{"id":35648,"date":"2016-11-16T11:57:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=35648"},"modified":"2016-11-16T11:57:53","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T09:57:53","slug":"heifer-boss-visits-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/heifer-boss-visits-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Heifer boss visits Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heifer International President and Chief Executive Officer, Pierre Ferrari, was in the country to appreciate some of the projects the organisation is implementing in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The tour included a visit to Lilongwe where Heifer is running a farming project in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Ferrari engaged some selected farmers in Chileka Extension Planning Area (EPA) before handing over Milk Chilling Centre to Mapuyu Milk Bulking Group.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after handing over Mapuyu Milk Chilling Centre, Ferrari said he was impressed with the projects being implemented in the country and how they are transforming people\u2019s lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am really impressed with the hardworking spirit of Malawians. In the areas I visited, the farmers were sharing many success stories of the projects,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Chileka EPA Agriculture Extension Development Coordinator, Webster Jassi, hailed Heifer International for implementing the projects in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Heifer International Malawi in partnership with Farmers Union of Malawi (Fum) and Civil Society Agriculture Network (Cisanet) is implementing the Department for International Development (DFID) supported Central Diary Scale-up Project in Dowa, Lilongwe and Mchinji district.<\/p>\n<p>The project is expected to directly benefit 5,000 households.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heifer International President and Chief Executive Officer, Pierre Ferrari, was in the country to appreciate some of the projects the organisation is implementing in the country. The tour included a visit to Lilongwe where Heifer is running a farming project in the district. Ferrari engaged some selected farmers in Chileka Extension Planning Area (EPA) before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35653,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35648\/revisions\/35653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}