After her husband died, Chimwemwe (not her real name) was kicked out of their marriage home in Malawi. On returning destitute to her parents’ village with her two mentally disabled daughters, she found her former home in ruins.
This could have become another forgotten personal tragedy in a remote rural corner of Malawi, except that Chimwemwe was given a social grant of $7 (then equivalent to R53) a month. What she achieved with so little was remarkable.
She built a sturdy new three-roomed mud, wood and iron home in the shade of the trees, started a vegetable garden, employing a neighbour […]
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