Edith is a visiting consultant and she first came in the public limelight as Malawi Broadcasting Corporation’s (MBC) prolific investigative reporter at the dawn of democracy in Malawi in the early 1990s.

At the beginning of her career she worked with the Malawi News Agency (MANA) in 1989 before joining MBC’s News and Current Affairs Department in 1990. In 2000 she joined the Development Broadcasting Unit (DBU) as a radio listening club facilitator. During her three-year stay at the DBU she became a development journalist and was responsible for facilitating a network of radio listening clubs through community mobilization and training of rural communities in the Southern region of Malawi. She was also responsible for linking communities with service providers using radio as tool for development.

Her role in MCF is to provide support in communication related initiatives. Currently she holds a diploma in Development Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication acquired in 1999.She is currently studying for a BA in Journalism at the University of Malawi. She has also attended various courses such as Training of Trainers (TOT); Development Journalism; Fundraising; Public relations; radio production and gender.

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