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MALAWI / CASH TRANSFERS
STORY: MALAWI / CASH TRANSFERS
TRT: 2.56
SOURCE: FAO
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: CHICHEWA/NATS
DATELINE: MAY 2013, MALAWI, MCHINJI DISTRICT
20 – 24 MAY 2013, MCHINJI DISTRICT.
1. Wide shot from above Mchinji area and mountains
2. Wide shot Mchinji road sign
3. Wide shot Social Cash Transfer Coordinator Jim Wotchi Pan Project beneficiaries listening to him
4. Med shot, Delia Demisoni, Project beneficiary, signing with her thumb print to receive the cash transfer
5. Close-up Delia’s hands receiving the cash Pan over Delia’s face
6. Wide shot from above project beneficiaries signing and receiving the cash
7. Med shot, Delia cooking inside her house at dawn
8. Wide shot, Delia sitting before her house and looking at her children Pan over Delia’s children eating their breakfast
9. Med shot, children eating their breakfast
10. Med shot, Delia preparing a rich meal before her house
11. Med shot, food ingredients for the meal
22 MAY 2013, MZINGO VILLAGE - MCHINJI DISTRICT
12. SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Delia Demisoni, project beneficiary:
“The project has really changed my life, before I had literally nothing, now things are better. Until now I didn’t have any good cloths and my children didn’t have any good cloths. As for food, well, that was a really big problem for me.”
13. Med shot, Delia’s children wearing their school uniforms and preparing to go to school
14. Wide shot, Delia’s children leaving home to go to school
15. Med shot, Delia’s children walking in the field on the way to school
16. Wide shot, Delia’s children walking in the field on the way to school in the foggy morning
17. Med shot, Delia’s children walking in the field on the way to school in the foggy morning
18. Med shot, farmers carrying maize to a cart
19. Med shot, old woman putting maize in a basket
20. Wide shot, farmer tips basket full of maize over a cart
21. Wide shot, Delia heading towards a woman selling fish in the village
22. Close up, seller wraps fish in a bag
23. Med shot, Delia paying the seller
24. Zoom out, Mchinji town and landscape
25. Pan right, from woman working in office to Jim Wotchi Social Cash Transfer coordinator, working at his computer
26. Pan right, from man riding bicycle on a country road to Farmers and a cart full of maize
24 MAY 2013, LILONGWE
27. SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Paul Kasinjiro, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare:
“The Social Cash Transfer program supports the ultra-poor and labor-constrained households to be able to engage in agriculture to produce for the growth and the well-being of the households.”
28. Med shot, behind women going to the fields and carrying agricultural tools
29. Wide shot, farmers digging up their field
30. Med shot, detail farmer using a hoe
31. Med shot, farmer using a hoe
32. Tracking shot, groundnuts field
33. Med shot, elderly woman giving indications to young workers she has hired to work her field
34. Med shot, elderly woman paying the workers
35. Wide shot, elderly woman paying the workers in front of her house
23 MAY, KANYINDULA SCHOOL MCHINJI DISTRICT
36. SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Michael Phiri, Principal:
“Poor parents are now able to send now their children to school rather than taking their children to fields.”
37. Wide shot, Delia stops at a small shop in her village
38. Med shot, the shop owner inside his shop Pan over Delia asking for something
39. Med shot, Delia’s hands paying for an household item
40. Wide shot, Delia at the local market grabs a salad
41. Med shot, Delia pays for tomatoes at the local market
42. Wide shot, Women working at a pile of maize
43. Med shot, children attending a class under a tree
44. Wide shot, Delia’s naked feet walking on the ground Pan over Delia walking away
Back in 2006 the Government of Malawi launched a Social Cash Transfer Program to assist the poorest of the poor. Currently, the program provides a monthly contribution of 14 dollars to more than 26,000 households.
The program had two clear objectives: to fight poverty and hunger, and to help families send their children to school. Delia Demisoni lost her husband to HIV/AIDS. She's also HIV positive. She has one child and is responsible for four others who lost their parents to the same disease.
SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Delia Demisoni, project beneficiary:
“The project has really changed my life, before I had literally nothing, now things are better. Until now I didn’t have any good cloths and my children didn’t have any good cloths. As for food, well, that was a really big problem for me.”
Thanks to the Cash Transfers, Delia can now afford school uniforms, books and pencils for all the children.
As well as helping families with everyday expenses, cash transfers also promote productivity at home and on the farm. If delivered regularly, cash transfers can play a key role in strategies to improve rural livelihoods and agricultural production, while stimulating economic and social development. And that’s the focus of the collaboration between the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the governments of Malawi and 6 other African countries. They are working together on a project known as PtoP, (From Protection to Production” Project).
SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Paul Kasinjiro, Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare:
“The Social Cash Transfer program supports the ultra-poor and labor-constrained households to be able to engage in agriculture to produce for the growth and the well-being of the households.”
Many households invest part of the money they receive in agricultural assets like tools, fertilizers, and pesticides. Another bonus is that beneficiary families can afford to hire relations or neighbors to work on their fields, instead of their own children.
SOUNDBITE (Chichewa) Michael Phiri, Principal:
“Poor parents are now able to send now their children to school rather than taking their children to fields.”
Studies show that the program helps the whole community, with 90 to 95 percent of all the money that is distributed being spent locally, because program beneficiaries can afford more and better goods and services from local businesses.
Social protections programmes when combined with other rural development interventions help create paths out of poverty for the poorest of the poor.
From 29 June to 1 July African and international leaders and other key stakeholders in the food security sector will meet at the African Union headquarters in Ethiopia, with a focus on renewing partnership for a unified approach to end hunger in Africa.
The meeting, which is organized by the African Union (AU), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and the NEPAD Agency with the support of Instituto Lula and the host country, the Government of Ethiopia, is expected to commit to a set of principles, policies and strategies to resolve the problem of hunger by 2025, which will feed into the national and regional Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Program (CAADP) Agriculture and Food Security Investment Plans.
Malawi is one of four ‘pilot countries’ selected as a focus for the meeting.
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