{"id":15790,"date":"2026-06-20T12:46:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-honors-student-from-iita-malawi\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:29:54","slug":"dg-sanginga-honors-student-from-iita-malawi","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-honors-student-from-iita-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"DG Sanginga honors student from IITA Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"In April, DG\u00a0Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>\u00a0visited\u00a0IITA Malawi<\/a>, for the handover ceremony of the Aflatoxin laboratory as well as opening of the renovated offices of IITA Malawi. This visit birthed a great opportunity for a young and passionate research technician, Madalitso Mhango, who is also a fourth-year student of Journalism and Mass Communication at the Pentecostal Life University, Malawi.\n
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Mhango and DG Sanginga in a group photo with Mhango\u2019s hosts at Aflasafe and Communication Unit.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\nMhango works in the Aflasafe laboratory, IITA Malawi, to put herself through university education, due to her parents having challenges with paying her tuition. She said, \u201cMy father is a driver who earns so little, and my mother is a housewife. Both of them cannot afford my tuition. I started working with IITA so that I can pay my school fees.\u201d\n\nDG Sanginga chose Mhango because of her passion and invited her on a motivation trip to IITA Ibadan. She is the youngest among her colleagues in Malawi.\n\nHer two-week visit to IITA Ibadan comprised a week-long visit to the Aflasafe factory and a five-day training course on \u201cScience communication skills enhancement\u201d, organized by the IITA Communication Unit. As a student of communication, Mhango is passionate about reporting science news and hopes that she can begin to practice those things she has learnt in IITA. \u201cI have learnt a lot from IITA and the Communication Unit. I would like to thank DG Sanginga for inviting me here; I don\u2019t take this for granted.\u201d\n\nWhile presenting her with a Certificate of Training, DG Sanginga expressed his pleasure at Mhango\u2019s trip to Ibadan. He said, \u201cYou are not just a communicator, but you will also be a scientist.\u201d At the end, Mhango was grateful for the opportunity, and considered the trip and training a great boost to her education and career.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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