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| KNCU Secretary Dong-Seok Min in 2015 with Malawi Minister of Gender Patricia Kaliati |
One of the Bridge project sites, Mwera Community Learning Centre in Lilongwe has been earmarked for a US$ 50 thousand worth cafeteria project which after its completion it is expected to support lives of communities and enhance skills for learners.
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| Dong-Seok Min |
When confirming the development Dong-Seok MIN, Secretary-General of the Korean National Commission for UNESCO (KNCU) said the construction works are expeted to begin this year.
“It has not finally been decided but on my way to Lilongwe I had a telephone conversation with CEO of a company whom I suggested to work with us in constructing cafeteria as we did to the Community Learning Center of Ha-motsu in Lesotho last year." Said the KNCU Secretary
"It will be a good facility of providing food to the student’s studying at Community Learning center of Mwera area and more importantly it will play a role of enhancing learners skills for making food for restaurants in that area so we could use the cafeteria once completed for number of ways.” He said
Through its Bridge Africa Project, KNCU operates three project sites in Malawi namely; Mwera, Namiyango (Blantyre) and Naphini located in Songani (Zomba) Community Learning Centres. The project is done in partnership with Ministry of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, National Centre for Literacy and Adult Education (NCLAE).
At the recent joint media briefing between Malawi Government and KNCU, Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare, Honorable Patricia Kaliati commended KNCU for the life changing programmes that KNCU is implementing in Malawi especially in literacy and vocational training.
Kaliati also urged Malawians to unite and support Government in its quest of promoting pre-schools and literacy saying this helped to transform Korea from a recipient country to a donor country after war that broke out in the country in 1950 which left the country in ruins and despair.
For the past five years, KNCU has developed Community Learning Centres in various African Countries and provided them with support to implement their own projects as well as providing intensive training workshops and educational materials.
