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In southern Malawi, and precisely in Balaka, Father Mario Pacifici, Monfort missionary, arrived here thirty five years ago and founded with Cesare Castelli the "Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust" which now has nearly 700 workers. The Cooperative operates within four areas of development:- People find jobs in the 33 activities of Andiamo, including health care, education, vocational training, construction, agriculture, mechanics, sports, and last but not the musical one. Precisely in this context born the Alleluya Band, a band created in 1978 as a church choir and now became the point of musical reference throughout Malawi. Our representative in Italy is Orizzonte Malawi onlus, that use the valuable collaboration of many associations:
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Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust promotes activities designed to preserve and disseminate culture, customs and traditions that are part of the tribal history of the Malawian population, but also accompanies the new generations in modern cultural and artistic growth. Exist within the cooperative’s a school of music and a traditional dance with qualified teachers, open to all children in the community.
In this context work the Alleluya Band, the group of absolute relevance in music scene in Malawi that promotes, also through the tour in Italy, the traditional culture through songs and dances of pre-colonial tribes.
In connection with the Campus School and the local community, it promotes sport as a tool for education and training through the teaching of disciplines such as athletics, basketball, volleyball and football, and the encouragement of traditional sports such as net-ball.
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Andiamo Holds Inter Schools Athletics Competition
Andiamo ground was a place to be on Saturday, 30 May 2015 as hundreds athletes from across Balaka district poured in to compete in the ninth edition of Andiamo Hope Trophy, an inter-schools athletics competition sponsored by Andiamo Youth Cooperative … Continue reading
Alleluya Band Tour to Comfort the Children
Alleluya band’s annual tour to Italy this year aims at supporting Comfort Community Hospital which treats Under 15 children for free this is disclosed in Fr. Mario Pacifici’s Pentecost message. The hospital also gives food to the admitted children for … Continue reading
Kefasi wins gold for Malawi
Kefasi Kasiteni of Andiamo Secondary School won the senior men 12 kilometres clocking 36:59:20 at this year’s Confederation of African Athletics Southern Region (CAASR) Cross Country Championship at Njamba Freedom Park on Saturday. Malawians dominated the cross-country that also pooled … Continue reading
Kasiteni to represent Malawi at Southern Africa Cross Country
Kefasi Kasiteni, a form 4 student at Andiamo Secondary School will represent Malawi at the Southern Africa Cross-Country on February 21 at Freedom Park in Blantyre. Kasiteni finished as the champion in the senior men’s category last week at a … Continue reading
Double Celebrations Today at AYCT
Today we celebrate the birthday of Alleluya band and the Feast day of our founding trustee Fr. Mario Pacifici. Alleluya band was born on 19 January 1978 on the feast day of Fr. Mario. We are not throwing a party … Continue reading
Fr. Mario talks Highly of “Giving”
Fr. Mario Pacifici says if we give something of ourselves we do not lose anything, but rather “make a deposit in the bank of love” that accumulates sooner or later with an interest that “far exceeds that of any bank”. … Continue reading
Mphipe Lodge Officially Open
We have a new week before us. We can surely not start this week without reflecting on the function we had on 15 November 2014 at Cape Maclear. On this day we officially opened Mphipe Lodge and Restaurant. As Bishop … Continue reading
AEI at it again!
For nine years we have brought together young athletes around Balaka through Andiamo Education Institutions (AEI) to compete for different prizes in the process we identify talents. This year we have gone national. Athletes around Malawi have gathered at Andiamo … Continue reading
MAM Recognises Andiamo Music School Band
After emerging winners of Chibuku road to fame music competition, Andiamo Music school Band has won the recognition of the national music body- Music Association of Malawi (MAM). “Moyo ndi Mpamba” campaign recently approached MAM to provide reputable bands and … Continue reading
Alleluya Back with “Mbambande Malawi”
For a better cause, Alleluya Band is back after a three-month tour of Italy. Left Malawi on May 26 with a single reason- raise funds to boost health services delivery for Comfort community hospital in Malawi’s southern region district of … Continue reading
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