Malawi’s leading information and communications technology (ICT) firm, SPARC systems, presented a K750,000 donation to Zambia based Living Open Foundation, which is training Malawian youths in administration software courses.

SPARC systems technical engineer, Grace Jonazi, attributed the sponsorship to the firm’s appreciation for the Zambian initiative, which is in line with SPARC’s objective to empower the youths in ICT innovations. “We are greatly inspired that they are carrying out such an initiative and we thought it was best to come to their assistance,” she said.

Grateful for the sponsorship, the Founder of Living Open Foundation, Santos Venter Chibenga outlined that  the sponsorship will take care of logistics costs since they offer their services for free. On the other hand, he said that the training was aimed at making use of the potential in the youths and instead of waiting for expatriates to conduct such training. “We thought it best to do it ourselves to be tailor made for our needs” he said.