Malawi
Meet the fifth group of CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteers.
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Staff
Country Director
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Arthur Nkosi serves as Director of CorpsAfrica/Malawi. He has worked within the service industry for Fortune 500 companies in the United States and has over twelve years of banking experience in micro-finance. As the Chief Human Resources Officer at Opportunity International Bank of Malawi, where he managed a workforce of more than 600 employees, his focus was on staff development and organizational behavior. Since that position, Arthur has worked as the Client Portfolio Director with Non-Government Organizations and Government entities in Malawi to build sustainable communities through financial services. Arthur has a BA in Marketing and Business Administration from the University of Indianapolis (US) and a PgD in Leadership and Change Management from Leeds Beckett University (UK). He lives in Lilongwe with his wife and two children. Email: ankosi@corpsafrica.org.
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Program Coordinator
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Promise Trust Chiwalo holds a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Extension from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources. He served as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer in Malawi in the third cohort. During his service, Promise worked with a group of farmers in Neno district on an income-generating irrigation farming project. He also sensitized his community about cervical cancer and taught English and life skills at the community primary school. Prior to CorpsAfrica, he worked as a project assistant intern for Agricultural Commodity Exchange for Africa in the programs department. He also worked as a part-time research assistant for World Vision, both during and after college. He loves reading good books, especially Christian classics and biographies. Promise is now working as a Program Coordinator for CorpsAfrica/Malawi. Email: pchiwalo@corpsafrica.org
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Executive Assistant
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During her CorpsAfrica service in Mulanje District in Malawi, Assiatu Pongolani taught at a local Orphan Centre. She helped with lessons, games and feeding children every day. As a trained and experienced Grassroots Soccer Coach, Assiatu graduated 21 students during her service with an aim of empowering and engaging the youth in order to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS. Additionally, she also did substantial work with the Village Development Committee to decide how to design a bridge project to link a large section of a community to where main resources are such as the market. She believes that active citizen participation is a key to development in the African continent. Continuing with her Volunteering carrier with CorpsAfrica, Assiatu served in Senegal as an Exchange Volunteer in Elinkine Village in Ziguinchor. She worked with the Women's Association to implement a Food Transformation project with 21 women as an income-generating activity with an aim to preserve and transform different kinds of food such as grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables. She also trained community women, primary and secondary school students and fellow CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteers of Group 2 and Group 3 on hand sewing and reusable sanitary pads for hygiene and sanitation as a way of sharing best practices from Malawi with Senegalese communities. Assiatu has worked closely with Peace Corps Volunteers in Malawi by helping, planning and implementing Girls Leading Our World camps for five consecutive years. She was the first ever Malawian young woman involved in a coordinating team among the Peace Corps Volunteers since its birth in Malawi. As the Program Officer, Assiatu has been working with a non-profit youth organization in Mitundu that deals with young people with HIV/AIDS, climate change, sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender for more than five years. Assiatu also volunteered internationally in Thurso, Scotland on a Global Exchange program where she worked with local communities. Assiatu has a Diploma in Community Development that she obtained from Skyway University in 2016.
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CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer, Deborah with children of her village.
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Myson assisting a woman in a local village in Malawi
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