Malawi

 

Anderson Master Kamwendo has been appointed executive director of ECLOF Malawi. In 2003, Anderson received an M.A. in sustainable international development from Brandeis University in Massachusetts, USA. Long before this period of study, he began his working life as an assistant crops instructor, and later was appointed a lecturer in horticulture, at the Chipembi Farm College, Zambia, where he went on to become the acting principal. Anderson returned to Malawi to take up a post with the Church of Central Africa in its relief and development department within the church's Blantyre synod. During his 14 years with this department, Anderson helped to establish the Naming’azi Livelihood Security Programme, which he then headed as programme manager. He was later promoted to become the department's development officer, and, finally, executive director.

The new ECLOF Malawi director has been on study tours, and has travelled as a missionary to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya, Zambia and Canada. He has served on the boards of a number of non-governmental organizations. Anderson is married to Evelyn, who comes from Zambia, and they have four daughters and two sons, aged from 13 to 23.