Dzimwe Community Radio is nonprofit making institution currently located behind the Community Resource Centre Hall to the South East of Monkey Bay Airstrip. The radio was established in 1998 initially funded by UNITED NATION EDUCATION SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURE ORGANISATION (UNESCO) to act as a platform where people can discuss issues and find lasting solutions that concern them to achieve sustainable development.
The radio currently covers a radius of 150 kilometers and is entirely heard in Mangochi, Ntcheu,Dedza, Salima and parts of Machinga, Balaka, Nkhotakota, Nchisi and Dowa Districts on 107.8 FM frequency, throughout the entire mentioned Districts and we also on online platform of A2Z MALAWI FM RADIO where by you can catch us all over the world .
The Radios’ programming is inclined to address the needs of the marginalized community (youths, women smallholder farmers and Fishermen) and therefore speaks on behalf of the voiceless (the rural poor, the elderly, orphans, widowed, HIV and AIDS the affected and infected, the youth, children and women). Our main local used languages are Chiyao and Chichewa and Chiyao happens to be the main language spoken by Yao who are majority population in Mangochi, Machinga and some parts of Balaka district and Chichewa language is also spoken by another large number of people within the said districts and other surrounding districts.
Dzimwe radio currently transmits to a total population of over 4,509,000 people in the mentioned Districts. Mangochi District alone has over 1,300,000 people (NSO 2012 projections). The Radio operates as a trust, registered as a media institution by the Malawi Communication Regulatory Authority (MACRA).
The Board of Trustees is Patronized by Senior Traditional Authority Nankumba and owned by the Community. The Board also provides strategic direction of the day to day operations that are implemented by a Management Team.