Slide Welcome to Shaping Our Future Foundation

Join us in promoting holistic development of a village girl and street child in Malawi

Keeping Girls in School We aim to increase enrolment, retention and completion of education among village girls and boys by providing bursaries, school materials and mentorship across Malawi Street Children's Support we ensure that every street-connected child has a healthy, safe, and moral start in life, an opportunity to quality education and successful passage to adulthood. Economic Empowerment We improve livelihoods and economic self reliance of women and rural communities by empowering communities to conceptualise their on project and provide micro-grants for implementation Sexual and Reproductive Health We address barriers to access menstrual health and hygiene services, while also supporting positive gender and social norms to end violence against women and girls.

OUR IMPACT

2,356

Secondary Education
Bursaries

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121

Secondary Schools  Across Malawi   

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33

Doctors  Trained on Specialised Sexual and Reproductive Health Fields

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15,712

People Benefitted From 
Community-Driven Economic 

Empowerment

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SUCCESS STORIES

DEFYING THE ODDS FOR EDUCATION

Her Excellency Madame Monica Chakwera’s story presented in this film, has also been published as a booklet for children. It is relatable to the experiences of most girls in rural Malawi, and reinforces hope, passion, collaboration and determination  to  address challenges that compromise girls’ access to education.

BEYOND ALINAFE'S IMAGINATION

“My (Alinafe’s) future was doomed when I got married at the age of 14 years. My family  struggled to pay for my school fees, and the only option was to get married”. But, this was not the end of  Alinafe’s future. Learn more about Her Excellency Madam Monica Chakwera’s interventions in championing re-admission of Alinafe in school.

GIRLS HOSTEL CONSTRUCTION

Girls in  hard-to reach community day secondary school face multiple challenges to access education.  Her Excellency  Madam Monica Chakwera through Shaping Our Future Foundation (SOFF) constructed an eighty-bed capacity hostel at Katowo Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) , with funding from Embassy of Japan.

THE INVISIBLE VULNERABILITY

Junior repeated standard 8 for 5 years. During all these years he was selected to different secondary schools, but he failed to go because he lacked school fees.Her Excellency Madam Monica Chakwera through Shaping Our Future Foundation (SOFF) came to his rescue and now supports him with a full scholarship for secondary school education.