Pamoza Family Sponsorship

Transforming the lives of children and families in rural Malawi.

Wish to Sponsor a Family

Sponsorship is $300 a year, which you can donate as a lump sum or donate monthly at $25.
Households Ready to be Sponsored

Family sponsorship ministry

Pamoza International is a Christian non-profit organization headquartered in Zowe, Euthini, Mzimba District, northern Malawi. Pamoza Family Sponsorship Ministry helps families in rural Malawi transform in Character, Health, Income, Education, and Food security by assigning a Family Partnership Facilitator to work with them over the course of 3 years to identify and address their needs across the five C.H.I.E.F. areas.  This has been dubbed the CHIEF Transformation Approach. 

Family Sponsorship involves identifying vulnerable families and closely walking pamoza (together) with them in improving their CHIEF. Each of the transformation unit (C.H.I.E.F) in a family is assessed on a scale of 1 representing poor or bad situation to 5 representing excellent situation. The assessment is done once per year to document the progress a sponsored family is making. It is hoped that within four years, the family will have attained a self-reliant and self-sustainable status. At that time, Pamoza phases out its active involvement with the family but keeps an eye on the family to ensure that its achievement is not compromised. 

 

Households Ready to be Sponsored

About Malawi

Africa Malawi MapMalawi is land-locked. It is bordered by Tanzania in the north and northeast, Mozambique in the east, south, and southwest, and Zambia in the west. Stretching some 360 miles from north to south and 45 miles at its widest part is Lake Malawi, which takes up 20% of the country. It is the third largest lake in Africa. This is not an ordinary lake. It has over 1,000 species of fish (and counting) in its waters. It isn’t just the diversity of species which makes Lake Malawi so special. The lake is home to fish not found anywhere else on the planet, a fact which makes the lake one of the most valuable water ecosystems on earth in terms of natural diversity.

 

Malawi is said to be the Warm Heart of Africa because of its friendly smiling people estimated to be 22 million in a country the size of Pennsylvania. In its development, Malawi has not done well. It is the fourth poorest country in the world with over 70% of its population living below the national poverty line of $2.15 per day as estimated by the World Bank. In this year (2024), Malawi is heading towards a severe food crisis because of drought during the 2023 – 2024 agricultural season, drought brought by the weather pattern that has affected the harvest of maize, the staple food grown by farming households in the country, 84% of whom live in rural areas where agriculture is the main means of livelihood. Most of the income generating activities are agricultural.

Warm Heart of Africa

It is with this reality that Pamoza International, headquartered in a rural area in northern Malawi, seeks to see rural families of Malawi thrive both spiritually and physically.

Pamoza International

P.O. Box 23804, Philadelphia, PA 19143

(267) 422-2837

info@pamoza.org

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