Malawi

It’s a dangerous profession, but Dinnes Whispah, a fisherman who maintains he doesn’t employ children, also says, “Going to the lake at a young age is like going to school and learning a trade… the figures have been reducing in the past two years, but you can still find some children coming to th

Waterborne diseases are common in this country of 13.1 million people and a 2008 report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) found that 12,000 Malawian children under the age of five die every year due to diarrhoea and other associated diseases.

Until I started knocking on people’s office doors to ask about what was being done to celebrate this year’s International Literacy Day in Malawi, 8 September, I hadn’t thought of how differently various people might interpret the concept of ‘literacy’.