Get Up Stand Up Farmers Can Now Smile
“Get Up Stand Up” farmers should stop panicking as to when they will receive fertilizers for their fields as the fertilizers have just arrived at Andiamo. Since it has started to rain in some places around Balaka, farmers including those in the “Get Up Stand Up” project were panicking, doubting this year they would get […]
Time to Harvest
At last we can now harvest our maize after some months of working hard. As we harvest we remember people who have helped us to reach this far. We have in mind the Late Peppino, who was the president of the Lawyers Association of Bergamo. Through his organisation, Peppino helped the “Get Up Stand Up” […]
Henry Goster is the new Deputy Director of AYCT
Henry Goster is the new Deputy Director of Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust (AYCT). Fr. Mario Pacifici, one of the founding trustees of AYCT, announced this Tuesday morning, 5 November 2013 in a “special meeting”. According to Fr. Mario, Henry, who until his appointment was the Coordinator for “Get Up Stand Up” microcredit project, has been […]
Fertilizers finally arrive
One word describes the atmosphere at Get Up Stand Up office on Friday. Relief. The much-awaited 600 bags of two different types of fertilizers arrived on Thursday evening and were offloaded on Friday, 25 October morning. Henry Goster, the Get Up Stand Up Project Coordinator says he is relieved that the fertilizers have arrived just […]
Malawi commemorates World Food Day
Today, 16 October Malawi joins the international community in commemorating World Food Day. This year’s theme is “Sustainable Food Systems for Food Security and Nutrition”. According to the joint press statement by World Food Programme (WFP), Food Agriculture Organisations (FAO) and the Malawi government, this theme emphasizes the importance of lasting food systems in producing […]
Get up stand up project up for next growing season already
The harvesting season has just ended. Get up stand up has already started to engage itself readying for the next growing season. The project is preparing land estimated 8acres right behind the Andiamo Campus, near the fish pond, where it plans to plant maize. The farm is located at convenient site for easy supervision. “Farming […]
Mwaiwathu settles Get up stand up debts before the deadline
The Mwaiwathu club of Msamanyada village at Kapandatsitsi has shown a good example of settling their loan way before the deadline which is in August. Henry Goster; the get up stand up coordinator has reported this as welcome development and a dazzling emblem of cooperativeness in the project. “They have paid back their loan at […]
Andiamo Entrance has a new face
It is the same campus that has changed the lives of many for 30 years now but with a new sign post. It is the Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust Campus: the home of Alleluya Band; Administration block; Get Up Stand Up Project; Cobbler, Mechanic and Carpentry Sections. By the way, the sign post was designed […]
Return the Favour
It is harvesting time and the clubs under Get up stand up project have started settling their non interest loans in forms of money or maize. Good rains in the growing season has also contributed to profuse harvest Get up stand up farmers have registered this year. “We hope farmers won’t give us problems settling […]
Get up Stand up project advocates for Solidarity
Henry Goster; Get Up Stand Up coordinator paid a visit to Msamanyada 10-full-time farmers’ group on the 15th of March, 2013 at Kapandatsitsi at least 15 km from Balaka town. The total cultivated land of the group increased from 6.8 hectors on the last season to 12.9 hectors in the current season giving an increment of […]