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Thanzi265 teaches Malawian children to grow their own food and gives their mothers the financial tools to keep them fed for good.
Registered NGO in Malawi (TRN-5YSR2Z) · Funded by The Pollination Project & Kanthari Foundation Switzerland · Partnered with Moving Windmills
- Inequality – unequal access to opportunities.
- Equality – evenly distributed tools and assistance.
- Equity – custom tools that identify and address inequality.
- Justice – fixing the system in offer equal access to both tools and opportunities.
About Us
Thanzi265 started with one boy's empty stomach.
Founder Nelson Kamoyo grew up in a rural Malawian village where hunger was simply part of the day. He went to school without breakfast, sat through lessons he couldn’t concentrate on, and watched classmates open lunch boxes he didn’t have. He never forgot it. In 2024, he turned that memory into Thanzi265, a community-based organization that teaches children to grow nutritious food and equips their mothers with the financial skills to keep their households fed, even after a harvest fails or a crisis hits. We’re young, but we’re not small in ambition: every program we run is built so a family can eventually run it without us
Vision
A Malawi where no child goes hungry — and where every generation passes down the knowledge to keep it that way.
Mission
We invest in food literacy and regenerative agriculture as practical tools against poverty and malnutrition, building toward communities that can sustain themselves.
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People Reached
200
Direct Beneficiaries
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Projects Completed
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Active Projects
$1.50
Feeds 1 child a nutritious meal for a day
Our Areas of Focus
Food Literacy For Children
Children learn what their bodies need, where food comes from, and how to grow it, turning a lesson into a lifelong habit instead of a one-time meal
Regenerative Agriculture & Community Engagement
We go beyond feeding kids today. Communities learn sustainable growing methods so they can keep producing food long after our team has moved to the next village.
Village Savings & Loans Associations (VSLAs)
Mothers get seed capital and a savings group, plus structured training in financial literacy, business skills, leadership, regenerative farming, and nutrition. Many are recording income and expenses and calculating their own savings for the first time in their lives.
How we Work
Thanzi265 works from two directions at once. Children learn to grow and cook nutritious food on a model farm and in their own kitchen gardens. At the same time, their mothers build financial skills through table-banking groups and small business training. When a child brings new food knowledge home and a mother brings home a steadier income, the whole household becomes more resilient and less dependent on outside help. It's not charity that ends when the funding does. It's a skill set families keep for life Beyond the savings and loans, mothers take part in structured training covering financial literacy, business skills, leadership, regenerative farming, and nutrition. They learn to record income and expenses, plan weekly and monthly budgets, understand profit and loss, and set financial goals — for many, the first time they've ever written down their finances or calculated their own savings. Working as a savings group builds confidence, not just in business decisions but in supporting one another.
Nourishing Minds & EmpowerHer
Through the Nourishing Minds project, which has been funded by the Kanthari Foundation Switzerland, We are making some significant progress in promoting environmental sustainability and food literacy as part of our inspiring journey to create a sustainable future for every child in Malawi.
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News and Updates
EmpowerHer Project
Mothers carry most of the responsibility for feeding their families, yet many of them have very limited resources. When a crisis hits (a failed harvest, an illness, a school expense) they have nowhere to turn. This makes it difficult to provide nutritious food for their children or to build any kind of stability. The EmpowerHer Malawi program offers a practical and sustainable way to change this. It focuses on the 30 mothers of the Nourishing Minds children and gives them the tools to take control of their finances, improve family nutrition, and support their children’s education. The aim is simple: to give women access to capital, confidence, and financial skills so they can move away from the cycle of poverty, reduce their dependence on their husbands, and build small income-generating activities of their own.
When kids are exposed to the wisdom of nature, sustainability flourishes.
The Bigger Picture – The Thanzi265 model helps children prove that solving water poverty starts with trusting in children’s inventiveness.Our participants just don’t learn; they lead. When an 8-year-old teaches her village to save water, that’s true resilience.” With every bottle repurposed and seed sown, Malawi’s youngest farmers are writing a new future: one where water is life’s first ingredient, not its last hope.We are more than just farmers at Thanzi265, cultivating resilience, knowledge, and hope. When kids are exposed to the wisdom of nature, sustainability flourishes.
