Mohamed: A VERY Precise Goal

Mohamed  •  Malawi

Mohamed buzzes around his fourth grade classroom like a ball shot from a cannon, and he’ll tell anyone who will listen exactly what he wants to be when he grows up: the branch manager of the International Bank of Malawi.

Mohamed didn’t always have big ideas; growing up, he didn’t even have access to running water or electricity, and he didn’t know that a life outside of poverty was possible.

Mohamed and his classmates are eager to learn at our partner, Pothawira's primary school.

ON THE RISE

When he joined our program, he started school and everything changed. He excelled in school. Mohammed has discovered his own potential and skills and is on his way to high school.

Access to education exposed him to professions he never knew existed. He started to see how he could be part of the solution to the brokenness he grew up in. He began to focus on what life might look like as a businessman.

In addition to his (very precise!) goal of becoming a branch manager, Mohamed is inspired to help teach people in his community about money and ways in which they can start their own businesses. He’s learned that if he can help people bring revenue and employment to his community, his neighbors will be strengthened in the long term.

All Mohamed needed was a place to learn, and grown-ups to model himself after. What a good use of a whole lot of energy.

You are making it possible for Mohamed to be in school. Because of you, he will be able to help others.