Bachelor of Arts (Media for Development) students at a constituent college of the university of Malawi, Chancellor College, on Monday November 14, 2016 visited Namasalima Health Centre in Domasi, Zomba as part of activities as they are preparing for their symposium on November 23,2016 at Malawi Sun Hotel in Blantyre.
According to the chairperson of the organising committee, Patrick Zgambo, the visit fall within the central objectives on which their course was founded on.
Said Zgambo: “as Media for development students, our primary aim is to holistically analyse all sectors of development through participatory research and communication with the rural poor before coming up with communication strategies that can address the same. Patients at health centre fit into this understanding of development and I am glad that we have leant that while we live in luxury and fame, there are other people who are dying in poverty and shame and they desperately need our help”
The function was organised with sponsorship from Candlex Malawi Limited who gave students, branded T shirts, K100,000 cash to help in other endeavors, body lotion and assorted soap to donate to the clinic.
Bachelor of Arts (Media for Development) is a degree program at Chancellor college and its second intake is completing studies in December, 2016. According to Associate Professor M. Magalasi, “graduates from this program are trained in ways in which Print media, Radio, Television, Film and Interpersonal Communication is used in communicating and advocating for issues in development. The methods in which these students are trained, take cognizant of ethical values in working with people of different levels in society”.
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