OneHeartMalawi
The OneHeartMalawi foundation is committed to empower Malawian people in their growth to self-reliance. You can support this cause by donating here. Would you like to know more about the projects, the country or the founders? Then continue reading below. We guarantee that 100% of your contribution will be spent on the projects. Transaction costs and costs for maintaining the foundation and website are paid by the founders themselves. The founders have close ties with people on site in Malawi and together they ensure that your contribution actually reaches the people who need it.
Stichting OneHeartMalawi heeft een trainingscentrum opgezet voor jongvolwassenen in Malawi – een van de armste landen ter wereld. Wij zamelen in Nederland nu materialen in om per zeecontainer te verschepen naar Malawi. Help ons jongvolwassenen in Malawi te ondersteunen en draag bij met een donatie van spullen op deze lijst door contact op te nemen met Jan in Groningen via jan.nieuwenweg@oneheartmalawi.com of Ans in Brabant via ans.debie@oneheartmalawi.com. Je kunt ook financieel bijdragen aan het project middels een donatie. Dankjewel!
Stichting Oneheartmalawi
How they started as a group…
…and how they ended together as 18 individual, amazing and passionated welders and tailors.
Only 8 days until graduation for Bashil, Emily, Vilson, Talita, Raphael, Scholarstica, Felix Gellah, Felix Lashani, Violet, Vincent, Norah, Zalimba, Lydia, Joseph, Alinafe, Aubrey, Memory & Mike. A few quotes from them about their experiences at the OneHeartMalawi vocational training centre so far:
Felix Lashani: “OneHeartMalawi has been a home. I had a fantastic experience. I lived well with people. I learnt a lot of things, not just about classes.”
Memory: “I was just expecting a life of a school. Off we learn and then we go. But what we have experienced here is more than that. This place is home away from home.”
Aubrey: “I have had a good experience. I enjoyed every moment to a point that I would forget all that I went through because I felt free and like home.”
Felix Gellah: “I have had a good experience here. I have been a happy person all along. Everything to me was amazing. It has been a good team and also the management is very good.”
Bashil: “I have had the best experience of my life at this school and I feel like the days are moving faster towards the end. The people here are so good and the environment itself is good, the activities we have had. The activities here were amazing such that they gave me a happy life.”
Talita: “I never expected the career talk because for me that was the most important activity. I was so motivated by what they said because I felt that what they were saying was just an alignment to my goals.”
Vilson: “I have had a good experience so far. I have experienced happiness through many activities, like the Cape Maclear walk. I am able to engage with others in different activities because of what the management always encourage us to do. Like working together and I am also able to do a lot of things from what I have learnt.”
Memory: “I honestly have had a good experience here with no complains at all. I have learnt a couple of things apart from just learning the tailoring skill. For example, the leadership skills, patience and teamwork skills.”
Talita: “Tailoring and fashion design isn’t the only thing that I have learnt. This place has taught me love, happiness and also unity.”
Scholarstica: “I have learnt a lot of tailoring skills. I can manage to cut fabric on my own into different kinds of styles and how to use the machine properly. I have also experienced great leadership from the management. You always encourage us and you treat us like your own children.”
Memory: “I am completely proud that I am able to make a lot of designs. I make clothes for my kids. They can not wear torn clothes now because I am able to repair their clothes by myself.”
Emily: “Things are going on so well that we are open with our teachers. For instance, we have seen a new style that we haven't learnt and we would like to try it out, our teachers are always there to help us. I am so proud that my teachers are so welcoming. Whenever I have questions and do not understand, they help me and they make sure that I do it right.”
Bashil: “I have progressed so well in my studies such that I have so much confidence that I can manage to work somewhere and do a good job. I am so proud that I can make a lot of things without supervision. For example, I can make a whole window frame, door or even a gate.”
Do you want to read more about the OneHeartMalawi vocational training centre and the trainings? Click here: oneheartmalawi.com/vocational-training/
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Situation: Lack of opportunities after primary education.
Target group: Young adults from 18 to 29 years.
Approach: Establishing vocational training centre where young adults learn a trade.
Status: Collecting donations to keep the centre running and expand.
Read more about Vocational Training...
Situation: Dependence on rain for successful harvests.
Target group: Inhabitants of Monkey Bay.
Approach: Construction of a water pump powered by solar panels.
Status: Sustainable project completed and water pump still in use.
Read more about project Water...
Situation: Famine in 2016 due to crop failure.
Target group: Inhabitants of Monkey Bay.
Approach: Bringing maize to people without food.
Status: In total €1,468 was raised providing food for 30 families.
Read more about project Food...
