Stichting Oneheartmalawi

2 weeks 5 days ago

Graduation ceremony 19-6-2026 🇲🇼

Congratulations tailoring & fashion design, welding & fabrication and ICT students of the year 2026! We are incredibly proud of the journey you have all been on and all that you have achieved.

As OneHeartMalawi's school president Kondwani Gamah beautifully said in his speech:
“6 months ago we walked into OneHeartMalawi with big dreams and small data bundles. Today, ICT students, tailoring & fashion design students, and welding & fabrication students are leaving with skills, a certificate and a family we didn't expect.

Thank you to our instructors, you thought us codes, stitches and welds, but also patience when our projects crashed, seams broke or sparks flew wrong.

Thank you to our parents, your sacrifices, prayers, and all the support you gave us. Texts carried us through late nights in the lab, workshop, and studio.

Thank you to my classmates, we shared notes, threads, welding rods, stress, and the belief that we will make it.

The real lessons were not just in textbooks or training manuals. It was perseverance when the code wouldn´t run, empathy when a design didn´t fit and teamwork when the weld needed two hands.

As we step into what is next, let´s carry that One Heart spirit. Success isn´t just a certificate. It is the lives we build, the clothes we create, and the connections we power.

Graduates of OneHeartMalawi, this is not a goodbye, it is our beginning.”

We want to give a special thank you to our donors who helped with scholarships so that also the most vulnerable students were able to graduate, which made a total of 46 graduates! 🎊

What is in the graduation video made by the ICT students?

👉🏾 Students dressed up in graduation gowns made by the tailoring & fashion design students;
👉🏾 Students dancing their way to the stage encouraged by their family;
👉🏾 The national anthem of Malawi on the violin by Cool Classical Strings;
👉🏾 Speeches by the school president and guest of honour;
👉🏾 Students receiving their graduation certificate;
👉🏾 Fashion show by tailoring & fashion design students of their self-made dresses;
👉🏾 Celebration at #ThandiweLodge

**Watch it to get an impression of the special graduation ceremony and the graduates with a smile on their faces. 💚

Stichting Oneheartmalawi

1 month 2 days ago

Parents' day at OneHeartMalawi 🇲🇼

In the OneHeartMalawi calendar of events a parents’ day is included for each student group where the students’ parents are invited to visit the project land. For us, it is extremely important to involve the parents in where their children go every day and what they learn and achieve. Last parents’ day was in the week of the OneHeartMalawi challenge, so it gave the students the opportunity to show their self-made unique products. The parents were very very impressed with what the students were able to make in such a short time in the field of tailoring & fashion design, welding & fabrication and ICT.

Aaron explained more about the background of OneHeartMalawi, the offered trainings, he introduced the local team and shared more about our future project plans. Involvement from the parents is crucial for the students to have a better future. They need support from their parents, both mentally and financially, to succeed.

In Malawi people are very talented and the students were not shy at all to be in the spotlight. Speeches, comedy and poems were delivered with full energy and confidence. In the plays there was a deeper message to involve parents more and think about the long-term plan and perspective of their kids instead of the short term. For the parents there was room to ask questions, to give advice and they appreciated the establishment of the OneHeartMalawi vocational training centre since it is filling a gap in the Malawian education system. Finally, the parents were given a tour of the project land.

It gives a lot of energy to receive the enthusiasm from the parents and to involve the community more and more, to see the future of the youth as a shared responsibility and to make the project a success together! 💚

Watch this video to get an idea of this beautiful day made by the ICT class:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JL0JWZbJOg

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