Malawi: Blind Retired Teacher's Pension Cancelled Due to Lost Government Records

Catherine Uteka is a formidable woman. She is a qualified teacher, a grassroots activist, a widow and a mother of one. She is also partially deaf, totally blind and living with HIV.

Life for Catherine, 43, a former primary and secondary school teacher, has not been all rosy. She was infected with HIV in the year 2000 and four years later she was heavily attacked by meningitis and eventually lost three senses: smell, sight and hearing.

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