Chinese embassy in Malawi donates sewing machines to tailoring industry

The Chinese Embassy in Malawi has donated 60 modern electric sewing machines to Malawi’s Ministry of Labor to boost the local tailoring industry.
Speaking during the handover ceremony, Liu Hongyang, Chinese Ambassador to Malawi said the machines would help promote vocational skills among the youth in the five modern community technical colleges.
According to him, the Chinese government constructed the technical colleges in the country and handed over to the Malawian government in February.
He noted that the donation would complement the Malawian government’s recent resolution to stop importing uniforms for employees in sectors such as Malawi Police Service, Defence Force, Prison Services and the health sector.
Malawi’s Minister of Labor Vera Kamtukule thanked the Chinese Embassy for the donation, saying it would fill the existing gap in terms of equipment in the country’s community technical colleges.
She said there were still more gaps in other faculties of the community technical colleges that needed filling.
“The students who graduated have the skills but they are not able to use them because they don’t have equipment so this donation is timely,” said the minister.
She said other areas that needed support in terms of equipment in the technical colleges included plumbing and carpentry.
The Chinese ambassador, who is winding up his term of office in Malawi, said that the Chinese government was ready to make more donations to the Malawian government to contribute to Malawi’s 2063 Agenda.
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Since 2008, the Chinese government had supported Malawi through a number of donations, grants and concessional loans for infrastructural development in the areas of health, agriculture, energy, transport and sport. (