The fields of Wisikoti, Ntchisi district in central Malawi, 2002

Digital photograph by Mark Ballantyne, Royal Logistic Corps. One of 465 images taken from two CDs of multimedia, 2002.

In 2002, Officer Training Corps volunteers from Tayforth University spent a total of two months working alongside a European Union-funded project in the village of Wisikoti, in central Malawi, as part of Exercise NORTHERN HUSKY. With a majority of Malawi's population living in rural villages, the majority of people are subsistence farmers, depending solely on their own crops for feeding themselves and their families. The project aimed to increase the maize production levels of farms to help villages to survive drought and crop failure and to generate income from the sale of any surplus maize.

The University Officer Training Corps offers students the opportunity to see and experience life in the Army but the scheme does not commit a student to joining the Army after graduation.