Our Background

Revolution Human Aid and Transparency Initiative (REHAAT-INITIATIVE), was founded as a community-based organization (CBO) in the city of Blantyre in the year 2010 serving the communities of Mbayani Township. In its early years, the organization focused mainly on reforestation by raising nurseries of trees and distributing them to communities, HIV/AIDS awareness and offering trainings in end user computing to community members. After seeing the need to expand, the organization registered as a full non-governmental organization (NGO) under Trust Incorporation Act in 2014. This upgrade expanded the mandate of organization from serving a specific community to having the mandate to serve the entire Malawi. Overtime, the headquarters of the organization moved from Blantyre in the southern region to Mzuzu City in the northern region of Malawi. For close to 5 years, the organization had put much focus on thematic areas of Education, ICT training program, Women/girl empowerment, Human Rights and Governance, and Environment and Climate Change.

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Currently, the organization serves the catchment area of Mzimba District particularly Mzimba North and Mzuzu City. The organization’s programmes have so far been supported with grants from CIVICUS Global Alliance, United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through World Connect, National AIDS Commission (NAC) among others.

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The organization is in a number networks of organizations such as Malawi-Scotland Partnership (MaSP), NGO Coalition on Child Rights (NGOCCR), CIVICUS, Mzuzu District Education Network among others.

 

The following have been the organizations major achievements:

Economically empowering the youths through computer training program. Since 2010, the organization has tirelessly offered computer end user training to over 1000 youths for economic and educational purposes.

Supporting the livelihoods activities of rural horticulture farmers.  Since 2019, the organization has been supporting rural horticulture farmers in Lusangazi area in north Mzimba by supporting them with farm inputs, equipment, trainings in modern farming technologies and a response to COVID-19. This support has been made possible with financial support from United States Agency for International Development (USAID) through World Connect.

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The organization has also promoted the rights of the socially-exclude people by being one of the major mouth-pieces of oppressed people. Through a financial support from CIVICUS, the organization facilitated a dialogue to get input from socially-excluded group to feed into the 2019 State of Civil Society on the globe. The organization has implemented a number of initiatives at the grassroots level to safeguard human rights and promote good governance.