# STEKAskills

## Details

- **Country:** Scotland
- **Charity number:** SC048889
- **Status:** Active
- **Legal form:** SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation)
- **Registered:** Dec. 6, 2018
- **Register:** https://www.oscr.org.uk/about-charities/search-the-register/charity-details?number=SC048889


## Contact

- **Address:** 49C Edinburgh Road, Musselburgh
- **Postcode:** EH21 6EE
- **Website:** www.stekaskills.com



## Activities

**Activities:** &#x27;It makes grants, donations or gifts to organisations&#x27;,&#x27;It carries out activities or services itself&#x27;

**Purposes:** &#x27;the prevention or relief of poverty&#x27;,&#x27;the advancement of citizenship or community development&#x27;

**What the charity does:** STEKAskills is a grassroots Malawian-led SCIO with Malawian/diaspora/Scots trustees. We are led by Malawian NGO STEKA (Step Kids Awareness) run by women/children&#x27;s rights campaigners Helen and Godknows Maseko, STEKA is a home where 100+ trauma and poverty-experienced children/young adults find alternative family and stability. STEKAskills fundraises and contributes expertise to extend STEKA&#x27;s impact beyond the home to marginalised young people &amp; adults living in Rural Blantyre so more poverty &amp; trauma experienced Malawians empower themselves by developing the vocational skills, confidence, &amp; agency needed to challenge structural inequalities (including establish small businesses to work their way out of poverty). We fund a STEKA Centre for Vocational Skills and Community Enterprise (SCIVSCE) comprising of 3 vocational skills teaching blocks, kitchen, agricultural farm and, soon, a women&#x27;s hostel and nursery on its campus.

**Beneficiaries:** &#x27;Children or young people&#x27;,&#x27;People with a particular ethnic or racial origin&#x27;,&#x27;No specific group, or for the benefit of the community&#x27;

**Objectives:** 4 The objectives and purpose of the group is to involve Scottish (or any other associated) communities (particularly young adults or organisations such as schools, churches, clubs) in connecting with their contemporaries in Malawi to:  (4.1) Develop and sustain a STEKA Centre for Vocational Skills and Community Enterprise, enabling it to reach more homeless and vulnerable young people in Malawi who would otherwise be faced with lives in poverty. encouraging their social participation, getting their voices heard, giving them life skills and vocational skills to help them secure sustainable futures.  (4.2) Understand the UN&#x27;s Global Goals for sustainable development and help realise the power of volunteering which the United Nations deems essential to the achievement of the Global Goals to &#x27;facilitate changes in mind-sets by raising





## Geography

- **Main operating location:** City of Edinburgh
- **Geographical spread:** UK and overseas







