The Lifeline Fund has had the pleasure of helping hundreds of disadvantaged young people in Malawi in Africa, giving them access to opportunities to learn and develop practical and fulfilling careers instead of simply struggling to survive. The Lifeline Fund is proud to report of a number of success stories due to the numerous vocational training programmes and university scholarships the organisation funds, including the inspirational story of Henry Chipata.
The Lifeline Fund’s Coordinator, John Searle, received an email from Henry back in April 2009, detailing his progress in life after he left one of the Fund’s many life-saving projects. In the correspondence, Henry proudly explains how he has finished his course at Chancellor College and is currently working for Care Malawi, as part of a research team investigating social protection. He now has a fulfilling career, and is proud to claim that he is a political scientist.
Henry also talks about the valuable work the Lifeline Fund is doing and how support from the organisation helped him to achieve his ambition, saying:
“You [Mr Searle] can see what you have achieved, taking someone off the streets who was a nobody and supporting him into being someone who is going to help in finding better ways of alleviating socio economic and political problems of one of the world’s poorest countries.”
This is a real life and extremely inspiring example of how the work the Lifeline Fund is doing in Malawi is really making a difference to people’s lives and to the country they inhabit.
