What is your initiative?

This soil remediation initiative aims to explore the potential of community-driven sustainable agriculture on the TPM campus. Land exploitation during colonization depleted the ecosystem’s nutrients, so to restore soil health and resilience we will work together with the local women to experiment with integrated livestock management.

What is your connection to your chosen community?

Transformative Praxis Malawi (TPM) is a not-for-profit community owned campus in Chilanga. I started working with the TPM virtually (due to the pandemic) in 2021 through a course, collaborating with the campus staff, whilst also learning about the history, culture and exploitative nature of voluntourism in Malawi. In a small team, we worked with one of the programming faculty to develop a women’s chicken cooperative. Many projects are currently underway on the campus and this initiative will be integrated into TPMs ecosystem!

What are you looking forward to this year?

The people, the land and the goats! I am really excited for all the relationships I will get to build, to work with the land in Malawi, and, of course, for the goats!