Explore stories of service, connection, and transformation directly from CorpsAfrica Volunteers across the continent.
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Wezi Kayira The 15th of November marked a whole new beginning for me. This new chapter involved leaving all the...
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Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Caroline Luka Imagine waking up in a place where no one knows who you are or your reasons for being...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Chancy Simba I arrived at Pre-Service Training in Dedza together with four other Trainees from Lilongwe about a month ago....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani Today the 22nd of March is World Water Day. The day was proposed and established by the United...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu When I first came to my site in February 2016, I was nervous, taking myself for my family...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I always wanted to Volunteer. Leave home, be on my own, meet new people, and learn a new...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela The hills are alive again. It is green everywhere, from the endless fields of maize to the miombo...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga Reposted from Tobiyasi in Chiradzulu “There is no forgiveness when one who claims a superiority falls below the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese My last activity as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer was to train the girls in my community in how to...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Hameth Ndoye Cabrousse, Sénégal 2016- 2017 Good things take time. Great things take a lot of time. The best things...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira This year’s Christmas season was a bit different from all other years. I spent most of the season...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Aissatu Pongolani It has been my awesome pleasure and great time living in the Kadewere community and working with community...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Exchange Volunteer Mr. Adnane Sounni Nowadays many philanthropists and people interested in the development discuss how raising chicken can be a solution...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu Now that I have about a month to finish my service as a Volunteer with CorpsAfrica, I sat...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga Me: Uli ndi zaka zingati ndipo uli standard chani? (How old are you and what grade are you?)...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani In June this year, I embarked on a project to empower the women of my community in a...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira December 5th is International Volunteers Day, and this year’s theme was “Global Applause: Give Volunteers a Hand”. This...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Assiatu Pongolani The title above, itself, gives a person thousands and thousands of questions on how and why things happen...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese I must admit, it was quite a transition from the All-Country-Conference in Morocco (I will not dwell on...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela The name Lusekelo is hard to pronounce. So her choice of names for me was either, ‘inu'(you) or...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Maroc Volunteer Ms. Hafssa Ait Tabamoute People on my site “Tiouchi” had a very busy and outstanding summer time. It was a very...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Before joining CorpsAfrica, I always had several questions in my mind about the prevalence of poverty in Malawi....
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Usually (villagers) know exactly what the (stranger) wants to hear them say, and they say it in the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I think we all want to make a difference somehow, we all want to be remembered for something...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu Never would I have thought that I would hike the High Atlas mountains of Morocco, but thanks to...
Written by CorpsAfrica Volunteers Ms. Ndeye Awa Gueye (Senegal), Mr. Lahcen Chanchaf (Morocco), and Mr. Emas Potolani (Malawi) Hello Dear Readers, This is our first...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira Mango season has just begun all over Malawi and it couldn’t have come at a better time. My...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Boubacar Diallo From Friday, September 16 to Sunday 18, the village youth grouped as part of the l’Association Socio-culturelle pour...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga Samuel Johnson once said, “Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller” -Ibn Battuta As I insinuated in...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Emas Potolani “Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana I have always been slim and tiny. I don’t remember at any point in my life weighing much...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “We are not here to take part. We are here to take over” -Conor McGregor I am writing...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Sarah Kazira During Pre-service training, we had a permaculture expert come and talk to us about perma-gardening, and with the...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu I can’t say am overwhelmed but I am proud of my community. When I first had the idea...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Lusekelo Simwela As a Volunteer, we are ‘armed’ with some tools that help us work and fully integrate into our...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Tusayiwe Sikwese A few months into my service, I started feeling a bit lonely and I wanted a puppy. So...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Mama Diop A locality, whatever its nature, its ground, and its resources, needs all its living forces to develop. In...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Deborah Kamanga For the past two weeks, I have been going to bed or waking up to the sound of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Lucy Chihana This month I decided to take some days off from my site, take that vacation, get some of...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Vanessa Chimutu So now that Corps Africa mid-service training and Age Africa scholars retreat is over, I sat down and...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Assiatu Pongolani Clearly, for those who follow me here, almost every post in the past few months of blogging has...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Mr. Limbani Kumanga “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do” – Johann Wolfgang Von...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Malawi Volunteer Ms. Aissatu Pongolani While at our Pre-Service Training as a CorpsAfrica Trainee to become a Volunteer, we had this wonderful, exciting,...
Written by CorpsAfrica/Senegal Volunteer Mr. Boubacar Diallo Baba Garage is located in the Diourbel region in central Senegal, 120 km east of Dakar and in...
