If you're feeling flush, way not splash out on an entire farmyard for just £482!
Malawi Oxfam worker Naile met a shy grandmother who looked after six orphaned children. She had several chickens and would also climb a hill to break up stone with a small pick for aggregate to sell to industry for extra money to support them.
Oxfam provided her with a cow and she now has a herd and has grown in confidence, speaking out in the village to support other women, and she can afford to send the children to school.
Imagine what a farmyard could do!
Malawi's few hospitals are overstretched and doctors overworked and underpaid. There is a 12% HIV rate and high maternal mortality and it's women who end up looking after the sick or orphans. Despite the lack of equality and no land rights for women, Malawi still has 22% women in parliament compared to the UKs 18%!
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