Blessings Manda is a development practitioner. He graduated from the Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics in Malawi. He is passionate about impacting the lives of people in rural areas. Before he served as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer, he worked with the Mwanza district council as an Enumerator, and he has also worked with World Vision Malawi both in Mwanza and Salima as a Research Assistant, where he established poverty levels of targeted beneficiaries, identified and mapped children with disabilities in the area programs. He is more than zealous to see people in rural communities reach a point where accessing basic needs as entitled by every human being is not a problem. Along these lines, Blessings served as a CorpsAfrica Volunteer in Malawi in the seventh cohort applied for the exchange program, and got selected to be part of the first-ever cohort in South Africa as an Exchange Volunteer, he has also been chosen to be a part the YALI program online cohort number 22. All these strides he believes will make him a competent agent of change when it comes to changing the lives of people in communities across the world.