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For the past year, I have worked as Project Lead on the Digital Malawi – Digital Skills for All project as operationalised by the Ntha Foundation on behalf of the Malawi Government through the Public Private Partnership Commission. As I walk away, I reflect on the highlights of the journey that has been.

After a year and two months of leading the Ntha Foundation and Bien Corporation Africa (my two companies) fulltime, I have to walk away. I walk away in quest for further personal and professional development, and I share here what is next for me, and my whys.

I was driving to see my parents last week. I was speeding (relatively), trying to get home before the sun went down. I had a flat tyre, and ended up getting home at close to midnight. So here is a story about sports cars, speed, potholes, and flat tyres. Or is it?

5 years ago, in early January of 2017, I moved to Lilongwe. I had just completed my undergraduate studies, and I told my parents I was moving to a city 220kms away. I am living my last days in a city I have for half a decade loved to call home. I am sitting at one of my favorite restaurants, writing this, for mostly me, and maybe you too.

In an effort to empower young women and girls gain access to digital education and upskill their careers, Digi Savvy Africa and the Fiftfh Alley collaborated to conduct trainings and workshops from the 23r of March to the 25th of March 2022, in celebration of Women’s History Month, in an effort to curb the gender digital divide in Africa.

I think for likely the first time since its inception (those who know me might know I’ve struggled with this), I’m at peace with the Ntha Foundation being associated with my name.

Co-authored a write-up with UNCDF Digital on The status of women’s participation in innovation in Malawi, in honor of #WomensHistoryMonth.

In 2021, we were requested to pitch a concept promoting Malawian Tourism to the Department of Tourism. This was the concept – a concept which took years to create – from travelling, filming, and editing. A concept I deeply hope can inspire you to visit and explore Malawi.

It’s only the end of the first quarter of the year, and I am feeling fairly burnt out. I have gotten used to the cycles now, and know when to pause when I start feeling everything getting too heavy.

In honour of International Women’s Day, 2022, the EU Ambassador to Malawi, H.E. Runne Skinnebach invited 16 of Malawi’s power women to meet and network with the EU’s delegation to Malawi, and I was honored to be recognised among amazing and inspiring women.