IT Hub project - Ekwendeni 

Imagine trying to do your IT course at school without access to any computers?

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Imagine trying to set up your business but you never learned how to print a document or write a spreadsheet?

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These are the realities of life for the majority of Malawians. Compounding this is an unstable electricity supply and patchy access to the internet meaning its hard to learn the skills we take for granted.

 

In 2024 ZMCP teamed up with Tafika Youth Organisation to re-purpose part of a building in order to build an IT Skills Hub which could be used by the community, for low and no cost community courses, and which could also be used for free by the local schools and trades schools to teach their curriculum courses.

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By July 2025 the Hub had opened and we are thankful to our donors, Leggett Trust and RGA for providing the £17,000 needed to make this a reality. 

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The Hub has solar power, a battery array, 26 computers, leased from Turing Trust, all with a full return to base warranty and Starlink access to the internet. This space now has stable power and wifi and provides a learning and working space for the whole community.

 

Have a look at our video to see how the project was developed. 

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