By Chisomo Phiri
In its quest to support tailoring and fashion design skills among the youths in the country,Old Mutual Malawi has today donated K3 million to Tingathe Malawi Organization.
Among other things, the amount will support 80 young people taking tailoring and fashion design skills at the organization.
Speaking with the members of the press, Old Mutual Group Chief Finance Officer, Vera Zulu, said the donation has been made because the company believes the youth are critical to the nation’s development.
” You may wish to know that our partnership with Tingathe started in 2017, and today we are glad that over this period, we have together managed to graduate three cohorts of around 600 young people form peri-urban communities of Mtandire, Mtsiriza, Njewa, Senti, Kauma, Ngona and area 49 in Lilongwe,” she said.
In his part, Tingathe Malawi member Chikondi Kaponda said the donation has come handy when there is need and that the support will indeed be used for appropriate tasks.
Said Kaponda ” We are very excited with the donation from the old mutual and we believe this will help us a lot. We thank Old Mutual for the gesture.”
The overall goal of the Tingathe program is to help Malawi towards achievement of the UNAIDS 95-95-95 benchmarks, which call for 95% of HIV-infected individuals to know their status, 95% of patients who know their status to be started and adherent on ART, and 95% of patients on ART to be virally suppressed by 2030.
The organization strongly believes that the global community is at a turning point in the fight against HIV and AIDS, and that the resources, tools, and knowledge are available to truly realize ‘Control of the Epidemic’.
Tingathe is committed to serving this vision and capitalizing on this unique opportunity through a skilled, coordinated approach that will contribute to an ‘AIDS-Free Generation’ in Malawi.
