A young Man to assist farmers of Get Up Stand Up Project
Peter Mayesu is now the Assistant Clerk for the Get Up Stand Up Project run by Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust. Peter is married with a child. Coming from the poor village of Pyoli where agriculture was his daily bread, we hope he will use his experience in helping farmers of Get Up to improve their […]
“Get Up Stand Up” Rewards Beneficiaries
Some beneficiaries of “Get Up Stand Up” Project went away with assorted prizes for honouring the loan they had with the project when they met for a General Assembly in Umodzi Hall on Saturday, 2 November 2013. “We decided to reward some farmers’ groups for repaying their loans in time,” said Henry Goster, the Project’s […]
Get up stand up shares in Kanyumbaaka Farmers’ success
Henry Goster; Get up stand up project coordinator took a field trip this morning, August 22, to Kanyumbaaka village farmers’ tomato fields. They are benefiting from programs that help them increase production through loans of farms inputs the project offers. Get up stand up targets helping farming families increase production in a sustainable way, and […]
Saving lives
Malawi Blood Transfusion Service came at Andiamo this morning of 18th July to extend an opportunity for Andiamo workers to save a life. Kennedy Alufandika of MBTS illuminated well on the importance of donating blood regularly. He said blood donated is supplied to most of government hospitals which is transfused to anaemic patients or pregnant […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mkwaso Newspaper Salutes Get up stand up Project
Get up stand up Project has performed tremendously. The good news is all over the streets, no wonder it cannot escape the spheres of Mkwaso Newspaper. The project so far has reached out to 20 villages from Traditional Authorities Nsamala and Sawali of Balaka. At least 320 farmers have benefited from modern farming methods as […]
Get Up Stand Up Project trains farmers
A total of 73 farmers from five groups of Get Up Stand Up project last week underwent training in order for them to boost their crop production and keep alive the project. Benson Masala, an agronomist from Mangochi, facilitated the training. During the training, the farmers were drilled in Group Dynamics and Agronomy. On group […]