The 24 needy students, as identified by the University of Malawi and recommended to IPOR for support, will be getting K60, 000 monthly upkeep to ensure their welfare is not affected to disturb their learning status.

Speaking during an audience with the beneficiaries today, IPOR's director of Strategy and Management Professor Blessings Chinsinga urged the students to dream big to change their fortunes, emphasizing that while IPOR is rendering such support, their future is in their hands.

Before his sudden and untimely passing on April 17th, 2016, the late Edward Chiwayula was working as an enumerator on the Governance and Local Development Project, a collaborative venture between IPOR, the Program on Governance and Local Development at the University of Gothenburg and the Chr. Michelsen Institute.

As one way of keeping Edward's memory alive, the collaborative partners in the GLD project agreed to set up a trust in Edward's memory to be called the Edward Chiwayula Trust.

Currently, as an integral part of its corporate social responsibility, IPOR supports the Trust by allocating the funds it generates from its projects.

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