Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

This project will increase fish production. Nutrients from the pond improve crop production too. Farmers become more skilled at managing water and are better able to resist drought. All these outcomes translate into more income and food.

Project Message

We’ve seen the monetary and nutritional returns the ponds are beginning to bring into our pockets and homes. My people have begun to break the poverty trap in which they had been held for so long.
- Mr. Jusu, Village Headman - Chingale, Zomba, Malawi

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Daniel Jamu,
Regional Director - East and Southern Africa
P.O. Box 229
Zomba, Malawi
Malawi
+265 1 536 298
Email:

Project Sponsor

The Tech Museum Awards

Organization

Learn more about The WorldFish Center and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Malawi and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about Malawi, read the Human Development Report on Malawi or the Wikipedia entry for Malawi.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 07, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 14, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

Fish for the elderly and orphaned children

By Daniel Jamu - Project Leader, August 07, 2008 05:04 PM

As fish caught from natural lakes and streams have traditionally been an important part of the diet in landlocked Malawi, increasing population and declining catches reduced annual per capita fish consumption from 14 kilograms in the 1970s to 4.2 kilograms in 2005. Aquaculture has since been seen as an exit option to relieve pressure from dwindling capture fisheries and increase fish production and consumption. The project “Fish to feed HIV affected families in Malawi” implemented by WorldFish Center in collaboration with World Vision with funding through Global Giving in southern Malawi, helps HIV/AIDS affected and infected poor families including women to live a better life with nutritious food on the table and money in their pockets through appropriate adoption of Integrated Aquaculture-Agriculture (IAA) technologies to the needs of the affected families. Over the past twelve months, the WorldFish Center, with the Global Giving Fund has made remarkable contribution to improving income and food security through the promotion of Integrated Agriculture Aquaculture (IAA) in primary schools. Nineteen (19) ponds have now been constructed and stocked with fish. One school, Samalani, enjoyed its first harvest in June with over 30kgs of fish harvested from a 300 square meter pond. All schools have now opened maize and vegetable fields that are being irrigated from the pond water. The optimism in reducing food and nutritional insecurity increased even more with the adaptation of the IAA technologies to improve incomes and nutritional status of the HIV- affected elderly and orphaned households.
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