Dedza District

The western part of the district is on the Central African Plateau at an altitude of 1 200 to 1,600 m. Higher mountain ranges separate this from land alongside Lake Malawi in the Rift Valley at 500 m. The landscape is a mixture of grassland with granite outcrops, natural woodland and commercial pine plantations on the mountains and some bamboo forest nearer the lake.

The main town is Dedza Township located on the M1 road 85 km south of Lilongwe.

The town has banks, post office, petrol stations, accommodation and a range of shops.

There are smaller market towns with a post office, police station, shops and market—Lobi, Linthipe, Mayani, Mtakataka.

Apart from a commercial rice growing project at the side of Lake Malawi, agriculture is family based smallholdings.

The Partnership supports education, health, agriculture, tourism development and public sector organisations through volunteer workers, supply of computers and other materials and small scale funding.