LEATHER FOR GENERATIONS

Southern Africa has plenty domestic goats but the byproduct of skin is massively wasted. This is raw material for leather to produce shoes, bags, purses, tote bags, upholstery,ethnic attires etc.

It dawned on me that it is absurd  having the raw material but no initiatives to add value to curb wastage and create jobs and wealth among the communities day in day out while a number of artisans find it almost impossible to get leather for making some leather products for earning a living to curb idleness and joblessness. Hence I had to devise this Appropriate technology well piloted by the help of ALLPI in Addis.

Due to closure of some big companies sone artisans embarked on product making but due to not having readily available leather, the business advancement among SMEs remains dismal.

 Malawi has a population of around 12,000,000 goat and if say 50% was slaughtered, around 6,000,000 skins are available yearly which would enable every school going child have a pairs of shoes to wear the whole year at a price of $15. 

As it is now, the country is grappling to have forex to purchase fuel and yet some retailers are financing importation of rexin school shoes depleting the hard won dollar.

Its imperative that this program gets the kick funding to start producing which would eventually scale up for regional marketing.

This appropriate technology in Leather Value Addition abundantly 

Utilizes natural resource

Creates jobs and wealth.

Reduces poverty greatly and subsidizes on subsistence farming

Substitutes imports and saves the Dollar for other important national requirements.

Encourages independence in income generation and self relience.

The Rural masses will benefit by earning a living not only by those directly involved but money will change hands during sourcing to of domestic needs from those not directly involved in the Leather Value Addition activities.

As a team leader I am directly shouldering the technical skill provision from my academic and experience achievements for decades gone by.

One director is financially experienced.

Another is vocationally technical

And the lady director is quality experienced.

In essence, the technology goes right into the hands of rhe communities and all of us are deaply accustomed to dealing and mingling with the communities in the execution of the service of Skill provision for excellence 

 MALAWI 150 members 

ZAMBIA.     60

ZIMBABWE 60

ESWATINI     60

KENYA.           60

We look foward to advancing our Solving acumen and should there be partners to assist us achieve oyr goals we shall be more thsn happy to instill the self relience for a better living among us the Left behind

Appropriate technology very unique in Southern Africa as targets left behind communities being the custodian of the goat animals from which the by product of skin is derived.

The technology uses homebased ingredients with very little industrials chemicals.

Incorporates Cleaner production concept for an enviromentally friendly venture.

The Appropriate technology enables SMEs to be able to purchase a piece of goat leather and make a product enough tot earn a living which is difficult from an Industriak pointvof view to be to cater for the needs of a small artisan relying on JIT model of product making as required by an individual customer.

Utilize goat skins massively wasted for now in Southern Africa by providing Skills initially in Leather Value Addition in 3 regions of MALAWI.

1000 members are planned to be trained in the entire Leather Value Addition covering 5-6 Southern Africa countries.

Outcome is to have leather made from wasted skins ensuring Sme artisans have easy JIT availability of affordable leather.

The communities will have at hand quality leather Products lasting not less than year which would ensure a school going child walks to school with a strong pair of shoes for the whole school year.

To achieve this the program requires some financial muscle to provide the Skills and when the production starts to flow and make readily available sales, it is possible to be self relient competitively and sustainably with possibility of export collaborative marketing for the crust leather and indeed for the tailormade leather products.

1. Where support/partnership in skill provision is availed, the communities wish the program never stalled at the initial skill provision stage. They are enthusiastic they are supported till the experience is fully gained to usher in the production oriented operations to enable marketing  and selling of quality leather and leather products.

They are kin to see the possibility of a steady Rural industry sustainably contributing to earning a resonable income spanning years and years from the domestic reared livestocks.

The Skill provision ensures communities realise livestock isnt just for meat production. Earnings are possible from the skin if ptoperly preserved and made qulitatively available for unique leather and leather products which everyone in the global world is proud to have in form of, shoes, attires, purses, bags, upholstery etc etc.

Check this out

Skin. = $1

Leather= $10

Sch.shoesx2 = $30.

If say all the Malawian slaughtered goat provided 6,000,000 quality skins,

$180,000,000 would be realised as the grand income.

This is GOLD in the livelihood for communities in Southern Africa.

There would be no need to give handouts where subsistence farming has been affected by pandemics because the sociobusiness fully subsidizes for a comfort livelihood for communities building up to scalable Rural Industrialization.

This is manufacturing technology.

It has virtual backup for monitoring the operational progress of the previous trained group for quality control through cellphone networks while other groups are on current skill provision.

Directors are composed of 3 male and 1 female.

Trained groups are women and youth as majority.

No ethnic, cultural or religous inclination is brought to light at all

Initial skill provision is undertaken for 1st month.

Trial production is followed in the second month plus product manufacture using the ecotanned leather in the 2nd month. Thereafter Production process is enforced in ecotanned throughout to product manufacture for experience motives and sustainability towards marketing and actual selling for income earnings from the sociobusiness being created.

For each group to start earning a living, it will need 2 months of skill provision and production orientation.

It is planned that from the 3rd month of continous support, the proceeds from produced leather and some products would usher in some independence in refunding and self support for moving foward till scalability moves are imminent.

As a team leader and the Skill provider, Solidaridad target group was trained in Mazabuka Zambia for 20 days and leather was produced by the target groups having been contracted as a consultant.

African Parks target group in Chiundaponde Zambia was trained for 10 and though the training period wasnt adequate ,the target group is being monitored virtually from Blantyre my home.