{"id":1657,"date":"2015-05-19T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/new\/us\/news\/malawi-farmer-receives-training-scholarship\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:21:21","slug":"malawi-farmer-receives-training-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/us\/malawi-farmer-receives-training-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi farmer’s training scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"
A community-based farm adviser in Malawi is amongst a group of small-scale African farmers to travel recently on a scholarship to attend one of the UK’s leading agricultural training colleges.<\/p>\n
Bahkita\u00a0Mkwingwiri from Balaka District in Malawi was amongst the recipients of a travel bursary to attend a ten-week training course at Shuttleworth Agricultural College in the UK.<\/p>\n
Her trip is a part of a training initiative supported by Marshal Papworth Trust, which provides skills training in the UK to African extension and community-based farm trainers.<\/p>\n