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Creating New Beginnings for Malawians, Alumna Melissa Kushner’s Nonprofit Aims to Empower
Malawi, a small, southeast African country, is known as the “warm heart” of the continent, nicknamed for the friendly disposition of its people. But the country—nestled between some better-known neighbors, Tanzania, Mozambique, and Zambia—faces real and pressing challenges, including an HIV/AIDS crisis, rampant poverty, food insecurity, a cycle of devastating natural disasters, and widespread malaria.
NYU Wagner alumna Melissa Kushner (MPA-PNP 2006) runs a nonprofit organization, Yamba Malawi (previously known as goods for good), that enables local Malawians to break the cycle of poverty.