Membership

Joining KEYS

At KEYS, membership has been made easy and simple. Once individuals voluntarily join committees, they automatically become members of the organization. This arrangement helps for proper, speedy, and accurate implementation of programs and related policies. The community has demonstrated abundant support and receptivity to KEYS’ endeavors.

Benefits

Becoming a member means one will have these benefits:

  • Access to information and training
  • Taking part in planning, proposing, and implementing projects
  • Taking part in transforming communities, conserving culture, and natural resources.

Furthermore, the member will be able to purchase shares and access loans from the KEYS Investment Fund ‘Ndatukuka’. Any member will have the opportunity to internship and references.

A group of person with farming equipment such as hoes on the field they are preparing for sowing. They are arranged in three rows with the foremost row kneeling and the person in the other two rows standing.

Members of the KEYS Organization during preparation of land to sow legumes.

About ‘Ndatukuka’ Investment Fund

The word Ndatukuka is a Chichewa language phrase, the Malawi’s national language that refers to, “I have prospered.” The Ndatukuka phrase denotes a strategy to motivate and remind any member borrowing money from this fund, that its main purpose is to transform their lives and that the money needs not to be misused or abused in any form. The revenues from the sales of legumes are first injected into the Ndatukuka fund, and the members accessing the loans pay back with a fair interest charge to grow the fund and maintain its value. Besides, members also purchase shares which are loaned out to members. So, the phrase Ndatukuka possesses a strong reminder to members to borrow the money for a reason and invest into their businesses wisely and profitably. We hope that Ndatukuka will create jobs and by far instigate sustainable wealth creation.