Kaya Kitu

Mtuli Foundation through its “Kaya Kitu” project addresses the problem of plastic and rubber waste mismanagement which continue to suffocate our green environment. Through this project, the NGO also solves the financial instability for the charity work that we offer to the rural impoverished communities.

Kaya Kitu project will reuse plastic papers for office and home decorative materials, plastic bottles for office or home products like holders, and rubber disposed tyres for sandals and shock absorbers for movable equipments and machines. Will also produce energy saver cooking stoves that use less fuel wood. These stoves are already produced in Malawi as “Chitetezo Mbaula” though not in production in our area.

This will help to raise money for our charity registered NGO, offer decent affordable products to the impoverished community, and save the environment through these innovative products.

As an existing NGO which has already implemented Sub-Irrigated Planter, project that reuse plastic bottles for agricultural production, it has the capacity to implement the project and offer safe and affordable products to the community in Karonga district, Malawi. Globally, the project can help to manage plastic and rubber materials that do not decompose once disposed of to the environment.

There is a big problem in waste management because lack of knowledge on how such waste can be reused. People use plastics daily and disposing them of is something that happens every minute. The environment is suffocated by the plastic, metal and rubber waste. It is difficult to deal with them as eliminating them completely will require burning which is another dangerous thing to the environment. This is a concern nationally and globally. And statistically, almost everyone (100%) use plastics and dispose of the plastic products to the environment. Leaving the situation, the world is in danger. This is why reusing them will help to clean the environment and reduce production of new products.

The solution is reusing wastes such as plastics and rubber for utility products and championing the effective use of fuel wood to save our green environment. This involves production of sandals from finished tyres, decorative home and office products, office and home products like holders, and cooking stoves that reuse less fuel wood for the locals to use. They will be sold for charity work. Our products are produced from the process that use hand manpower tools with less tools that will require low electricity power especially when cutting and boring. Remember that our catchment area is in the remote and we are providing the services to the most vulnerable power society under limited resources.

We serve the most poor from the village who are facing ultra-poverty and effects of the behaviors of the people in town. These people have seen low agricultural production due to land pollution. These people continue to pollute the land because they are not knowledgeable and have no choice as plastics are used every day. Reusing the waste that are polluting the environment make the environment resilient for production, gives them the cheapest products which serve the same purpose as the ones they can buy in town, prevent the cutting down of trees, and fund their community youth-led NGO so that it continues to serve them with services that change the socioeconomic status of everyone.

As we focus on them as the beneficiaries of the products and our charity work, we always listen to them on what products would be useful for them which they would struggle to raise money and buy in town. Through focus groups, community gatherings and local radios, we will be in touch with the community and hear from their experience of the products. In production, we will harness the skills that the community has so that the production is also building capacity of the locals.

The solution addresses waste mismanagement by reusing them for utility product and serves the underprivileged remote people in the society by providing them with sandals, decorative and other utility products, and cooking stoves which use less fuel wood

It’s good to produce the product and test it so that we get feedback. Although we are optimistic of positive feedback. We endeavor to reach out to 52,000 people under Kalambo, Mwenenguwe and Mwandwanga Senior Chiefs.

Traditionally, we deal with waste by burning. Burning releases carbon which is dangerous. Therefore, reusing them is a good solution and helps to build a new culture of serving the environment in our community.

It will serve 52,694 in the first year and over 1,105,678 in the 5 years

We will evaluate expected outputs with the achieved outcomes to measure impact. This process will involve reports analysis, observations, survey and suggestion box feedback from the community.