Complementary Basic Education

Learn Without Fear

Child Labour Mitigation in Tyolo, Mulanje and Phalombe Districts

Child Labour Mitigation in Mangochi District

Building Community Competence in the Fight Against HIV and AIDS in Bangwe

 

Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities - Bangwe

Child Labour Mitigation in Mulanje

Providing I.T. training to rural schools

Youth in Malawi are highly impacted by poverty. While poverty is a product of many factors, it is important to highlight that Malawi Is a country with few established economic sectors. This puts many young people in the situation where they find it difficult to improve their living conditions.

The absence of formal employment is not the only contribution towards people’s poverty. There is also no clear government system that provides the much needed boost enabling people to establish themselves in some form of business. Society needs to look at alternative ways of generating income and sustaining livelihoods.

AYISE’s Livelihood Security Programme not only targets the youth but also the poorest of the poor households. This is because poverty of households, which is poverty of parents, translates into the poverty of the children living in that home.

Our current programmes have provided livelihood opportunities to women-headed households where the women are custodians of orphans, child-headed households, poor men and poor youth. The livelihood opportunities have included:

1. provision of goats and pigs for rearing (a set of siblings are given back to the programme)
2. provision of farming inputs such as fertilisers and maize seeds (with some of the profit, inputs are returned to the programme)
3. vocational skills training covering welding, carpentry, tailoring and tinsmiths and provision of tool kits to groups of young people
4. provision of micro-credit with non-commercial interest rates to some poor households
5. Youth Agricultural Clubs
6. Vocational Skills Training Centre