There are alot of good things happening in Malawi and Africa as a whole. Why is it that these people focus on the negative things when doing their documentaries???

Yes there is poverty in Malawi but on the other hand the crop situation is very good. Why not focus on that for change.

As for helping out, we should indeed help our brothers and sisters. I would have loved if all children were learning in classes and not under a tree as it is in other parts of Malawi. Maybe that is where we should focus on at the moment.

Yes njala ilipo but not in the way the CCN has presented it, its not dire NOPE
imagine a bag of 50kg maize last year was at the rage of 3000 to 3500mk
koma panopa 850 to 1000 in some areas 600mk. This means chimanga chilipo ndiye a CNN apezechina  

as mulomwe said they mainly focus on negative things  

 If CNN and BBC (as is the case) keeps focusing on the poverty in Malawi, it is to the advantage for our govt because the donors will also focus on our country first. Debt cancellations will apply and more NGOs will flock into the country try to alleviate the situation. 

Just last week on the 17th March was the Red Nose Day in the UK which was organised by the Comic Relief, and most of the funds raised on this day was aimed to help our very brothers and sisters who live in poverty in Malawi. Out of all African countries somehow all the focus now is on Malawi. Honestly, anthu akubvutika kumudzi and lets not look on the negative side of it. Lets think!!

That is only my point of view, I dont know how you look at it guys.

My point above is in support of Eetchef's but fully in disagreement with Mulomwe and Atame's arguments.

ndsote wrote:

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You have a very valid point.As sons and daughters we should all strive to play a part o matter how little in alleviating the problems faced in Malawi.We spend more time arguing against each other with no positive outcome.We even condemn our parliamenterians.Are we any different?

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its good to talk about things like this sometimes ,you can come in here and tell me to support fellow malawians ,but look at it this way,there is no way i can help a total stranger when my own family is dying of hunger  .it doesnt make any sense if  if take R200 and give it to a charity organisation whilst my own grandmother didnt eat a thing last night .
looking at malawi as a whole ,palibe amene angandiuze kuti there isnt that one peron that is not  struggling to feed his /her family   within the family itself .for some of us ,maybe you are the only one doing better in the whole clan ,what are you doing about it ? nothing ......its not your ploblem ,come a charity benifit ,you contribute so much and u forget some of your cousins who spent the whole week eating phala ......
charity begins @ home  guys .if you cant help your own blood ,dont be  a hypocrite and advise pple on how to help malawi.
imagine if you can buy some groceries for those aunts or uncles (whom u  you are so ashamed to be seen with )imagine how many pple you can help .now pple ,thats helping malawi ...

Couldn’t agree with you more TT. I personally don’t give money to charitable organizations, I prefer to give directly to what ever cause that i believe, that if i donate it will make a difference.in other words i prefer to "cut the middleman " out of the whole equation. its a fact that Charities incur costs and overheads. Therefore for example if you donate lets say a $50 by the time the money reaches Africa (that is if, it does reach Africa) after all the cost have been deducted we are talking about something in the region of $12-15 going towards the cause.

The worse organizations to donate to are the big charities, the likes of the Red Cross. Cause what they will normally have what are called "disaster funds", so for example lets say they has been a disaster in Malawi, they will make an appeal. You will donate you’re hard earned cash but what you don’t know is that the money will not go directly to Malawi instead it goes direct into the disaster fund, then the money is divided amongst the various causes all over the world.

-- Edited by rick at 17:10, 2007-03-22

Njiba wrote:

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Eetchef,

Is it just my opinion or has your post been misunderstood ?

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