By Elijah Banda<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moses Nyondo is a third born son in\nthe family of Mr & Mrs Clifton Nyondo of Chakwela Village T\/A Kilupula in\nKaronga District. He has 5 siblings, all ladies. His father died in 2013, when\nhe was only 18 years old. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
His mother, now 45, depends on\ncultivation of cassava and rice as a source of income to support the family. However,\nwith dwindling production, due to climate change effects such as flooding and\ndry spells, she has not been able to produce enough to raise enough money for\nthe household to adequately meet the needs of her children including school\nrequirements. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
When asked during the monitoring\nexercise for the vocation skills project under Karonga Diocese\u2019s Education Desk,\nfor which Moses Nyondo is a beneficiary of Brick laying, he had this to say. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was forced to drop out of\nschool because my mum could not afford to support us in school. At the same\ntime, she needed support in the garden for us to produce enough food for the\nfamily.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBeing the eldest child in a 7-member\nfamily, I took up the responsibility of my father. His responsibility was big\non my shoulders and it often required me to be active hence I was with mum in\nthe garden and searching for piece works in other people\u2019s fields to supplement\nour income,\u201d said Moses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moses, with a sad face told the\nmonitoring team that despite all his efforts to see that his siblings have\nenough food and basic needs at home, the family was still experiencing food\nshortages. He calculated that their average monthly income through agricultural\npiece works was not more than MK 15,000 per month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The story of Moses Nyondo started\ngiving hope when he narrated that in March 2019, he was informed by the Village\nhead that Karonga Diocese through the Education Desk would institute a\ncommunity based vocational skills programme in the area targeting school\ndropouts, widows, orphaned kids and child headed families. He did not hesitate\nbut immediately wrote an application letter to be enrolled for brick laying and\nhe was picked and finished his training in July 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soon after training, Moses and\nhis 3 other friends from brick laying trade formed a group and started looking\nfor piece works in construction in the area and their efforts were not in vain.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe formed a group of 3 and we\nwork together on construction projects within the community. We have been given\ncontracts to build houses, churches, tombstones, house repair works, house\nflooring and plastering. Every month, each member of the team gets an average\nof MK 45,000,\u201d said Moses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The family of Moses has a happy\nstory now as they supplement the MK15,000 they were getting from agriculture\nwith MK45,000 from brick laying skills acquired through the project. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
According to Moses, the family is now able to provide school requirements for his sisters and food in the house. He aims to go further with his brick laying skills by enrolling with Miracle Technical Institute in the years to come and later establish a construction company. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moses thanked Karonga Diocese for the project which he described as transformational but asked the project team to further lobby for startup tools for the trainees as many struggle to pick themselves up from the ground based on their family background. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Elijah Banda Moses Nyondo is a third born son in the family of Mr & Mrs Clifton Nyondo of Chakwela Village T\/A Kilupula in Karonga District. He has 5 siblings, all ladies. His father died in 2013, when he was only 18 years old. His mother, now 45, depends on cultivation of cassava and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"iawp_total_views":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karongadiocese.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}