"One Hand, One Life"

Assiting the vulnerable in rural areas

The project uses social media platforms as a tool for resources mobilization and it aims at assisting different vulnerable people in the rural areas. It targets the orphans, elderly as well as the destitute by providing them with basic needs of life so as to improve their lives and wellbeing. The project, in conjunction with the ‘Education for All” Project is also assisting primary and secondary school pupils who fail to pay school fees for themselves and other basic school materials.

Adult Literacy

And Education for Women

This is a project that aims at training women and young girls with basic reading and writing, mathematical and entrepreneurship skills. This project stands as one of the Ambassadors Charity Trust’s tools of women empowerment and allowing them to fully participate in socio-economic development of the country. The project is being run in partnership with the Malawi Human Rights Commission, as the project also integrates human rights issues.

Education

For all

Considering the fact that education is the key to national development, the Ambassadors Charity Trust had set up the “Education for All” Project. This project focuses on assisting needy students by offering tertiary students’ affordable loans, which after their studies they are to pay back through giving back their services or cash to the sponsoring companies through the ACT as a facilitator. The Ambassadors Charity Trust under the “One Hand, One Life-Project” also mobilizes school materials including bursaries from the good willing people and takes them to the needy secondary school students in the rural areas. It is important to note that the “Education for All” project is being run in partnership with the Ministry of Education and other local development partners/Stakeholders. The “Education for All” project has a unique and critical approach dubbed ‘Sponsor-Beneficiary Webzone’ which comprises a through scrutinizing or screening process of the students to assess their eligibility.

Environmental Justice for Dzalanyama Forest

(Titeteze nkhalango ya dzalanyama)

The project is being carried out in T/A Masumbankhunda where Dzalanyama Forest is, and it aims at empowering the community more especially the youths and women with alternative income generating activities so that they can aswell be able to channel their efforts into preserving and conserving the Dzalanyama Forest reserve which is at risk of depletion if not kept in check. Dzalanyama is one of the largest forest reserves in the country and also the source of Malingunde dam which is the main source of water to the residence of Lilongwe, the capital city of Malawi. Among other initiatives under this project, the Ambassadors Charity Trust is working on setting up a community radio in this area which shall focuses its messages on the preservation of the Dzalanyama Forest and the social-economic empowerment of the people living in the area.

Nyasi Mayazi Movement

COMMITMENT TO ENSURE PROPER WASTE MANAGEMENT IN MALAWI

Nyasi Mayazi Movement (NMM) is a national network of the youths on proper waste management in Malawi’s cities and municipalities. The movement intends to be recycling or/and turning the wastes into other useful products. The Movement is comprised of different youth-led organizations across the country. The country’s cities, municipalities and towns are characterized by poor waste management. The city and town councils in the country do not have the capacity to manage waste due to inadequate financial and human resource. The Nyasi Mayazi Movement started in Lilongwe soon after the Lilongwe City Summit which took place on 24 May, 2023. Ambassadors Charity Trust (ACT) signed a commitment form to ensure proper waste management in the city. ACT saw the need to work with other youth-led organizations and also to make this movement national wide so as to have a large impact. Nyasi Mayazi Movement therefore aims to clean all public spaces and also disseminate information (awareness and mindset

Thick and Thin Lines of MW2063

(Zidutswa za masomphenya a Malawi)

Malawi as a country has different development agendas among which is the Malawi Vision 2063. The Thick and Thin Lines of MW2063, is a social media program (Podcast) which aims at revealing development initiatives and challenges faced by the youths in their pursuit to help fulfilling Malawi 2063 Vision. The program strives on linking the innovative and hardworking youths with different stakeholders to gain a conducive platform for development. The program also aims at keeping in check some policy issues and other deliberate moves by those in authority that aim at frustrating the country and the youth’s initiatives in specific, from achieving the national social economic development, and hence the MW2063.