The Mlambe Project

Anna Day

Chief Executive

London

Mission

We’re working towards making educational disadvantage history in Malawi and our long-term strategy and mission is to ensure every child in Malawi can be educated in a school with lighting, water and power, which is no mean feat considering that Malawi is the 19th poorest country in the world. We’re also working to join up the Malawi economy to the global economy through the creation of meaningful training, further and higher education opportunities that connect Malawian communities to jobs that enrich local economies and give direct employment, providing much needed diversification of income sources in Malawi. Our key objectives over the next six years are to: Create 10,000 jobs in new markets in Malawi, working through partnerships with the private sector, educational institutions, international NGOs, major donors and civil society to develop a robust pilot of entering Malawi into the global marketplace. We will do this by stimulating social enterprise and businesses, training businesses to help them grow and identifying mentorships that stimulate their business growth. Create 25,000 school, college and university places by 2025, enabling us to improve literacy levels and overall educational attainment in Malawi. We will do this by improving capacity of existing schools and building new ones through our schools building programme. We will also work to influence global partners to develop and build schools in Malawi and set up access to a wide pool of online learning resources. We will advocate the use, celebration and trust of sustainable building techniques across the construction industry for buildings of social purpose in Malawi to advance economic development and to use for schools building as a celebrated, economic and ecological building technique.

Category

Poverty Alleviation

Additional Information

We are a UK based charity that is largely volunteer led, and with a paid team in Malawi. We are on a mission to scale up our charity following a fantastic first few years. Joining our charity will make a real difference to the lives of children and adults living in the world's 19th poorest country- Malawi. We are a diverse team and accept volunteers from all walks of life, faiths and embrace individuality. We have a place for everyone that brings talent, skill and a can do attitude to the team!

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Jun 28, 2019

Social Media Volunteer

Description

We are looking for a social media volunteer to help us champion our fundraising appeal 'EmpowerEd' which aims to raise £2m by 2020 to help build 86 school blocks in the Balaka District in Malawi, which will give a classroom to well over 5000 children currently taught outdoors. The social media volunteer will be responsible for launching and developing a global social media fundraising campaign, working to secure funding using accelerator programmes, and generally raising awareness of our charity in the global eye. This would suit someone who loves Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, who has good skills in working independently and able to produce graphics on Canva. The person would also help us keen our website up-to-date.

Skills Required

  • Social Media Marketing

Posted on May 29, 2019

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Jun 30, 2019

Head of Marketing and Comms (4 hours per week) Voluntary

Description

Charity Overview Malawi is the most impoverished country in the world. We at The Mlambe Project believe that the best means of aiding the Malawian people in their struggle against poverty is through the provision of sustainable livelihoods and a proper education. We aim to achieve this through the use of innovative low cost and high impact methods. Our two primary areas of development are: - Construction and the promotion of earthbag building across Malawi - Education and the implementation of new educational technologies in a responsible and sustainable manner. The Mlambe Project was started in 2012 by a group of University of Manchester students and has grown rapidly since this point. Over the next year we are expanding as an organisation and hope to take on more people with fresh ideas to add our existing successes. Role Background As we have grown as a charity it has becomes increasingly important to share our charitable activity with our supporters. Along with our more personal communications with donors, partners and our supporters in general; we are now looking to more widespread methods of sharing our activity. Media makes what is a very difficult concept to portray, tangible, and it is vital to widening our support base. We have therefore devised this role as a means to keep up with our wider development and growth so that we can circulate regular updates on our charitable activity. This role is part of the charity’s Communications & Marketing team which consists of the Head of Content and Head of Video. You will report to the Chief Exec. Role Responsibilities Stakeholder communications and management Maintain communication with the charity’s Head of Content, Head of Video and trustees on a monthly basis. Keep track of progress with all comms channels and provide input and expertise on all these areas: Website. Social media. Newsletter. Marketing and PR Ensure the charity’s brand, core values and mission/vision are clear, simple and consistent across the whole team. Essential Requirements Able to commit 2 hours per week. Personable and a good communicator. Experience in marketing. Desired Requirements Experience working in the charity sector. In-country experience of Malawi. Active interest in the developing world and a thirst to create change.

Skills Required

  • Marketing
  • Strategic Marketing
  • Advertising
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Concept Development
  • Pr

Posted on May 28, 2019

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