Bright Vision Orphan Care

Much of Malawi is dependent on farming for their livelihood, and the village of Chamadenga is no exception.   We seek to employ what the local people already know about farming, and work towards making it better.  The agriculture program has become an integral part of what Bright Vision does throughout the year.  While providing jobs for people in the community, we also work toward providing better nutrition and farming outputs in the area.  We now have 17 acres under cultivation during the rainy season, and four acres throughout the year via irrigation from a local dam. 

Malawi is being deforested quickly due to a heavy reliance on wood for cooking (and a relatively high population density). For the last several years we’ve been planting trees, this year alone about 10,000! We either plant them on our land or we distribute them in the community. We hope that our work in reforesting catches on with the village, especially the younger generation.