Due to the current situation in Malawi, including the still high inflation and a
severe shortage of fuel, the activities of our family planning programme must continue
under difficult conditions.
Nevertheless, we were able to reach an ever-increasing number of women and adolescent
girls over the course of the year, primarily through the many visits to various health
centres and remote regions of our project area, most of which take place on a weekly
basis:
● For example, the Pamoza team nurse, Elvas Njalainandi Kamanga, has visited the
health centres in Nyungwe and Iponga a total of 65 times.
● During these visits, various contraceptives were distributed or administered to
well over 2,000 people, including modern contraceptives such as implants, three-month
injections and IUDs. In addition, a large number of discussion rounds on family planning
and SRHR were held, in which a total of over 2,000 women took part.
● In order to meet the ever-increasing demand for family planning services, we decided
in September 2023 to fund a second nurse as part of our FPP so that we can serve
more health centres and remote areas in the future.
● As before, we continue to use radio programmes and social media to make the messages
of the family planning project accessible to a population group as large as possible.
To this end, further radio programmes were produced which broadcast, focusing on
sexual and reproductive health, the negative consequences of early pregnancies, HIV/AIDS
prevention and the effects of unchecked population growth.
Group Village Kamtenthenga, TA Wasambo-Karonga summarises the most important result
of our family planning programme as follows:
In my area, there has been a high prevalence of unplanned pregnancies which often
lead to early marriages. The project has played a significant role in reducing unplanned
pregnancies as youths now have learnt more on SRH which includes how they can prevent
unplanned pregnancies. So this is a good thing for our communities.
I dropped out of school some years ago when I got pregnant. I was feeling shy going
back to school but today after your encouraging message I have realized that I can
do this no matter what people will say. Now I will use family planning methods so
that I finish my education without any hitch again.
Brenda Gondwe –T/A Wasambo, Karonga
