Lonnie Chijere Phiri is a Democratic Progressive Party Member of Parliament representing a constituency in Zomda in southern Malawi.
She was a member of the Malawi's Parliamentary Women Caucus and in 2019 she and Liana Chapota came to Scotland for a week to meet Scottish parliamentarians.
The caucus were concerned that low ambitions and child marriage was endemic in girls in Malawi's primary schools.
Caucus members, including Phiri, went to visit schools to encourage the girls to work hard and be ambitious.
[6] In the same month (August 2024), Phiri announced that had used the constituency development fund to build a new school.