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EDUCATION
SKills
Empowerment
OUR PURPOSE
Bae-Community Network is a partner-driven grassroots movement fundamentally tackling poverty in urban slums, by connecting business owners at the bottom of the pyramid with the critical resources and community they need to thrive, changing their WORLD. We’re empowering women and ambitious young people, making everyday-life simple and fulfilling.
HelpLawyer Programme
Poverty and access to valuable resources are some of the challenges women-owned businesses and aspiring youth entrepreneurs face. Help-Lawyer sets small business founders on a path to overcome urban poverty and other complexities, such as access to legal services and business advice that suit their unique business needs, unlocking opportunities for their growth and economic prosperity.
In business if you are to succeed, having a good source of legal services and business advice is essential. With Help-Lawyer, you can now deal effectively with all the challenges that present themselves along the lifecycle of your business journey.
Are you a start-up, entrepreneurial enthusiast or a freelancer? Help-Lawyer is here for you. We help you set-up and grow your business with zero hassle.
DELIVERY: One-on-One and Online.
TARGET: Youth, Women & Small Business Founders.
COST: Free. You only contribute commitment fee.
How we measure impact:
- Decline of poverty.
- Number of graduating informal businesses to formal.
- Improvement of target groups’ access to innovative services.
- Reduction of failure rates of women-owned businesses.
- Seeing more youth from fatherless families improve economica
HOW IT WORKS?
Our promise to partners and small business founders is that we’ll continue to streamline our processes and handle everyday business activities of beneficiaries with confidence and efficiency to ensure resources at our disposal have the best impact at every stage of the business life cycle. We’re making life easier for SBF to scale.
1. Starting a Business
We ensure you have all business facts right by reviewing, which may include further recommendations, so your efforts are hassle free. Launch your business with confidence that your idea will sell, with a plan that will accelerate your growth and protect you.
2. Growing a Business
We offer SBF everything they need to accelerate their business. A business needs so much more to grow, from managing staff to interacting with the market.
3. Running a Business
For efficiency, it’s the desire of every entrepreneur to have efficient processes. SBF therefore need to be confident that they are equipped for the race in the long-term. We give you the tools and support you need to manage a business in the most effective and efficient way.
What we Do
Without support, the legal side of things for SBF can be daunting. HelpLawyer works with SBF on a variety of transactional issues:
- Entity Legal Structure
- Entity Selection
- Protection of Business Assets
- Corporate Governance & Essential Templates
- Commercial Leases
- Contacts & Negotiation System
- Cost & Implications
HelpMarketing Programme
Our HelpMarketing Programme is a small business founders and entrepreneurship career accelerator, designed to jump-start ambitious youth and women to economic prosperity. We tackle unemployment by enabling young people create sustainable businesses by providing the marketing and sales support, the right tools they need to succeed in entrepreneurship and increase revenues.
1 in 3 young people lack mentorship, a scary statistic. Join us, so we help and prepare your business for greatness. We believe that success of any enterprise is as a result of delivering value to the target market and to do so, there is need to establish a strong brand that retains customers and reaches a wider target audience.
80% of small businesses lack access to the right knowledge and tools for their small-scale businesses. Let’s Get ALL Small Business Founders Scaling!
DELIVERY: One-on-One and Online
TARGET: Youth, Women & Small Business Founders.
COST: Free, you only contribute commitment fee.
WHAT EXACTLY IS HELP-MARKETING?
Help-Marketing is more than just a program of marketing and sales. It’s a marketing lifestyle and consulting ecosystem, providing seamless free marketing solutions to underserved small business founders, youth and women in Malawi and beyond.
WHAT MAKES US A FORCE TO BE RECKONED WITH
Help-Marketing programme was launched with a mission to help accelerate small business founders in Malawi, and fulfill their entrepreneurial growth potential by democratizing access to valuable marketing and sales consultations solutions, for their business and local economy needs so they thrive, improving lives.
What we Do
Help-Marketing services are designed to scale impact and sustainability of small business founders (SBF) businesses. We provide free consultations to explore how to connect their brands and products with target markets, with the view to grow sales, market share and the bottom-line. By creating sustainable small businesses, we’re scaling livelihood opportunities for communities in urban slums and rural areas, completely tackling the challenges SBF face to access lucrative markets.
Business services we provide via our experts include; the ‘How-To’ training and mentoring support that you access for FREE, things like:
- The Entrepreneurial Bigger Picture
- Marketing Plan
- Logo Design & Corporate Identity
- The Secret to Branding
- Mentoring for Marketing
- Landing Page Setup
- Digital & Social Media Presence
- How to Sell & Distribute to 7 Figures
- Performance Management System
HelpFinance Programme
In Malawi 84% of micro and small scale enterprises are women-owned. Given the fact that the majority MSMEs in Malawi are micro enterprises, about 3 in 4 enterprises (74%) are micro enterprises, 23% are small enterprises and 3% are medium enterprises, focus on women-owned businesses will achieve greater impact, critical to boosting local economy, ending hunger and urban poverty and supporting decent job creation.
Help-Finance Programme unlocks micro and small business founders’ financial literacy and gets them familiar with aspects of personal and small business finance, enabling them to work and manage financial affairs hassle-free.
Our partner finance experts help with financial education, advice and planning, bookkeeping and other financial support services. We started this consultancy service to help small business founders build the businesses they are passionate about, and operate, and perform at their full potential so they thrive.
To be part of this program, Apply by sending us a message. You can also get in touch via WhatsApp on +265 885 737 749.
Let’s set you on a Path to Prosperity with zero hassle!
DELIVERY: One-on-One and Online.
TARGET: Youth, Women & Small Business Founders.
FEES: Free, you only contribute commitment fee.
WHAT EXACTLY IS HELP-PERSONAL FINANCE?
Help-Personal Finance Program tackles small business founders financial literacy gaps to enable them work comfortably with aspects of small business finance and thrive.
What We Do
Get help with money management, managing credit, business booking and learn how to setup your books and control systems and so much more:
- Managing Your Money
- Financial Systems
- Sales & Stocks Management
- Growth Projections
- Financial Management
- Pricing, Cost & Strategy
- Forecasting Future Operations
- Funding
We’re Making Life Easier for Youth and Women-Led MSMEs
Your Giving Supports Small Business Founders to Launch Growth Businesses that Change Their World
ShopMSMEs Programme
With the right tools and support, women and small business founders at the bottom of the pyramid can build successful businesses.
Bae-MSME Fund is supporting small businesses as an investment in RESIDENTS’ own communities, because as a business succeeds, more jobs are created. So every kwacha you spend at a small business in your community and on local products, helps keep a business afloat and also helps communities THRIVE and stay vibrant.
We empower the communities through valuable essential services including:
- Marketing & Media platform for local businesses.
- Media Spotlight of growth entrepreneurs to Inspire.
- Digitization of small businesses without need to hire.
- Creation of Community Centers. These act as meeting places, Computer labs housing local libraries for youth and women. This facility is also designed to house mentorship sessions & community business meetings for social and enterprise development.
BoysAlert Programme
BoysAlert is a non-profit social platform that works with boys at our resource centers to design interventions that tackle violence against women and girls and accelerate the safe spaces for women and girls by teaching young males healthy masculinity and how they relate with females.
This transformative initiative supports boys in their personal development, engaging them to take actions and become part of the process to end violence against girls and women. The interventions allow boys and young men access critical resources in their journey to adulthood, so they become agents of peace.
These include things like:
- Mentorship & Leadership Training.
- Counseling & Mental Health Support.
- Crisis Intervention & Peace Building
- Suicide Prevention.
- Education & Employable Skills.
- Behavior Change & Sports.
- Career Guidance
- Team Building Activities
Delivery:
- One-on-One sessions.
- In-school mentoring.
- Online group sessions.
- Outdoor communities talk broadcasts.
- Ongoing training and support.
Kids Early Learning Centre Programme
This is a tuition-FREE education center designed for underserved communities and slum-dwellers kids to have equal access to quality education that increases their chance to become leaders. According to the 2022 World Bank report, Over 51% of Malawians are poor, almost no different from a decade ago. Poverty is worse in urban slums and rural areas, with majority living under $1.90.
Program Goal
Our aim is to give equal opportunity, by bringing transformative education and resources to vulnerable children and marginalized communities in Malawi.
This support is given at the right time, from the age of 1 – 6, teaching, coaching mentoring and providing critical resources to them 360 degrees on their journey to adulthood. This eventually contributes to eradicating poverty and behavior disorders in urban slums and rural areas.
Capabilities
Every child receives:
- Tuition Free Teaching,
- Coaching & Mentorship.
- Uniforms
- School Learning Materials.
- Healthcare
- On-Going Mentoring
Supporting Outcomes of
SDG 1- End poverty in all its forms everywhere, SDG 2 – End hunger, SDG 3 – Ensure healthy lives, SDG 5 – Achieve gender equality and empower women and girls; SDG 7 – Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all, SDG 8 – Promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth, productive employment and decent work for all and SDG 10 – Reduce inequality within and among countries.
CAREER-READINESS PROGRAMS
Enhance your career and increase your earning potential with our certified employable-skills courses. Join the community of skilled talent employers look for.
01. For Job Seekers & School Leavers
You’ll be ready to be placed on jobs and internships, 80% get the opportunity within 8 months:
- Financial Services & Insurance Sales Career.
- Social Media, Computer & Marketing Fundamentals.
- B2B & B2C Distributed Sales Closers Career.
- Retail, Restaurant, front office & Hospitality Career.
- CV Generation, Interview Dynamics & Effective Job Hunting.
- Financial Literacy & Money Management Fundamentals.
- New Product Development Essentials for Entrepreneurs.
- Best Business Practices & Skills Monetization.
- 21st Century Soft Skills.
- Entrepreneurship Career Fundamentals for Beginners.
- Driving as Career, Fundamentals for Beginners.
- Business Essentials, Branding 101 & Funding.
- Welding Assistant Career for Beginners.
- Electrical Installation & Repair Career for Beginners
- Tailoring & Fashion Career for Beginners
- Photography & Videography Career
DELIVERY: One-on-One and Online.
AGE: 18 – 35 years.
FEES: Free, you only contribute commitment fee.
GRADUATION:
You receive a Certificate of Achievement on successful completion of each programme.
02. Skills Incubator for Women Entrepreneurs Programme
Women will be ready to start and grow businesses they are passionate about.
We deliver life-changing simple-to-start skills-to-Career entrepreneurship programs. We help women via educational programming, jumpstarting them to financial freedom.
The Women Entrepreneurs Programme makes profound and long lasting impact on the lives of women as they build their businesses to secure a secure future. The training programs are more than just teaching participants to gain the skills they need to start up in business, it’s about dramatically changing their lives, their families and communities better.
Programs include:
- Cooking, Catering & Events Planning
- Marketing for Catering Business
- Makeup Fundamentals for Beginners
- Manicure Made Easy
- Tailoring for Beginners
- Events Décor for Beginners
- Sales & Financial Literacy for Business
- Understanding Business Numbers for SMEs
AGE: 18– 35 Years Old, Women.
FEES: Free, you only contribute commitment fee.
GRADUATION:
You receive a Certificate of Achievement on successful completion of each program.