Learn how to make futali, a traditional breakfast meal in Malawi made from sweet potatoes and peanut flour.
Growing Malawi’s Economy through Orant’s FEM Program
Read our latest blog to learn more about how our Financial Empowering Microloans (FEM) for Women program serves the Kasese community and helps to lift a heavy burden off the community’s shoulders.
Making Dreams into a Reality: Orant’s Microloan Program in Malawi
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.
Microloans and Building Business Skills in Malawi
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.
Cultivating a Savings Culture in Malawi
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.
How to Make Thobwa: Malawian Recipes
Learn how to make thobwa, one of Malawi’s common traditional beverages, with Maness Nkhoma’s recipe. Maness is a FEM participant at Orant.
The Orant Farm Project: Dumase’s Story
The Orant Farm Project distributed 20 acres of our farmland to Kasese farmers. Of the farmer recipients was Dumase Mtengowamingo.
Meet Mara Kamutu: Orant Sponsored Student
Meet Mara Kamutu: Orant Sponsored Student Mara Kamutu – Orant Sponsored Student Cases of school dropouts and early marriages are not a peculiar phenomenon in the Northern Part of Dowa, T/A Nsakambewa. Even intelligent girls tend to not realize their potential due to the realities of poverty. According to a report by The World Bank, […]
Meet Esther: Orant Ulemu Scholarship Student
Esther Maupa is a 2022 recipient of the Orant Ulemu Scholarship. This scholarship covers university tuition for Orant Sponsored Students.
Takeaways from The Moment of Lift
Orant Charities highlights three takeaways from reading The Moment of Lift by Melinda Gates — how empowering women changes the world.