Mobile Mission Maintenance
Mobile Mission Maintenance (MMM) in Ndola, Kitwe, trains orphaned and vulnerable young adults in practical skills so they can earn a living. Most have never been to school because of circumstances beyond their control. Training from MMM gives them hope, dignity and practical help to turn their lives around. MMM is accredited by the government training department so the courses enable them to find jobs more easily.
Training includes brick-laying, carpentry, pig farming and tailoring. MMM is also able to share God’s love with the students and runs biblical studies alongside the practical training. E3 is helping support the Local Empowerment Skills Project, which provides training in churches in the rural areas, as well as a feeding scheme for 250 orphaned and vulnerable children.
E3’s partnership:
Fully-funds 19 orphaned young adults being trained at the main centre.
Supports training courses in bricklaying with an average of 60 students in each at the satellite centres in churches.
Funded a much-needed vehicle to enable project staff to travel around the rural areas where access is difficult.
Feeds 250 orphaned and vulnerable children each week day, many of whom are living with HIV and would otherwise not have a decent meal. Nutritious food is vitally important to the effectiveness of antiretroviral medication. MMMZ buys the chicken meat from its women’s empowerment project. We also provide uniform and shoes to 49 children.
Supports income-generating projects for local people so they can earn a sustainable income and provide for their families.
Grant from E3: £4,000
Sustainability loan of £4,000 in 2020 enabled MMM to open a cafeteria for its own students and others studying nearby to generate an income to help fund its work. The loan has been repaid in full.
Florence Kaniki leads the project.
MMMZ has used two interest free E3 sustainability loans to maximum effect!
It has built an outside covered cafeteria, kitchen and toilets, which is earning a good income as a café for students and venue for hire. MMMZ has used some of the profits with an E3 grant to set up an economic empowerment project with 100 women in Ibenga. The women had no hope and no purpose in life, but now they are respected, full of hope and their dignity has been restored. Some of the women have learned tailoring, some agriculture and others pig farming.
MMMZ breeds pigs and gives a pregnant pig to a family. When the piglets are born, the family gives one third of the piglets back to MMMZ and keeps the rest so they can continue to breed pigs. MMMZ sells some pigs to help fund its work and others are passed on to other families. A local lady looks after the pigs, monitors their health and vaccinations, manages the breeding and trains families to care for them. MMMZ is planning to grow maize to feed the pigs next year. It is so encouraging to see how MMMZ is generating an income and empowering local families. The project started with 5 families and by March 2024, another 20 families had been empowered.
It is so encouraging to see how MMMZ is generating an income and empowering local families.
What a difference a small loan or gift can make in helping a family break free from the cycle of poverty and build a sustainable future. The people we work with have the ideas, the drive, and the potential to run successful businesses, but they lack the initial capital to get started.
Take Miya, for example, who lives in the Kawama community in Luanshya, Zambia. With just £30, she was able to change her life. She purchased two bags of fertilizer and a bag of maize, which she turned into an impressive harvest of 27 bags. With the earnings, Miya invested in a knitting machine and began making school jumpers for the Back to School programme. The profits from her knitting venture allowed her to start a chicken-rearing project. To date, she has sold 50 chickens, earning around £150.
Miya’s story is a testament to what can be achieved with a small investment and a big dream. With the right support, countless others can follow in her footsteps, lifting themselves out of poverty and creating a brighter future for their families and communities.
“My mother struggled to bring me up on her own. She couldn’t work and I have no idea how she managed to pay for me to go to school. When I passed Grade 12, I thought that would be the end of my education but I thank God for E3, because I was picked to go to MMM for training in 2016. Today, I have a skill, which I can use and am working for a construction company so I can gain the experience and funds needed to start my own tile fixing company. I want to employ and train other young people. Thank you for empowering me. Please keep going – there are so many youths who have no future and face depression, alcoholism and prostitution. Please help them find hope for the future.”
Mike Mwita, construction graduate
