大象传媒

Between 80,000 to 120,000 young people leave secondary schools each year in Malawi. Not all of them can get into university.That's why a network of Technical Colleges and Community Development Centres train 10,000 young people each year in skills like plumbing, construction, textiles and carpentry to give them a practical start. The idea is also to turn them into young entrepreneurs. The 大象传媒 Newsday's Alan Kasujja has been to Lilongwe Technical College to find out more.

(Picture: -left- Francis Matope, former student and mechanic; -centre- students at the college; -right- students looking under a car's bonnet. Credit: 大象传媒/Alan Kasujja)