Lilongwe-based organisation, Youth Action for Success and Development (YASD), has embarked on a project aimed at imparting environmental conservation skills among the youth and women in Lilongwe and Dedza districts.
The organisation believes the project will help to slowdown environmental degradation.
YASD founder and executive director Edward Chidombe Msiska says through the project, the organisation hopes to champion green innovations as a pathway of breaking socio-economic barriers for youths and women.
“We are calling this project Local Green Innovation Project (LOGIC) and it will involve the training of 160 youth and women with diverse range of green skills,” said Msiska.
Among others, Chidombe says the organisation will impart the youths and women with skills such as paper recycling, briquettes production, bottle cutting and tree nursery management, just to mention a few.
“We believe imparting them with these innovative skills, attention of some youths and women, who depend on trees for economic survival, will now shift to other means of survival, thereby reducing strain on the environment,” said Msiska.
The project will be implemented with support from IM Swedish Development partner southern Africa.
One of the youth, who stands to benefit from the project, Tapiwa Chintoloma, said it was a timely intervention.
Environmental activist Maloto chimkombero has described the project as a significant step towards eradicating over reliance on trees.
