African beauty queens start arriving Sunday
By Nyasa Times
Published: March 24, 2011
The six African beauty queens, who were reported to visit Malawi this month are expected to start jetting-in on Sunday, the first being Miss Zambia.
Confirming this to Nyasa Times, their host, the reigning Miss Malawi, Faith Chibale said “Miss Zambia will be joined by the other queens the following day through Kamuzu International Airport.”
Expected to arrive on Monday in the capital city, Lilongwe, are the beauty queens from Botswana, Namibia, Tanzania and Zimbabwe.
Host Miss malawi and Miss Zimbabwe (L)
According Chibale, the girls will have a tour starting Tuesday and they are scheduled to visit Malawi’s tourist destinations, among them Lake Malawi.
“We want them to appreciate the beauty of our country,” said Miss Malawi who met the six girls during her recent trip to Zimbabwe where she was invite to grace the crowning of that country’s beauty queen, Malaika Mushandu.
“They showed interest to visit Malawi – the warm heart of Africa – after going through photos from her album about the country’s tourism attractions,” she disclosed in an earlier interview with Nyasa Times.
Meanwhile, as indicated by Chibale, two parties have been organized in Blantyre and the capital city for the African queens to interact with people.
“I have been looking forward to this moment and am so excited to reunite with them after our meeting in Zimbabwe. I enjoyed sharing with them experiences about our countries and that time is here again,” said baby-faced Miss Malawi.—(Reporting by Kimpho Loka, Nyasa Times)
Labels: MALAWI, MISS ELECTIONS, MISS MALAWI
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Miss Malawi in USA, South Korea to fund raise for prisons
By Nyasa Times
Published: June 26, 2009
In an effort to perfect the appalling kitchen environment in the country’s prisons, Miss Malawi Joyce Mphande, is in United States of America (USA) on a fundraise mission.
The 20-year-old Lilongwe-based beauty queen left the country for USA last Friday for a two-month goodwill tour.
Mphande’s trip has been sponsored by Crops of Love Ministries, a religious organization working with the Malawi Prison Service to alleviate the plight of inmates in the country, according to the trip’s facilitator Maganizo Mazeze.
Mazeze told Nyasa Times in an interview, Mphande, who is also Ambassador for Malawi Prisons, will raise funds to purchase electrical or kerosene cookers for the prisons.
“It is believed that if all prisons stop using firewood for cooking, half a million kilograms of wood would be saved each year,” said Mazeze, who is communications consultant for Crops of Love Ministries.
While in USA, Mphande will also visit South Korea for two weeks where she will also fund raise before returning to the USA. Crops of Love Ministries’ partners in USA and South Korea are hosting her.
Mazeze said Mphande is expected to raise about US$50000 (K7 million) which will help all prisons in Malawi but in phases.
“Spiritual life has huge bearing in lasting behavioural change, more critical for those who have been in conflict with the law. And this project is an environmental one. Saving the forests for future generations is the key focus in this endevour,” said Mazeze in an email response to a questionnaire.
Among others, Miss will make awareness speeches to various gatherings including churches about Climate Change, meet influential leaders in several cities in America and will be a guest at an event to mark 45 years of Malawi’s Independence at the Malawi Embassy In the USA.
“She is also attending a number of Breakfast Fundraising events and dinner dance activities before returning in mid August,” said Mazeze, a trained broadcast journalist.
Labels: JOYCE MPHANDE, MISS MALAWI
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