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Over the years, there has been an increase in the number of children with disabilities enrolled at Kaphuta Primary School in Mzimba district. In 2021, the school enrolled 80 and in 2022, the figure rose to 97. Currently, the school has 101 learners with various forms of disabilities.  

When she was impregnated aged at 16 years in 2019, Passover Ngwara was destined to become a statistic—a promising young girl who got pregnant, dropped out of primary school and fell into the vicious poverty trap. A typical rural Malawian story that replicates itself across this country.

Divorced with seven hungry kids to feed, 37-year-old Grace Emmanuel typified poverty in its perfect form.

In Muhilili Village in the district of Zomba, a forest of trees atop sitting on a hill stands like a crown jewel at the heart of the village—lush and forestry—a sharp contrast to the bare hills in the surrounding villages which pale in comparison.

But it was not always like this.

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