Author: Mzuzu E-Hub
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Mzuzu E-Hub welcomes new Business Development Manager: Tommy Banks
Tommy Banks is a young growing project management and business development specialist with over 3 years’ profession work experience, focusing on women and youths. Mr. Banks’ experience is cross-cutting across numerous value chains, and where several been agro- based SMSEs, engaged in capacity development through training, coaching, and mentorship as well as by offering technical…
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“Unlocking Potential Together: Empowering Change through Resource Mobilization!” Meet our Resource Mobilization Manager: Vincent Mbisa
In our drive to sustain ourselves as an organization, we opened a new role for Resource Mobilization Manager. Recently, the organization recruited a suitable candidate for the role. We sit down with Vincent Mbisa to understand his role, passion and expertise in this role: Mzuzu E-Hub: What is your background in the Resource Mobilization Journey?…
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Lenovo Awards Mzuzu E-hub with Grant to Upskill Malawi’s Workforce
Lenovo Foundation today announced the grantees of its annual grant round. Over the past two years, Lenovo has invested more than US$2 million in charitable organizations around the world focused on equipping today’s workforce with the skills needed to transform their career, lives, and communities. Read more about the news at: https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/lenovo-foundation-announces-grantees-delivering-transformational-impact-through-skilling/
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Supporting youth-led ideas in dealing with unemployment
Madalitso Makombola, 27 has always had keen interest with emerging technological advancements across the world. His interest in technology comes from the belief that technology has the potential to solve various challenges in the world. His interest in technology saw him pursue studies in Information and Communications Technology at Mzuzu Technical College, where he graduated…
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Reviving shattered dreams
All hope for a brighter future was lost for 29-year-old Elvis Luhanga from Mwakifwamba Village in the area of Traditional Authority Kyungu in Karonga district following his failure to further his studies. Just like many other young people, while growing up, Luhanga had dreams. Dreams of acquiring higher education in Information and Communication Technology, as…
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Bridging digital gaps for Malawi’s youths
Up until November last year, 30-year-old Ruth Kazembe, a Development Facilitator at Salvation Army in Karonga district was not conversant with several computer programs, a gap that was making her work somehow difficult, in this age of technology. Back then, Kazembe of Malindi Village in the area Traditional Authority Mpama in Chiradzulu district could not…
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Broadening digital skills for Malawian youths
For years, Matthews Kajani from Zolozolo Township in Mzuzu City was spending a lot of time and resources in collecting and analyzing research data due to limited digital skills. In those days, Kajani a Bachelor’s degree holder in Social Sciences from Livingstonia University, who usually works on part time basis with different organizations in monitoring…
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Empowering young women through digital skills
Despite possessing a Certificate in Information and Communication Technology, 25-year-old Trusca Nkhoma, lacked some relevant digital talents to keep pace with recent technology advancements. As a result, Nkhoma, originally from Lilongwe but based in Karonga where she works with Gracious Investment, was failing to meet the needs of some customers. To bridge the gap, she…
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Turning ideas into reality
Anthony Munthali was getting frustrated with the hustles he was enduring to find suitable customers each time he had products he no longer needed and wanted to make money out of it. While he could at times use existing social media business groups on WhatsApp and Facebook such as Let’s Do Business Malawi, he was…
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Meeting the unmet need for digital skills
Before attending a digital skills training last year, Allan Khunga aged 23 of Simbakalata Village in the area of Traditional Authority Mwaulambya in Chitipa District did not have any knowledge of computer usage. While he could identify a computer if put in front of him, asking him to point at what some people would consider…