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Growing mushrooms at Chiwembe Dam in Limbe

A women's group is harvesting water hyacinth that is choking the dam and composting it to produce the substrate on which mushrooms are cultivated for sale. In an interesting twist to this project, the grantee is using waste-paper briquettes produced by another grantee women's group to sterilize the compost prior to its use. This means that neither wood nor charcoal is needed in the process. The total grant was $2,000 and within seven months of the start of the project, the grantee had earned nearly $1,000 from mushroom sales.

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USAID/ Malawi

Community Based Condom Distribution

Treatment without Frustration
Assistance to small scale farmers
Manesi Harison - A Village Savings and Loans (VS&L) Group Participant
Dina Moyo, Cash for Work Participant in Khongo
Olivetta Mkwenembela, A Business Loan Beneficiary
Machinga and Balaka Input for Assets Project
Improved survival of pregnant women and newborns
Quality education through supporting teaching
Community ownership and participation
Chishango Condom Social Marketing Anecdotes
MACRO: Meeting the growing demand for Voluntary Counseling and Testing
COMPASS: Performance and Impact on local communities
Growing mushrooms at Chiwembe Dam in Limbe
Community-based aquaculture at Kalino Village
Improving the quality of education

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Updated: Wednesday, October 2, 2002

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