Facebook winds up Community Leadership Circles programme in Blantyre

By Bester Kayaye

Facebook on Sunday, February 9,2020 wrapped up its Community Leadership Circles (CLC) program, an initiative aimed at uniting social media administrators, in Blantyre.

The program offered opportunity to local admins of Facebook groups, pages or events to connect and share knowledge.

CLC Blantyre lead Frank Kamanga said the goal of the program was to build stronger communities by supporting local leaders online and offline and to strengthen their role in the world.”

“The program provided the highly involved administrators the opportunity to share their best practices and participate in leadership development meetings,” he said.

Kamanga also said the program has helped local young entrepreneurs to expand their marketing base as they were taught on how to run digital adverts to reach out to Global audience through the meet-ups.

“The platform has proven to be an efficient and cost effective means of disseminating business information, and over 200 local entrepreneurs in Blantyre have benefitted from the program”.

Anna Malewezi, Founder of a local enterprise AG Malaika and beneficiary from the program, hailed the initiative for creating a platform to discover other innovative ways of advertising various enterprises through the social site, as well as networking avenue it brought about.

“The program has opened a new window for us especially startups to maximize our profits and boost our capital through cost-effective means of marketing our products and services, as through Facebook we are able to reach out to wider audience”.

She urged young entrepreneurs to make use of the social media site citing saying there is more to be done in Malawi to ensure full utilization of the social media in this digital era.

Malewezi said sound policies to increase Internet accessibility and lower prices for data usage, are among other factors to be considered to enhance social media usage in Malawi.

The CLC program has impacted the lives of over 11-thousand attending admins in 50 countries with nearly 400 in-person events hosted globally.

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