Freiburg project enables women to learn tailoring
2 September 2019 •
• Badische Zeitung
You can still see a little of Anne Pleuser’s recently completed trip from South East Africa. Engaged and with a certain residual tan on her face, she talks about “Taste of Malawi” – a project that helps women in Lilongwe to become independent.
Creative chaos: Laura is in Africa for a year
6 June 2019 •
• Waldeckische Landeszeitung
Get out of my automatism: This was one of my reasons for going to a country that seems less orderly than Germany. A country where the processes are different or where there are no processes that are always the same: Malawi.
40,000th volunteer with weltwärts
3 June 2019 •
• Weltwärts
Laura Stertenbrink is the 40,000th volunteer to carry out a development policy voluntary service since the start of the weltwärts programme in 2008.
Africans and europeans learn from each other
15 March 2019 •
• Stuttgarter Zeitung
Nadja Mühlhäuser has suffered a minor culture shock twice. The first time when she came to Malawi, and a second time after she had left the Southeast African country after a good six months’ stay and had to get used to everyday life in Germany again.
Colourful fabrics become existences
18 February 2019 •
• Der Teckbote
Nadja Mühlhäuser doesn’t particularly like the word “help”. “I think the English word “empowerment” is better,” she says. It means something like empower or enable. And that is exactly what the “Taste of Malawi” project is about, offering sewing courses to local women in this landlocked East African country.
2017
Taste of Malawi supports women
3 May 2017 •
• Badische Zeitung
They want to support women in Malawi – and learn something about markets, distribution and “development work” themselves.
Accompaniment to independence
13 February 2017 •
• Westfalenpost
A student from Hagen supports the education of women in Malawi, Africa. The aim is to help them find their way into an independent existence. How can I give women in the Third World an education so that they can earn money independently of organisations?
Helping people to help themselves
4 January 2017 •
• STÄDTISCHES GYMNASIUM ERWITTE
A formative year. After graduating from our school, Johanna Knoop went to Malawi for twelve months in the summer of 2013. In the country in the south of Africa, she worked with children in a project of the Franciscan Sisters of Salzkotten in the village of Ludzi (we reported several times).
Training for African seamstresses
3 January 2017 •
• RHEINISCHE POST
With her association Taste of Malawi, Jana Piske wants to help women in Lilongwe to become independent. The woman from Kleinenbroich provides training and commercial knowledge and has also set up an internet shop.
kfd donates 450 euros for aid project
3 January 2017 •
• DER PATRIOT
The kfd Erwitte has donated 450 Euros to the charitable association “Taste of Malawi”. The members of the kfd collected the money at their last Advent celebration. Marietheres Lier from the pastoral association office in Erwitte and kfd members Barbara Lüchtefeld and Maria Roß now handed over the cheque to Johanna Knoop, a student from Erwitte who is responsible for fundraising for the association.
2016
Using talents efficiently
29 November 2016 •
• DER PATRIOT
“A project for gifted women.” This is the slogan of The Taste of Malawi, a project that supports Malawian tailors and gives them a bit of independence.
For women and children
28 April 2016 •
• Badische Zeitung
In the civic hall of the Old Town Hall, the Board of Directors and Foundation Council of the Brücke Foundation awarded this year’s Promotion Prize and the 2015 Recognition Prize.
2015
Mode made in Malawi
15 September 2015 •
• STADTSPIEGEL MÖNCHENGLADBACH
Malawi is a landlocked country in Southeast Africa. It borders Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania. Jana Piske would immediately find the country in the atlas, but not only because she will soon be studying geography. The young woman from Kleinenbroich lived there for two years. During that time, she founded the “Taste of Malawi” project and would like to continue promoting it from home.
Help for African dressmakers
10 August 2015 •
• RHEINISCHE POST
Jana Piske from Kleinenbroich has launched the “Taste of Malawi” project to help seamstresses in Malawi to become independent. It is about commercial basics and financial independence.
2013
Kleinenbroicherin helps in Malawi for a year
28 December 2013 •
• RHEINISCHE POST
Jana Piske lebt für ein Jahr in Malawi und arbeitet dort bei einem Straßenkinderprojekt. In den ersten vier Monaten hat sie bereits viele Eindrücke gesammelt.