Features When unemployment levels are high, talents play a role in sourcing income. This man makes a living from painting and selling world figures in Malawi's capital Lilongwe. A woman prepares food for her malnourished child outside government hospital in southern Malawi. Sugarcane sales assistant? Maybe. Malawians have a sweet tooth. A school dropout selling nuts. Earning a living the tough way. When Malawi intriduced a free primary school education, the enrolment increased significantly. But years later the number dwindled. Poverty and other socio-economic hiccups have ccaused the current school dropout in Malawi. The aged get a share of the ration from the World Food Programme-WFP in a rural area of southern Malawi.