NEWS:

5 Jan, 2016


Rose receiving the award from Rev Dr Chris.
She grew up in the remote rural village in Karonga district, in the north. She has two brothers and lives with her adoptive parents the Manguluti.
Rose Sakala, a third year LUANAR student studying Agribusiness is the 2015 Future Africa Leadership Awards Star Prize winner which is worthy $25,000. Announced early this morning at an auspicious ceremony held at the Love world Convocation Arena in Lagos, Nigeria, an emotional Rose was seen in disbelief and excitement as she received the award from The FALA founder Rev Dr Chris Oyakhilome PhD of Loveworld Nation also known as Christ Embassy church. “The winners go home with $10,000 and the star award winner goes with $25,000 right? This is to recognise them and support the initiatives they are doing in their respective countries. Pastor Chris confirmed as he spoke to the presenter of the awards pastor TT just before Rose was awarded the Star Prize winner.

Rose Sakala is the definition of persistence and belief. Despite all the setbacks she has faced, she is a role model and she is creating opportunities for thousands of young Malawians. She conducts different motivational talks and she works with different international organisations in areas of food, nutrition, entrepreneurship and women empowerment. She believes that if a girl has the chance of being educated she can have a respectable life. She can ensure that her family and her entire community lead a better life. “Every girl has a motherly ability, which enables her to take care of the community, the environment and the Earth”.
Rose Sakala was born in a poor family in a destitute area in this country which does not even have adequate healthcare services, high unemployment rate, a lot of hopeless young people and she herself has always lived in poverty and under constant threat of food insecurity. Her mother died three years ago from HIV and AIDS, which also caused the death of other seven members of Rose’s family. Rose was forced to abandon her studies for a year due to poverty and lack of support from her parents, while she was attending the Natural Resources College, as she was unable to pay the school fees until later when she was helped back to school. But she put behing all her disadvantaged background to put the plight of her nation first.

She has participated in “Starting from girls: they are the source to trigger a change!” the convention organized by Save the Children during the Women’s Weeks, to guarantee a better future for teenagers. “The other half of the Planet- Women’s Weeks” was a cycle of events that took place from the 29th of June to the 10th of July at Expo Milano in 2015: a debate on the great challenges of nutrition and female empowerment in which she was a speaker and her speech has attracted more action and thoughts about Malawi’s food status, education and girl child empowerment.

FALA wa established 2 years ago in Nigeria by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome in Nigeria and went international last year in which Charles Lipenga was one of the Awardees. FALA was established to encourage, motivate, support and recognize young Africans who are doing marvelous work for the continent. This year, 16 young people were awarded from 28 nominees from different countries.
(Courtesy of Malawi Reports)