Year: 2024

Following the long and rigorous foundational works of the Finnish Association of the Deaf, supporting the promotion of sign language in Malawi, MANAD finally organized a national spelling bee competition…

With financial support from the Finish Association of the Deaf (FAD) MANAD conducted a 2 days' workshop on capacity building to deaf women and youth which were selected from various…

With the aim of boosting the capacity of its organization, Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) conducted the Board and Staff training on the capacity building and the review…

As one way of promoting sign language in among academic circles, Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) presented 30 copies of Malawian Sign Language Dictionary and 10 flash discs…

As we are aware the disaster, we had during the Cyclone Freddy that caused much damage in many parts of the country especially in the southern region including Blantyre, Phalombe,…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) advocacy committee attended their first advocacy meeting on 13 and 14 May 2023 where they discussed a number of strategic advocacy activity plan…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) presented 60 copies of Malawian Sign Language Dictionary to the National Initiative for Civic Education (NICE) as one way of promoting Malawian Sign…

World Federation of the Deaf organized the Human Rights and Advocacy workshop which was held in South Africa where a various deaf organization from different countries were invited. The meeting…

Reading for All Malawi (REFAM EGRA reports 2020, 2022), found that 1. Lack of MSL skills amongst teachers, Deaf children and parents of Deaf children are some of the key…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) attended the world hearing day commemoration at Chichiri secondary school on 2 March 2023. During the event MANAD briefed the crowd on the…

MANAD ADVOCACY COMMITTEE MEMBER VOICES OUT THE CHALLENGES THE DEAF COMMUNITY FACE IN TERMS OF MEDIA INTERACTION. MBC Director of News and Programs Madam Khonje had a meeting with one…

IRJA SEILOLA, A FINISH ASSOCIATION OF THE DEAF (FAD) REPRESENTATIVE INTERACTED WITH PARENTS OF DEAF CHILDREN GROUP 11 parents of deaf children who form Parents of Deaf Children Group had…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) presented 90 copies of Malawian Sign Language Dictionary to the Malawi National Library Services (NLS) as one way of promoting Malawian Sign Language…

MANAD team recently Sensitized parents/guardians of children suspected to have deafness and the importance of sending the children to school in Blantyre and Phalombe, the parents/ guardians also received a…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) conducted a website training in Liwonde on 17 and 18 December 2022. The training was organized to orient the MANAD staff on how…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) attended a human rights workshop in Lilongwe on 14 December 2022 at Simama Hotel. The workshop was organized by Centre for Human Rights…

Malawi National Association of the Deaf (MANAD) distributed 4 Malawian Sign Language Dictionaries to the Head Teacher of Mpalankhanga special needs Secondary school (School for the deaf) Sr Agness Njirayakonda…

MANAD DISSEMINATED MSL DICTIONARY INFORMATION TO THE MWANZA DISTRICT DISABILITY FORUM (DDF) Mwanza District Disability Forum (DDF) chairperson Gedion Chikasamba and the area Councillor Kaisi Chimbalanga giving their closing remarks…

MANAD secretariat engaged the Mwanza Deaf community and disseminated the Malawian Sign Language Dictionary information. Meria Khwalala a Sign Language Research Assistant explaining to MANAD members in Mwanza the importance…

MANAD Disseminates copies of MSL Dictionary to the officials during the Chikwawa District Executive Council Meeting MANAD attended a district executive council meeting in Chikwawa district on 9th December 2022…