Green Malata provides a balanced curriculum and vocational skills training programme which facilitates the employability and life skills development of underprivileged older children and young adults in southern Malawi.
In Malawi, children who finish secondary school enter a job market where only 10% of graduates find formal employment. The Children's Fund of Malawi's primary aim is to provide these children and young adults with the tangible financial, vocational, life- and entrepreneurial skills they need to start a business and become self-reliant, through skills training for self-employment in the formal sector.
Working with young people - through skills training, entrepreneurial training, and life skills training - is key to helping our students to be job creators.
The balance of social (life skills) and financial (vocational) training and projects is at the core of Green Malata’s method: combining economic education and social education to achieve permanent and sustainable empowerment. To date, we have trained more than 920 young people.
Courses
At Green Malata children can enrol in a range of courses which last between 6-12 months. These include:
Agriculture & Animal Husbandry
Welding and Fabrication
Carpentry
Tailoring
Organic Briquette making
Information Technology
Baking
Hospitality Management
Renewable Energy (wind, solar, biogas)
Brick Making
At Green Malata, all our courses are coupled with income generating activities. This not only introduces our students to practical money making ideas, which they can set up themselves once they graduate, but it also makes Green Malata as financially self reliant as possible. 100% of the funds raised by our income-generated projects go towards this goal, and are reinvested into Green Malata.
Our core philosophies
1. Understanding the basic rights and responsibilities that enable individuals to develop themselves
and their communities.
2. Impart financial knowledge and skills that enable our students to make the best use of resources.
3. A commitment to strive for a sustainable world through their lifestyles and by conducting social and financial enterprise projects aimed towards improving their communities.