![]() In 2019, Zoe Empowers Malawi staff agreed to bring Suki on as an intern. Suki’s sister helps manage the cosmetics shop. Her two businesses require the help of one full-time employee and all three of her siblings. In the same year she also added onto her business by opening a cosmetic accessories shop right next door to her salon business. She is proud to now call herself a college graduate. Suki received a degree in Rural and Community development in 2019. To avoid the cost of on-campus housing and to keep her salon business growing, she commuted back and forth for two years. She completed her secondary education and went on to college at Lilongwe Technical College, in the country’s capital city located about one hour from her home village. Suki stands proudly in front of her salon and cosmetic shops.īy the time she graduated from the program in 2015, Suki had saved enough money to construct a new home for her mother, whose health had improved, given Suki’s ability to provide regular nutritious meals and medication. Over 90% of Malawi graduates report having a savings in livestock or other assets. Profits from her salon allowed Suki and her siblings to go back to school and invest in pigs and tobacco. Her maternal nature and desire to help has led her to be a mentor to many children in her community and in the Zoe Empowers program. One year later, in 2014, she started her hair salon naming it ‘Aunt Yankho Salon’, meaning ‘the aunt with the answers’. Her charisma and bubbly personality began to surface. Suki excelled in the program curriculum and quickly bonded with her empowerment group. In 2013, she received the opportunity to create the life she envisioned when she was accepted into the inaugural Zoe Empowers Malawi program. She prayed for a better life, the one she remembered before her father’s passing. Her bravery and strong will to persevere powered her through the dark times, times of uncertainty and pain. It hurt me to hear those things.”ĭespite feeling alone and discouraged, Suki kept working. Her dad died and now she has to sell vegetables’. “Community members use to mock me at the market,” Suki recalled. In an effort to make ends meet, she dropped out of school to sell vegetables in the marketplace. Not long after, her mother also became sick, forcing her to become the head of her household at age 14. After a two-month stay at the local hospital, he passed away. ![]() ![]() Life changed in the blink of an eye when Suki’s father fell ill. The family could afford to eat regular meals, wear clean clothing and maintain a fine home. She attended school with her three younger siblings. Her mother was a housewife, while her dad worked hard to provide for the family. The video could be used as a way of teaching the congregation the song, or as a way of connecting with the children that you are partnered with as Hope Companions through the universal medium of music.Īs a young child in rural Malawi, Suki Makalani had a good life.
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