I recently got asked this in a conversation with a friend who was wondering whether cash grants are the right thing for Oshede to do. So after sending them a link to the research, I informed them that equipping recipients was part of the plan. All the people who get accepted onto our initiative will …
COVID-19 MALAWI VIRAL CONTAINMENT & POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROJECT
Oshede is a small Non-profit organization based in the Chorlton suburb of Manchester, UK. We recently launched a funding plea for Malawi, East Africa to lessen the impact of COVID-19 on the poorest in society. The project is for a COVID-19 micro-grants scheme to the most disadvantaged people in rural Malawi. As you may know, …
Global Youth Unemployment
Global Youth Unemployment is a serious issue which most countries are grappling with. Unfortunately its something that does not receive sufficient attention that it should. In Africa, the situation is even more critical as even larger economies like those of South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt, Algeria, Morocco and Kenya have sizable youth unemployment rates (See here) …
Bicycle Appeal
We have launched a Bicycle Appeal designed to help us raise funds for our programmes. It’s really simple! All you have to do is contact us if you have a bicycle that you do not use (whether it’s in working order or not) or which you wish to donate to our cause! We’ll collect it …
Society’s Sentinels
Scholars of history are a haunted bunch. They have spent years studying stuff from the past and have learned a few tough lessons from it. This is the case because history truly has a tendency to repeat itself. As the old Biblical saying goes: ‘There is nothing new under the sun’ Essentially historians exist in …
The income challenges faced by Local NGOs
By Sangwani Joseph Nkhwazi Last December, I had an interesting conversation with the director of a Non-governmental Organistion (NGO) in Malawi. It was before Christmas and as is usually the case with such a time of the year, most companies were preparing for the festive season, with Christmas parties aplenty and talk of presents for …
Pitch
Oshede is an online empowerment & support initiative to help people in developing regions with assistance towards paying for post-secondary education or towards developing a sustainable income via micro-enterprises. We do this by giving them a platform on which to crowdsource solutions for their challenges/ projects, be it via goodwill monetary contributions from members of …
