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TWR Malawi, which brings the good news of Jesus to every part of Malawi with a clear FM signal, received a prestigious honour on Tuesday, February 25, from a U.S.-based organization.
Victor Kaonga receiving the reward on behalf of TWR Malawi
The National Religious Broadcasters presented its International Media Award to TWR Malawi during its annual conference. The event, which this year is in the Dallas, Texas, area, drew more than 5 000 Christian media representatives from the United States and worldwide.
Victor Kaonga, TWR international director for East and Southern Africa, accepted the award on behalf of TWR Malawi.
“It’s a great honour for … the listeners to TWR Malawi, to the staff and volunteers as well as the leadership, getting this recognition for the work, which is actually the product of many years,” Kaonga said later. He was director of TWR Malawi up to 2022.
TWR Malawi’s staff is currently led by Janet Mtali, who was part of the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders, sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
The station was awarded a broadcasting license and set up a production studio in 1986. Its Chewa-language programmes were aired to Malawi via shortwave from TWR’s Manzini transmitting station in Swaziland (now Eswatini). But by 1995, Malawian believers were praying fervently that TWR Malawi would one day have an FM signal, Kaonga said.
TWR Malawi was one of the first nongovernmental media organizations to obtain an FM broadcasting license, in 2000, originally with a single transmitter. Listener donations entirely paid for the 12th and 13th transmitters.
It now broadcasts at least 36 individual programs in as many as six languages.
“Seeing this ministry grow from one frequency to 13 transmitting frequencies … actually covering the entire country [of] 21 million people, it’s a breakthrough,” Kaonga said.
This was the second year a TWR partner received the International Media Award. In 2024, it went to RTM (Radio Trans Mundial) Brazil.
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Date published: 06/03/2025
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