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 21 st November , 2012 The Office of the President The National Scholars Association of Malawi (NaSAM) C/o Box 280 Zomba Malawi [email protected]

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21st November, 2012

The Office of the PresidentThe National Scholars Association of Malawi (NaSAM)C/o Box 280

Zomba

Malawi

[email protected]

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Table of Contents

1.0  Introduction to NaSAM………………………………………………………...   2 

2.0  Goals of the Year……………………………………………………………………… 2 

3.0  Strategies for furthering the goals………………………………………………….  3 

4.0  Planned Programs, Campaigns and initiatives…………………………………..  3 

4.1 The Information and Publications Department…………………………….  4 

4.1.1  NaSAM Official Website……………………………………………..  4 

4.1.2  Information Collection Project………………………………………..  5 

4.1.3  Student Mail…………………………………………………………..  5 

4.1.4  Malawi Students Social Network ……………………………………..  6 

4.1.5  NaSAM Weekly Newsletter…………………………………………..  6 

4.1.6  The Scholars’ Point Magazine…………………………………………  7 

4.1.7 The Road to Success Series……………………………………………  7 

4.2 Academic Affairs Directorate…………………………………………………  7 

4.2.1  NaSAM Brainiax Challenge…………………………………………..  8 

4.2.2  The Malawi Students and Stakeholders Conference………………….  8 

4.2.3  Free Internet Campaign……………………………………………….  8 

4.2.4  The Electronic Resources Initiative…………………………………..  8 

4.3 Religious Affairs Directorate………………………………………………….  9 

4.3.1  Scholars Alms………………………………………………………….  9 

4.4 Students Welfare and Development Directorate…………………………….  10 

4.4.1  Entrepreneurship Seminars……………………………………………  10 

4.4.2  The Student Volunteers Community…………………………………...  10 

4.4.3  The Malawi Students Creativity Fair………………………………….  11 

4.5 Fundraising and Economic Affairs Directorate………………………………  11 

4.5.1  The Student Shopper Card……………………………………………..  11 

4.1.2  NaSAM Invest…………………………………………………………  12 

4.6 Women Affairs Directorate……………………………………………………  12 

4.7 Legal and Political Affairs Directorate……………………………………….  13 

4.7.1  Student Leaders and Administrators Conference……………………..  13 

4.8 Sports and Entertainment Directorate………………………………………  14 

4.8.1  Scholars Trophy……………………………………………………….  14 

4.8.2  Students-Got-Talent Show…………………………………………….  14 

4.8.3  Scholars National Heritage Day……………………………………….  14 

4.9 International Students Affairs Directorate……………………………………  14 4.9.2  Malawi Students Achievers Program…………………………………..  15 

5.0  Financial Strategy……………………………………………………………….  15 

6.0  Human Resource Strategy………………………………………………………  15 

7.0  Publicity and Coordination Strategy………………………………………….  16 

8.0  Final Words…………………………………………………………………….  16 

Appendix 1:  2012/2013 NaSAM Executive Council………………………………………..  17 

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1.0.  Introduction

The National Scholars Association of Malawi (NaSAM) is an association of all tertiary education

students in Malawi. NaSAM aims at standing for the voice of students in Malawi, studying both

in public and private institutions; fighting for their rights and welfare. The association also aims

at charging students, as an integral part of the society, to making a contribution to the

development of Malawi through positive student activism and taking part in development

programs, in such way also changing the face of the students’ movement.

In order to achieve this, the NaSAM executive has lined up a number of campaigns, initiatives

and programs for the year 2012/2013. The Executive shall work together in close contact with

the other arms of the organization: the NaSAM Congress, the Secretariat, the Board of Trustees

and the Board of Advisors in order to achieve the goals set up for the year.

2.0.  Goals for the year

  Register student unions of all colleges in Malawi as members of NaSAM

  Register all students’ organizations and societies in Colleges as associate members of 

NaSAM

  Win popularity and trust of all stakeholders in tertiary education: students,

College/University Staff, NGO’s, CSO’s, Faith-based institutions, the Government,

Private Institutions, donors and the Malawian peoples.

  Gain marked presence throughout Africa (or at least Southern Africa) and other parts of 

the world as an object of pride for the Malawian Nation and an example of creativity and

positive action for the world to see.

  Create a database of information of and about all tertiary education institutions in

Malawi: the students unions therein, student’s organizations and societies; problems

facing students and make known such information through as many channels as possible.

  Create platforms, systems and structures to unite all students without considering which

institutions they come from, organizing them to furthering the aims of the student

movement.

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3.0.  Strategies to furthering the goals

The NaSAM executive shall therefore use the following strategies to further the goals as

presented above:

  Visit all colleges in Malawi; in such visit

o  Arranging meetings with students unions and college Principals to introduce

NaSAM

o  Collecting through questionnaire information important in the furthering of the

goals of the student movement.

o  Meeting with leaders of all student organizations and societies at the campus

introducing to them NaSAM Initiatives and calling on them to be associate

members of the Student Movement.

  Using the media to condemn such practices that infringe on the rights of students and

those that deteriorate their welfare and arranging meetings with stakeholders involved in

such activities for negotiations.

  Using websites, social networks, publications, conferences and other media to collect and

transmit student concerns, suggestions to solve those concerns and programs being

conducted by NaSAM to solve those concerns.

  Creating social networks that will bring all students under one virtual roof.

  Organize all students to do large scale works of charity and voluntarism across the

country and internationally.

  Play an advisory role to students’ unions, student organizations and societies and special

placed students e.g. freshmen, Final years and female students through contact,

conferences, workshops and publications.

  Visit and host (or invite) national students’ unions of countries in Southern Africa and

beyond to share knowledge and showcase creativity of the Malawian Students

Movement.

4.0.  Planned Programs, Campaigns and Initiatives

Offices and directorates in NaSAM have therefore planned many programs, campaigns and

Initiatives to further the goals of the association. These programs shall be running concurrently

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with other interventions in emergency cases that arise in due course. On every activity, the

directorates and departments shall set up a team of students to oversee and run such an activity to

incorporate as many students as possible in running the student movement and also to have a

large working force to ensure that the goals are realized without any student suffering loss of 

time for academic endeavors. The following are the programs organized in offices and

directorates throughout NaSAM:

4.1.  THE INFORMATION AND PUBLICATIONS DEPARTMENT

The Information and publications department shall be controlled by the Administrative

and Publicity Secretary together with the Secretary of Press and Information (in the

Secretariat). The Office shall also incorporate a team of students into a NaSAM editorial

to help carrying out its functions.

The office shall be committed to collecting and breaking all information in NaSAM. Not

only shall the office be committed to breaking information on students’ concerns, but it

shall also release information about all tertiary institutions in Malawi to benefit

Secondary School and High School students in Malawi, inspiring them and tutoring them

on how they can enroll in those institutions to ensure equal access to tertiary education in

Malawi.

The following are the programs lined up by the department to further the goals of 

NaSAM this year:

4.1.1.  NaSAM Official Website

The aims of the website shall be:

  To provide authentic information of all activities going on within NaSAM

including all NaSAM directorates to the student community and the general

public.

  To provide a platform whereby the student community can contribute to the

running of the organization, e.g. through forums and online petitions.

  Providing information and contacts of NaSAM office bearers, NaSAM areas

of interest, strategic plans and projects for well-wishers, donors, decision

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makers, and all stakeholders in and outside the country to know how they can

help the student community.

  Providing information of all institutions of higher education including how

students can enroll to secondary school students, high schools, students who

would like to continue their studies and the general public.

  Providing a portal whereby unions and associated organizations can run their

pages to inform their members, the student community and stakeholders of the

activities they are running as well as other important information.

  Providing any other information important to the student community.

4.1.2.  Information Collection Project

The department shall involve itself in a wide information collection project,through questionnaires administered to student leaders, freshmen, female

students, final year students and students with disabilities to collect information

important for the advancement of NaSAM goals. The department shall also

collect such documents as Student Unions’ constitutions, Constitutions for

Student organizations and societies and College/University Student Handbooks.

4.1.3.  Student Mail

The department shall set up a Students Mail engine (preferably on a

@students.mw web domain) with the following benefits:

a)  For Clients (Students)

  Receive free newsletters from NaSAM

  Receive NaSAM info, activities and reports

  Receive scholarship positions and internships info

  Sign up on NaSAM web services such as social networks and student

blogs

  Use as authorization when voting in web polls, signing electronic

(web) petitions and commenting in forums.

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b)  For NaSAM

  It is the most secure way of registration for any of NaSAM services

since there will be a guarantee that every client of the mail engine is a

student. 

  This will in turn be useful in collecting electronic polls, electronic

petitions and other important services through the NaSAM official

website and the students social Network. 

4.1.4. 

Malawi Students Social NetworkThis shall be a social network functioning just like Facebook or other famous

social networks with an exception that it shall only be used by students in

colleges/Universities in Malawi. The authorization shall be the Students Mail. The

network shall also host group forums and pages from campus newsletters, student

organizations and societies and other students’ groups of common interest. The

network shall achieve bringing under one virtual platform, all students studying in

tertiary education institutions in Malawi.

4.1.5.  NaSAM Weekly Newsletter

To increase the level of publicity and to keep the student community and the

general public in track of all events taking place within and around NaSAM, the

Information and Publications Department shall release an electronic newsletter

each week which shall constitute articles from different parts of NaSAM namely:

  Student Unions

  Associated Organizations

  NaSAM Offices

  NaSAM Departments

  NaSAM Directorates

  Initiatives in NaSAM

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  NaSAM Partners

Such information shall also be carried in the NaSAM Official pages on different

social networks across the internet e.g. Facebook, Twitter, The Malawi Students

Social Network, YouTube etc.

4.1.6.  The Scholar’s Point Magazine 

This shall be a publication incorporating a number of articles written by students

across the country communicating their views, concerns and suggestions in

national development and the development of tertiary education in Malawi.

4.1.7.  The Road to Success Series

NaSAM sees a need to enhance the information system in order to ensure fair

access to education. Information about schools should be accessible to everyone

easily. Secondary school students should know through all portals of information

be it radios, newspapers, websites, magazines or books the opportunities they can

pursue after finishing secondary school education.

The Information and Publications Department shall hence invest in a wide

information and publication project listing and describing all institutions of higher

education in Malawi, how students can enroll in those institutions and the career

paths they can follow with their choices of programs provided in the institutions.

The information shall be broke out through the following media

  Magazines

  A Reference book 

  Leaflets

  On the NaSAM website

4.2.  THE ACADEMIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE

The directorate of academic affairs shall in the year 2012/2013 be committed to ensuring

that the academic welfare of students in colleges and universities is upheld. Not only that,

the academic affairs directorate shall also commit itself to programs that shall employ

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technological systems in providing a conducive academic environment to students. The

directorate shall also speak and suggest interventions on the development of education of 

all levels in Malawi in general. The following are the activities lined up by the

directorate:

4.2.1.  NaSAM Brainiax Challenge

This shall be an inter-college quiz whereby students studying similar programs

but in different colleges/universities in Malawi shall compete to sharpen and share

knowledge.

4.2.2.  The Malawi Students and Stakeholders Conference

The Malawi Students and Stakeholders Conference shall be a gathering of 

students in a given region of Malawi which shall empower students to voice out

their concerns on Malawian tertiary education and suggest ways in which these

problems can be mitigated. Different stakeholders including government officers,

lecturers, college/university administrators, NGOs/CSO’s, International

Organizations and the media shall be invited to the conference.

4.2.3.  The Free Internet Campaign

Realizing the importance of the internet in providing up-to-date information and

academic materials easy to access than the libraries, the Academic Affairs

Directorate shall campaign for free and upgraded internet services in all colleges

in Malawi. The campaign shall be carried through adverts, posters, T-Shirts/Golf 

Shirts, polls and petitions across all colleges in Malawi.

4.2.4.  The Electronic Resources Initiative

The Electronic Resources Initiative shall be a web-based database type of software which shall be used to index or bookmark links to the web resources

(pages) available on the internet for an individual subject in all colleges in

Malawi.

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Items in the system will be presented in categories of Web articles, Journal

articles, Encyclopedia articles, free e-books, Software, and hopefully lecturer

Wiki (This will depend on agreement with lecturers to add a wiki on their course

page). The website will have navigation from college level through faculty,

course, and year to a specific subject in that year. The landing page will be a

specific course. In the course, the different categories of links to web resources for

that course will be listed. Students shall engage themselves in submitting links to

their courses at their college which shall then be moderated by the system and by

human moderators.

4.3.  THE RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE

The Directorate of Religious Affairs shall be committed to ensuring that students’

religious rights are upheld in all institutions of higher learning. It shall work to remove

religious restrictions in colleges and to ensure that ongoing activities of colleges and

universities do not contravene tradition activities of religious denominations. The

directorate shall also commit itself to charging students’ religious gatherings to doing

works of charity and help to the needy. Apart from ongoing negotiations and

consultations, the directorate shall engage itself in the following initiatives:

4.3.1.  Scholars Alms

This shall be a charitable arm of NaSAM run by the Religious Affairs Directorate

with the aim of organizing students’ religious organizations to making a large

scale national student’s charity event. Each students’ religious gathering in all

colleges in Malawi shall appoint a Scholars Alms Ambassador who shall organize

a day of charity giving in form of monitory offering at their gathering. The money

shall be collected and organized into one fund which shall be used to buy a high

valued item to be donated e.g. hospital beds and mattresses, wheel chairs etc.

Other well-wishers shall also be approached to add more funding to the event.

There shall be two major donations nationally while other donations shall be

organized regionally as well as at district level.

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4.4.  THE STUDENTS WELFARE AND DEVELOPMENT DIRECTORATE

The Students Development and Welfare Directorate shall oversee all concerns of student

welfare in colleges. The directorate realizes that our nation needs creative students who

are able to devise solutions to real life situations in the Malawian communities. The

directorate envisions a generation of students who have a greater understanding of the

problems rocking our nation, who in response shall come up with creative ways of 

solving such problems and create new systems and new wealth through entrepreneurship

on which our nation shall be built upon. The directorate shall hence commit itself to

building skills such as entrepreneurial and technological skills to achieve the NaSAM

goals. The directorate has hence lined up several programs to achieve such:

4.4.1.  Entrepreneurship Seminars

These shall be regional gatherings of students (especially final year students) to

learn entrepreneurship skills. The directorate shall partner with trainers to

organize such events in the 3 (or politically 4) regions of Malawi.

4.4.2.  The Student Volunteers Community

This shall be a vibrant community of students willing to make a change and

develop our nation. Willing students all over tertiary institutions in Malawi shall

register to join the community. The community shall engage in development

works according to their courses of study and areas of interest. The Directorate of 

Students Welfare and Development shall travel in search of available works in

Offices of District Commissioners, DHO’s, Ministry of Local Government,

Ministry of Health, Ministry of Labor, NGO’s like World Vision and Save the

Children, the National AIDS Commission etc.

Students shall benefit from the program in terms of having T-Shirts/Golf Shirts of identity (written “I Am a Student Volunteer”), ID Cards, Free CV processing

endorsed by NaSAM, a Certificate of recognition and Free training sessions in

which they are going to receive certificates at the end. On top of all this shall be

the real experience and understanding that students shall acquire after taking part

in all this.

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4.4.3.  The Malawi Students Creativity Fair

The Fair shall be a competition in which students shall come up with creative

products, ideas, systems, and processes. Different companies shall be approached

to sponsor such event. Companies and other entities shall patronize the event to

sponsor and buy items which have interested them.

4.5.  THE FUNDRAISING AND ECONOMIC AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE

For all the programs listed in this action plan to be coordinated, communicated and

realized, there is need for funds. The Fundraising and Economic Affairs Department shall

commit itself to finding ways in which the organization can generate funds. Among other

things, the directorate shall invest in T-Shirts/Golf Shirts, wrist bands, travel mugs,

calendars and shall take advantage of activities throughout NaSAM to fundraise through

selling items like food, beverages and confectioneries and games and competitions. The

Directorate shall also oversee the running of advertisements in NaSAM publications and

websites.

Apart from just fundraising for the organization, the directorate shall also commit itself 

into coming up with creative ways of ensuring students’ financial welfare. In view of this,

the directorate has lined up the following activities:

4.5.1.  The Student Shopper Card

The Student Shopper Card shall be used by students to access student discounts in

selected shops and service providers across the country. The directorate shall

negotiate with shops, companies and service providers to offer a discount onstudent essential goods and services like food, stationery, computers and computer

accessories, clothes, travel etc. Discounts shall be compared across competing

shops, companies and service providers. The best discounts shall be taken and

advertised to students.

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Students shall buy the Student Shopper Card and activate it for a year of use.

There shall also be ways of controlling abuse of using the card for business

purposes e.g. through preloading it with points that shall eventually come to an

end after purchasing a defined worth of goods and services.

4.5.2.  NaSAM Invest

The Directorate of Fundraising and Economic Affairs shall also oversee all

NaSAM investments through an investment plan. Investments shall aim at

bringing close to students affordable services and goods essential to day-to-day

living. Investments shall include food outlets, stationery shops, printing and

photocopying services and Screen Printing.

4.6.  WOMEN AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE

The Directorate of Women Affairs shall commit itself into looking at the welfare of 

women in tertiary education institutions: issues of gender equality, violence against

female students, sexual harassment etc. However, the directorate also realizes that female

students in colleges and universities are supposed to act as role models to females in the

country and be on the fore-front in the struggles for women emancipation. Hence, the

directorate shall in this year

  Campaign for more intakes of female students into institutions of higher learning

  Campaign for more women in decision making positions as this in some way

affects the welfare of women in all corners of our society including institutions of 

higher learning

  Fight against our society’s ills towards women e.g. gender -based violence

  Fight for Safe Motherhood

  Inspire girls to work hard in their secondary school and high school education and

enroll in tertiary education to achieve more educated women at the level of 

tertiary education

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4.7.  LEGAL AND POLITICAL AFFAIRS DIRECTORATE

In the year 2012/2013, the Directorate of Legal and Political Affairs shall be committed

to formalizing the organization and shall ensure that all the legal frameworks and

documents are in place for the organization to function well. The directorate shall look 

into things like:

  Registering NaSAM under the Registrar General’s Office 

  Registering the organization to CONGOMA and international bodies e.g. the All

Africa Students Union (AASU)

  Overseeing the amendment of the NaSAM constitution and making sure that it is

protected

Apart from all this, the Directorate shall also commit itself into looking at the politics of students unions and ensuring that student leaders

  are protected

  are operating in their legal frameworks

  have developed their leadership skills

  are working harmoniously with their superiors for the benefit of the students

community

The Directorate shall apart from these activities carry out the following programs:

4.7.1.  Student Leaders and Administrators Conference

This shall be an event in which student leaders shall meet with college/university

administrators to confer with each other the best ways in which student unions

can work together with college/university staff in solving problems to avoid

demonstrations, vandalism and campus closures. The two parties shall arrive at an

understanding in a way of a framework in which they shall operate to avoid

student leaders being casualties of student struggles. The parties shall agree on

what they expect from each other as partners in administration.

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4.8.  THE SPORTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTORATE

The Sports and entertainment directorate sees the importance of all students to come

together under one social event to boost unity and cooperation among and between all

students studying in private or public institutions of higher learning. Hence, the

directorate shall commit itself to organizing such events. In the year 2012/2013, the

Sports and Entertainment Directorate shall organize the following programs:

4.8.1.  Scholars Trophy

This shall be a sports event in which campus sports clubs of all colleges and

universities shall compete. Categories of sports shall be football, netball,

volleyball, basketball, athletics, darts and chess.

4.8.2.  Students-Got-Talent Show

The Students-Have-Got-Talent Show shall be an event whereby students

from all colleges/universities in Malawi shall compete in categories of 

entertainment e.g. Dancing, Singing, Beauty Pageants, magic/tricks and

Stand-up comedies/poems.

4.8.3.  Scholars National Heritage Day

This shall be a day set apart in the year to commemorate our Malawian

Cultures. On this day, tertiary students from all over the country shall

come together on a venue where by different aspects of our culture shall

be displayed. There shall be items and performances like dances, poems,

language drama etc. The NaSAM Fundraising Committee shall also put on

sale creative items like hats, zitenje, masks, key holders, mugs etc.

4.9.  INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS AFFAIRS DIRECTORATEThe Directorate of International Students Affairs shall in this year be committed

to collecting and providing information important for both Malawian students

wishing to study outside the country as well as international students wishing to

study in Malawi. The Directorate shall work together with the Information and

Publications Department in publishing such information in the NaSAM Official

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Website and in other NaSAM publications. The directorate shall also organize

such events as student exchange programs with students from colleges outside the

country as well as Malawian students in Diaspora. Apart from this, the Directorate

shall also gather information of and about all Malawian students who are

currently studying abroad and all students from abroad who are studying here in

Malawi. This will enable the Directorate to come up with ways on how the

already existing Student Exchange Programs can accommodate as many exchange

students as possible.

The Directorate has also planned to organize the following program:

4.9.1.  MALAWIAN STUDENT ACHIEVERS PROGRAMME

The Malawian Student Achievers Program shall be an initiative in which final

year students who have scored exceptionally at their respective college/university

shall be awarded a scholarship either locally or abroad to continue their education.

The directorate of International Students Affairs shall reach out to embassies,

international organizations and companies in search for scholarship positions and

funding for these exceptional students.

5.0.  FINANCIAL STRATEGY

 NaSAM’s major source of finance shall be yearly subscriptions of unions as Full Members at

K10, 000.00 per annum and students’ organizations and societies as Associate Members at K5 ,

000.00 per annum. Looking at the vastness of this plan, this amount can only fund a few logistics

which include calling for the subscription itself. Hence, NaSAM shall seek the help of well

wishers and donors to fund the coordination of these programs as the Central Fund and/or to fund

individual activities/programs/initiatives of NaSAM.

6.0.  HUMAN RESOURCE STRATEGYAs a human resource strategy, NaSAM shall ensure that on every program there is a team of 

students working to further the aims of the Student Movement. The organization shall also use

the help of associate members (student organizations and societies) to organize and run certain

projects that fall in their area of interest and they shall be supervised and coordinated by the

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responsible directorate. Directors and deputy Directors shall as much as possible split

responsibilities in the event of simultaneous activities under the same directorate.

7.0.  PUBLICITY AND COORDINATION STRATEGY

Given the vast distances between colleges in the four regions of Malawi, getting all colleges to

know what is going around in NaSAM so that they take an active role would be a huge challenge

but not an impossible one. NaSAM shall as much as possible use technological ways of 

communicating and coordinating information. NaSAM shall use strategies such as

  Communicating through websites, social networks, e-mails, phone calls and SMS.

  Contacts e.g. student leaders, members of special committees and associate organizations

and societies shall have the obligation to post such communication on their campus

notice boards on NaSAM finance which shall be reimbursed later.  Where possible, NaSAM shall use the services of the audio and print media to

communicate information to students.

  Travel shall be used only in extreme conditions.

8.0.  FINAL WORDS

This colorful plan could only be achieved through unity, coordination, help, understanding,

strong will and ambition by all stakeholders in the nation: tertiary education students, all organs

in NaSAM, Non-governmental Organizations, international organizations, embassies,

college/university administrators, companies, business people, the government, as well as all the

peoples of Malawi. Hence, the NaSAM executive calls on all these entities to hold hands for a

better student movement, better standards of tertiary education and development for the

Malawian Nation.

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APPENDIX 1: NaSAM EXECUTIVE

This is to present the names of the newly elected National Scholars Association of Malawi

(NASAM) executive council members. These were elected on the 28 th of September at a national

general conference of student representatives from different institutions of higher learning from

all over Malawi. This group taking over from an interim NASAM Committee becomes the first

Executive council of NASAM. It is this very same group that eventually took the organization to

it’s launch on the subsequent day being SEPTEMBER 29 2012; with Prof Dixie Maluwa

Banda, Director of Higher Education, officially launching the organization on behalf of the

Ministry of Education and thus government.

Table 1: Executive Positions

First Name Last Name Title Post InstitutionALEXANDER MTEMBENUZENI Mr. President UNIMA;

Chancellor

College

MATTHEWS JEMBELEMALA Mr. Vice President MZUNI

MOSES CHALERA Mr. Secretary

General

MZUNI

JULIE-MARIE CHIBEKETE MISS Treasurer UNIMA;

Chancellor

College

PEMPHERO MPHANDE Mr. Publicity andAdministrative

Secretary

UNIMA;College of 

Medicine

Table 2: Directorate positions

First Name Last Name Title Post Institution

OWEN CHIKOTI Mr. Academic Affairs

Director

UNIMA; The

Malawi

Polytechnic

ELLEN MITOLE Miss Religious Affairs

Director

University of 

Livingstonia

PATRICK PHIRI Mr. Legal and

Political Affairs

Director

UNIMA;

Chancellor

College

NATALIA DAMBE Miss Women Affairs

Director

UNIMA; The

Malawi

Polytechnic

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FRANCIS KAPALAMULA Mr. Sports and

Entertainment

Director

Malawi College

of Accountancy,

MCA

BEVERLY LAHER Miss. Student

Development and

welfare Director

UNIMA;

College of 

Medicine

YAMIKANI YAFETI Mr. International

Students Director

MZUNI

MAXWELL MANDA Mr. Fundraising And

Economic Affairs

Director

UNIMA;

Chancellor

College

Table 3: Deputy Directorate positions

First Name Last Name Title Post Institution

MEMORY HANECK Miss Academic Affairs

Director

Don Bosco

Technical

College

FELIX TEMBO Mr. Religious Affairs

Director

Malawi College

Of Health

Sciences

PATIENCE BANDA Miss Legal and

Political Affairs

Director

Nkhoma Nursing

NANCY JERE Miss Women Affairs

Director

UNIMA;

Kamuzu College

of NursingLOVEMORE CHIMPHANDA Mr. Sports and

Entertainment

Director

Salima Technical

College

CHIFUNDO AMIN Miss Student

Development

and welfare

Director

Kamuzu College

of Nursing

HARRY CHIKASAMBA Mr. International

Students Director

UNIMA;

Chancellor

CollegeCHARLES SANJAMA Mr. Fundraising And

Economic Affairs

Director

Malawi College

of Health

Science