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Malawi: hunger in a land of plenty
Mar 24, 2011
Paul Jeffrey reports on ACT Alliance work to battle food insecurity in Malawi
ACT in Malawi
Organisations with HQ in Malawi
- Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM)
- Church of Central Africa, Presbyterian (CCAP)
- Churches Action in Relief and Development (CARD)
- Evangelical Lutheran Development Service (ELDS)
International organisations in Malawi
- Christian Aid (CA)
- DanChurchAid (DCA)
- Economic Justice Network of FOCCISA
- Inter-Church Organisation for Development Cooperation (ICCO)
- Norwegian Church Aid (NCA)
Organisations funding work in Malawi
- Brot für die Welt (BfdW) (Bread for the World)
- Church World Service (CWS)
- Church of Sweden (CoS)
- Diakonie Katastrophenhilfe (DKH)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT)
- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission (FELM)
- Icelandic Church Aid (ICA)
- Kerk In Actie (KIA)
- Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (PDA)
- Presbyterian World Service & Development (PWS&D)
- United Church of Zambia (UCZ)
- World Renew (WR) - formerly Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
About Malawi
- Population: 14.9 million (World Bank, 2010)
- Capital: Lilongwe
- Area: 118,484 sq km (45,747 sq miles)
- Major languages: English, Chichewa (both official)
- Major religions: Christianity, Islam, traditional African religions
- Life expectancy: 52 years (men), 54 years (women) (UN)
- Monetary unit: 1 Malawi kwacha (MK) = 100 tambala
- Main exports: Tobacco, tea, sugar, cotton
- GNI per capita: US $290 (World Bank, 2008)