of a house she had. Each passing day, Julius who lives in Mulanje… ...

Senior citizens in Malawi to get K20,000 monthly allowance: Malawi Parliament endorses Saulos Chilima’s elderly income scheme

Dec 13, 2018 Mwayi Mkandawire 0 &

Malawi Government is now mandated to give citizens aged 65 and above a K20,000 monthly allowance starting next year. Today, Parliament has passed a motion requiring government to provide financial assistance to older people who… ...

Chilima pledges pension for elderly

Nov 26, 2018 Madalitso Phiri - MEC Stringer 0 &

Malawi Vice President Saulos Chilima has said he will form a Council for Elderly and introduce monthly allowances for the elderly once ushered into power as one way of making sure that old people should stop… ...