Explore stories of service, connection, and transformation from CorpsAfrica Volunteers across the continent.
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Margret Chavula Before being sworn in as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, together with my fellow trainees, we went through a 1-month training formally known as Pre-Service Training (PST) where we were...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Chifundo Chibaka This is an ideology that I have come to learn and believe for a while now. It portrays the cost that each of us will have to pay...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Dorothy Mapira It was a sunny day, I could hardly sit in my house because it was hot. In search of fresh air, I took a seat under a big...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Mieke Mmeya “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” — The Once-lor, Dr Seuss’ The Lorax Dear Reader, Before I...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Bertha Mukhuna “Dare to seize all the opportunities on your path.” — Lailah Gifty Akita It is now close to two months since my country has had confirmed cases of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Angella Chizimba Malcolm X once said that when ‘I’ is replaced with ‘We,’ even illness becomes wellness. This quote runs deep in my soul when I think about the Coronavirus...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Chiukepo Mwenechanya People usually say life is a journey but if you look around, you will notice that our life journeys don’t have destinations, let alone journey maps or routes....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Chifundo Chibaka From the beginning, I always knew that the opportunity to serve with CorpsAfrica was a chance for me to meet new people, make new relations, and expand my...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Mieke Mmeya “If it is true that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link, isn’t it also true a society is only as healthy as its sickest...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Dorothy Mapira Many times we feel like we can do it on our own. We rarely give a listening ear to those that we see as inferior to us. We...