Titukulane Project to empower persons with albinism
With this, EU has launched the Titukulane (social-economic empowerment) project on 16th November 2025. Titukulane Project was designed to intervene in the economic sector, particularly to give opportunities to PWA to gain skills and build capacities to earn a living and improve their overall socio-economic status. The project will amongst other areas offer training opportunities to PWA in technical and vocational centres and at the same time, work to create business opportunities for particularly vulnerable women and youths.
The project will also work around defending health rights. This includes screening and awareness raising on skin cancer, to which persons with albinism are particularity prone, due to their lack of melanin and wide unavailability of sun-screen in the country.
With an EU contribution of EUR 600,000, the project is funded under the NDICI Human Rights and Democracy thematic budget (2023/2024). It will be implemented over 36 months in 15 districts of; Blantyre, Balaka, Chiradzulu, Chikwawa, Dedza, Dowa, Lilongwe, Mulanje, Machinga, Mangochi, Ntcheu, Phalombe, Salima, Thyolo and Zomba. It is expected that 2,440 Persons with Albinism (PWA) will directly benefit from the project.
The European Union strongly believes that there is nothing that separates a person from her or his ability to contribute to her or his Nation.
Human rights and protection of the most vulnerable is at the core of our functions. EU stands by the affirmation that human rights are equal to development. Without respect of human rights, Malawi cannot meet any of its development targets. Every man and women, boy and girl, person with a disability or any condition such as albinism is critical to the functioning of this nation.
