In today’s highly competitive sporting environment, athletes and athlete support personnel are under increasing pressure to do whatever it takes to win. As a result, the use of performance enhancing substances and methods in sport is becoming more pervasive. This phenomenon is not limited to elite athletes; young people and amateur
The drive to ensure that youths are engaged in community development comes against a background where research has revealed that the youth in Malawi form 40% of the total population, indicating that Malawi is a youthful nation. It also comes in the wake of the knowledge that 15% of the
The Malawi National Commission for UNESCO and Consol Homes organised a 10 days Entrepreneurship training for 80 vulnerable youth around TA Kalolo in Lilongwe funded by UNESCO. Self Help Groups (SHG) National Trainers were the main facilitators with four others supporting them with the life skills topics. The training, which
Concerned with lack of resources to finance the arts and cultural sector, stakeholders in the sector have called on for an establishment of a Cultural Fund in order to curb financial challenges facing the sector. According to a joint stakeholders Communique, the group is calling each government institution to look
Between 2017 and 2018, Malawi National Commission supported the Foundation for Arts and Culture to develop a database of cultural industries in Malawi (www.foacmw.org/index.php/database/) with the objectives of: Facilitating greater networking and information sharing among cultural industries in Malawi and internationally; To develop capacities for management of databases on culture;
