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Sukasanje Community, Malawi

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Sukasanje Community, Malawi
  • Population25,851
  • Villages63
  • Temp 23°C
Sukasanje is a rural farming community in southern Malawi's valleys and mountains, but frequent floods, droughts and cyclones are disrupting harvests, straining essential services, and leaving children without the nutrition and support they need to thrive.

Sponsorship is helping to tackle 3 big challenges facing children in Sukasanje:
  1. Environtmental damage is making it harder for families to feed their kids.
  2. Kids aren't getting the nutrition and healthcare they need.
  3. Many kids are vulnerable to abuse and exploitation.

Building a brighter future together


By sponsoring children in Sukasanje, you are making an incredible difference in the lives of vulnerable children and their families.

Your support is helping improve the physical, emotional, spiritual and social well-being of the most vulnerable children in the Sukasanje community.

Through decades of experience, we have proven that the most effective way to help a child is to strengthen their entire community, caring for every child along the way.

Together, we are tackling the hard problems, changing mindsets and behaviours, and addressing the root causes of poverty. By working alongside children, families and community members, we are helping create lasting change that will benefit generations to come.

Your support will make a life-changing impact for children in Sukasanje

You’re helping to train families and give the support they need to improve their livelihoods, protect their environment, and create a better future for their children.

You’re helping children get the nutrition support, health checks, and treatment they need to survive, thrive, and reach their full potential.

You’re helping strengthen local child protection networks, improve reporting and response services, and keep children safe from harm.

For every child you sponsor, four more children in their community benefit too.


Meet some of the children and families you'll stand alongside

“Every day I live in fear not knowing what may happen to my child” Esnart (23)

“Every day I live in fear not knowing what may happen to my child” Esnart (23)

After Cyclone Freddy tore through in 2023, families like Esnart's are still struggling. Harvests haven't recovered, food is scarce, and her 11-month-old is showing signs of malnutrition.

She's not alone. Between January and March this year, health workers screened 2,359 children under five — and many are receiving treatment for malnutrition, with more still out of reach. With your support, health workers can reach families like Esnart's before it's too late.
“We expected to call our baby Joshua” Bridget

“We expected to call our baby Joshua” Bridget

On 25 November 2025, Bridget Musemu went into labour with her second baby, the son she and her husband had already named Joshua. The health centre near her home couldn’t deliver him safely, so she was referred to a hospital more than 100 kilometres away. Joshua didn’t survive. Birth asphyxia, caused by the prolonged journey and labour.

Bridget’s story is not unusual here. But it doesn’t have to stay this way. With better health infrastructure and trained community health workers, families in Sukasanje can get the care they need before it becomes a crisis.

"I knew I was on my way to achieving my dreams"
Read Sophlet's story

Sophlet, 15

Transforming communities together

We will partner with the Sukasanje community until 2038. Almost all of our staff working in Malawi are Malawian. Real change doesn’t happen in a season. It happens over years, by listening, building trust, and turning up again and again until the work belongs to the community itself. Our job, and yours, is to walk alongside them and make sure they have what they need to keep going.

Started 2026

Completing 2038

Did you know?

Did you know?

Malawi sits in southern Africa, home to 22.1 million people.

It’s a country about half the size of the United Kingdom, known for its warmth, its people, and the extraordinary Lake Malawi, which covers one-fifth of the country and is home to more than 1,000 species of fish. Locals call it the Lake of Stars.

Malawi has two seasons: a cool, dry season from May to October, and a hot, wet season from November to April. For farming communities like Sukasanje, the rains can be a lifeline or a disaster, depending on the year.