Keeping Malawian Girls in School with Alice Kanyama

In this episode of Mile Higher Ed, Sarah and Caitlyn interview Ph.D. student Alice Kanyama about her recent work in Malawi, where she provided menstruation products to girls and young women through a grant from DU’s Center for Community Engagement to Advance Scholarship and Learning. We talk about the educational landscape in Malawi, how reusable sanitary pads improve education outcomes, and why secondary schooling is a critical foundation for university access.

 

Here are links to some of the things we talked about:

 

Seeds of Promise, a non-profit organization committed to supporting Malawian youth.

Seeds of Promise’s Facebook post with photos from the day the pads were distributed.

Alice’s extended interview with 21st Century Generation, a broadcast from Zodiak Malawi.

 

About our guest: Alice Kanyama is a Higher Education PhD Student at University of Denver expected to graduate in 2027. She has 17 years of work experience in Higher Education Management gained in Malawi. She also has over ten years of experience as an instructor and lecturer in the Mass Communication Department at Africa Bible College, Malawi.  She has been a Board Member for Seeds of Promise Ministry since 2017.

 

 

Mile Higher Ed is a production of the Higher Education Department at the Morgridge College of Education at the University of Denver.