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The great momentum set up by the official launch of benefited from the donation through the Total Land
the program ignited a country-wide distribution of this Care’s Transform Project.
fertilizer, during which 100 000 households enthusiastically
received a bag of fertilizer each. Subsequent follow- Winnie Daniel, one of the beneficiaries, who hails from
up launches have been conducted across the country. Mulanje Village, TA Bvumbwe in Thyolo District is over
Among the beneficiaries were included some socially the moon about the donation. “For the past three years,
marginalized groups such as prisoners from Malawi Prison I have been a beneficiary of the government’s farm input
Services in Zomba and refugees in the Dzaleka Refugee subsidy program; we have been sharing a bag of fertilizer
camp in Dowa respectively. Hon. Richard Chimwendo between two people,” she said. Winnie is a member
Banda MP who is the minister of homeland security and of Timvane Farmer Field School. She is among the 1
internal affairs, commented that “Prisoners and refugees 200 beneficiaries in the district who have received the
lives matter” as 6 000 and 1 800 bags of fertilizer were donation through Agromix Suppliers, an AFAP-supported
handed out at these respective events in support of these agrodealer operating in the same district.
institutions’ food-security initiatives.
The Yara Action Africa Program is an initiative with the
AFAP, in collaboration with some of its hub agrodealers goal to mobilize support for smallholder farmers to secure
and the government of Malawi through the Department food production and improved food security. Through the
of Land Resources, has since distributed to 43 800 and initiative YARA donated five metric tonnes of high quality
15 400 thousand farming households across the country NPK fertilizer, which has been distributed to 100 thousand
respectively. AFAP has also partnered with the World vulnerable rural households in Malawi. The donation,
Food Program from which 25 800 farming households combined with agronomic support, is expected to triple
have benefited under the Food for Assets (FFA) program. maize production in Malawi.
Additionally, 7 200 farming households have also

People with disabilities
and the elderly are some
of the disadvantaged
groups being targeted
by the project

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