Our Water and Sanitation program continues to make a significant difference in the lives of students in rural Malawi. Read our latest blog to learn about how we support hygiene initiatives in primary schools in Dowa, Malawi.
Our Holistic Programs in Malawi
Orant Charities Africa has a holistic approach to serving our community. Orant’s operations strive to empower women, inspire hope, and improve lives. Our programs help tens of thousands of people every year whether that means delivering a child, providing microloans to local women entrepreneurs, delivering sanitary pads to students, or administering malaria medication to the sick, we are there to support our community in all its endeavors.
Orant's Value Added
Orant’s staff is 100% African and lives in and around the same communities that we are helping to strengthen.
Orant uses data-analysis to know when our programs are making an impact or when it’s time to make a change.
We combine our local expertise and cultural knowledge with expert international logistic and fundraising support.
Stories From The Field
It is always heartbreaking whenever a mother sees her child sick. For Consolatta Kazinga, the situation was worse as she watched her two children on hospital beds, suffering from sickle cell anemia and waiting to receive blood.
Many women in rural Malawi find themselves stuck in the poverty cycle due to lack of business capital. Our FEM Program works with such women, helping them transform their lives as they become independent. Learn more in our latest blog as Sophelet’s shares her story.
Students in our Education Program build relationships with the donors who sponsor them and allow them to attend secondary school in Malawi.
This week, we had an interview with Linda Phiri, our program manager for the Maternal, Neonatal, Child and Adolescent Health Services.
At the end of 2022 we introduced our third group of our Financial Empowering Microloan (FEM) for Women group called Takondwa. Read our latest blog, as Magret Moffat, one of the group's beneficiaries, tells a story of how the program has already transformed her life through loans and business skills training.
The Orant Ulemu Scholarship helps students achieve their dreams of education at university. Steven Chiundira is one of two recipients in 2023.
Orant's Mobile Outreach Clinic diagnosed Tadala with severe malnutrition. Malnutrition in Malawi is at its worst January to March.
As a way of cultivating a saving culture in the FEM Program, Orant requires each cohort to establish a savings group. Why is this important? Find out here.
Who grows cash crops in Malawi? What are the best cash crops for the climate and soil? Which are most profitable? We interviewed Orant’s Agriculture Extension Officer Gracious Msimuko for expert insight.