A Pen for Social and Economic Impact

  Le Voyage: Kasungu! How can I ever forget Kasungu. Kasungu Introduced me to my passion. I had my first significant Job in Kasungu. Spending almost 80% of my time working in rural communities and with locals was fulfilling. I had found my true passion. Let me take you back. When I had heard that I got that job in Kasungu I was over the moon. I was going to work to bring back school drop outs to school. I was called the Out of School Child Specialist. What’s more fulfilling than helping others? This job was gold! I remember the day I was leaving Zomba ( a small and beautiful city ) for Kasungu, I believed I felt like the children of Israel leaving Egypt for Canaan. I believed in the good that was to come from working with those children. I had never been to Kasungu. Ofcourse I was told it was not easy to find a house to rent in Kasungu. Indeed, weeks before I left, I tried all I could to have friends in Kasungu find me a house but to no avail. Luckily a friend of a friend offered

  After University, all I wanted was to work with and within rural communities. I found meaning in helping others and I wanted to spend the rest of my life helping people out of poverty. I believe that my background greatly inspired  this desire. Growing up in poverty, I did not see a future for myself. Growing up there was very little at my exposure.   I did not know much. Life was okay so long as Nsima (Malawian staple food) was provided for me and my siblings. The biggest challenge for my family was food: How and where to get food for the day. Nsima was a priority. We did not have a choice really. We did not have the privilege of choosing what to eat. Nsima and vegetables on a daily basis was a huge blessing. When I was in primary school, I went to school every day not because anyone inspired me. No one in our neighborhood was educated. All girls aspired to be married. I went to school because my parents forced me to. My Dad especially. The more I went to school, the more I fou