User:Yohane banda

Yohane Banda, born on 14 February 1988 is a Malawian railway mechanical engineer and the founder and vice chairperson of the Yohane Banda Foundation, he pursued a bachelors degree in mechanical Engineering at the Malawi Polytechnic College and graduated in the year 2016. Seeing the financial struggles he faced in pursuing his degree, in the year 2015 he thought of founding an organization which would help hardworking underprivileged students to stay in school as others had helped him to stay in college. The Yohane Banda Foundation was founded in the year 2015 and had 1 beneficiary, now it has 50 beneficiaries, 4 in the home, 29 in scholarship program and 17 from the street kids program. The mission of the Foundation is to reduce poverty through the provision of financial aid to hardworking underprivileged students in Primary, secondary and college and open homes for the homeless street kids and empower street kids through hands on jobs training. The vision of the foundation to see a better Malawi and Africa with no school drop outs due to the lack of fees and for homeless street kids to be given a home, become educated and productive members of the society and to see no street kids in the streets. Yohane Banda is the father figure to these 4 kids in the home and spends time with the 17 street kids as well.