Why Bae-Community Network

Our Purpose

We provide employable skills and entrepreneurship-readiness skills training in urban slums, focused on underserved communities. We also operate a financial platform to enable; women, youth and small business owners OWN productive business assets and build growth businesses, fostering financial inclusion that dramatically changes their economic trajectory and improving lives.

Together with our Partners, we ensure growth of MSMEs, inspire boys, girls and women to be focused and become leaders, so we can light the lives of 80% of informal businesses and 10+ Million ambitious Malawians.

Our Goal

Bea-Community Network is a community-focused intervention centre aimed at bettering the lives of our urban slum communities through creating life-changing opportunities.

The Problems

  1. 80% of Malawians are unbanked, so they cannot access avaialable credit.
  2. Research from What Works found that when families are wallowing in poverty, harmful practices like child marriages and gender-based violence increase. It creates a pattern of violence and poverty.
  3. Gender-based violence itself has effects such as homicide and suicide, injury and shock and psychological problems. Malawi has recently seen rise in suicide case, recorded a 57% increase in recent years, since 2019.
  4. 92% of people killing themselves are young men while 8% are women. Unemployment is recorded to be the big factor. “ Women when they are faced with problems, they’re able to talk it out. They reach out to their friends, whereas boys and young men, with the culture that men don’t cry, they don’t reach out for help. So, when they are challenged, don’t have means to put food on the table or send kids to school, they resort to committing suicide.
  5. Children from fatherless homes are known to be more likely to drop out of school, exhibit behavioral problems, and end up in criminal justice system. 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless/single parent homes. Hence the launch of BoysAlert.
  6. 85% of youth do not complete senior secondary school education. 3 in every 20 Malawian girls leave primary school between standard 5 and 8.
  7. Orphaned kids lack parental cares and support. Have limited access to education and healthcare and are at risk for exploitation and abuse. Hence we lunched a Tuition-Free SangaKids Entrepreneurial Academy.
  8. Poverty, hunger or death of parents causes street children in Malawi. This increases criminality in urban areas in the long term. 51% of Malawian population is poor (2022 World Bank Poverty Assessment Report).
The Solutions

Bae-MSME Fund Goal is to reduce poverty by tackling financial exclusion enabling ambitious young people from marginalized communities to have equal access to quality education, cheap credit, employable and entrepreneurship-readiness skills, income-generating assets and behavior change interventions.

Further, we provide kids 2 – 6 years a Tuition-FREE education from our community centers. We also provide young people (under 35) spaces to interact and ask questions on topics that secure their future.

Within the special services under the Urban-Slum Network strategic business unit, we have a component of Gender-based violence, awareness programming and response services because of the overwhelming need for on-demand service for such and lack of gender-based on-demand services available.

We note of high prevalence of girls abuse by people who are supposed to be hosts and mentors in schools and homes. Domestic violence and a lack of social safety nets in urban slum communities in Malawi, has resulted in an overwhelming need to combat it while operating closer to the needy and at risk via community centers.

Our case workers are carefully selected experts in social marketing to combat any form of violence and so we do educate, and empower the at-risk to achieve a future without violence.

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