This month we broke ground on the foundations for SAM’s entrepreneurial village in Namadzi, a village an hour outside Blantyre, Malawi.
After talking with the community, farm staff and touring other projects in Malawi our team had an idea what the needs and wants were in the Namadzi community. A group of six women came together to form our founding members, this group will guide the projects as the entrepreneurial village takes form.
The aim of this project is to provide learning and financial opportunities to the women in the communities surrounding Saint Andrew Macadamia farm. This will be an ongoing and evolving project.
A clear theme came through the group’s ideas, farming, more specifically regenerative farming projects. Each proposed idea was judged on its profitability and innovation. The first projects SAM’s team will tackle is beekeeping, something none of our members have done before. We also started clearing lands for our vegetable garden and seedling nursery that will be used to grow indigenous trees that will be for sale.
As the foundation slowly forms and new projects emerge the key objective is that the foundation eventually will become self sufficient and give back to the surrounding communities through trainings and micro-loans.
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