Nkhadze Alive Youth Organisation (Nayorg) led by musician Charles Sinetre, widely known as Reggae Ambassador, is set to launch Giving Tuesday Malawi next month.
The development comes barely four months after Sinetre attended the Giving Tuesday Global Summit for country leaders in Lisbon, Portugal, where he also shared his music.
He said Giving Tuesday Global was founded in 2012 to inspire generosity around the globe.
“Malawi joined the movement this year. Currently, there are 90-plus countries that form part of the movement globally including Malawi. We did say last time that we would be launching it in Malawi and now we are ready,” Sinetre said.
He said, from 2010 through to 2016, Nkhadze received support from Unicef to implement a two-phase musical project called ‘Young People Against HIV and Aids through Music and Dance’.
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“The project targeted 2,000 young people from five secondary schools in Balaka. The youth were trained in choreography (music and dance) as one of the strategy for disseminating HIV and Aids key messages,” Sinetre said.
He said the trained young people reached out to two million young and old people through rallies, media and campaigns.
“The 2010-13 journey of Nayorg demonstrates how small contributions can make a huge impact on people’s lives. Currently, the Malawian young people, who benefitted from Unicef- funded activity inspired by Giving Tuesday generosity would like to share their stories and impact more individuals,” Sinetre said.
He said Giving Tuesday Malawi launch seeks to create mental health awareness for youth and men through music and dance as well as reduce misconceptions of artificial intelligence technology for mental health operations.
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“Through this platform, we want to build resilience of young people and use community philanthropy to achieve their goals. Records has it that there are rising cases of suicide related to mental health issues due to lack of guidance, reluctance to share their worries with friends,” he said.
Sinetre said they, as an organisation, were convinced that using music and dance would bring about change because of the double sword effect it carries.
“We are geared to change the mental health landscape and reduce cases of suicide,” he said.
Sinetre said they have partnered Zomba Mental Hospital with a number of activities set to take place during the launch, including discussions on mental health to be offered by mental health experts.
Zomba Mental Hospital Director Raphael Piringu hailed Nayorg for utilising music and dance to bring awareness about mental health, which he said is one of the neglected diseases in the world.
