SELL PROGRAM
THINK AND CHOOSE
Recent Activities
Ungweru Expands SELL Programme to Central Region
From March 17 to 22, 2026, Ungweru Organisation’s Youth and Development Unit conducted a week-long Sharing Education and Learning for Life (SELL) training in Mponela, Dowa District, equipping volunteer facilitators and catechists for community transformation. The...
Ungweru Organisation Strengthens Student Safety Through Safeguarding Orientation
On 12 March 2026, the organisation hosted a safeguarding orientation session inside Ungweru Hall, bringing together twenty-six new students and an intern for a comprehensive learning experience focused on safety, dignity, and shared responsibility. The session forms...
New Youth Leaders Prepare To Start SELL Programme
From 5–8 March 2026, Ungweru Organisation hosted a transformative training under the Sharing Education and Learning for Life (SELL) Programme, bringing together young adults from communities across the Central Zone to begin their journey as community facilitators. The...
About The project
The SELL programme traces its origins to a programme developed in the north of Nigeria in the 1980’s by Maureen Sheehy, Pauline Connolly and Tommy Hayden. It was first called Ilmin Kowa (Learning for all in the Hausa language) and later in English Shared Education and Learning for Life. Under this name it was taken up by Noel McGeeney and Leo Traynor in 2002 and further developed as a youth formation programme. In 2006 it first went to Ghana and now in 2022 it has come to Malawi
In its thinking and way of working SELL is closely related to various programmes that have existed since the 1970’s in southern and eastern Africa. A general name for them has been Training for Transformation (TFT) and all of them were largely inspired by the Brazilian educationist called Paulo Freire.
The impact
The sharing education and learning for life programme is designed to positively impact on the life of the community through the contributions of young people that are trained in the programme and those that participate in the programs offered by these trained SELL volunteer facilitators. Our Mission states – ‘To reach out to young people as agents of change, inviting them to share their experiences towards making life giving choices; deepening their respect for the earth and building families of justice, freedom and peace.’
From participants’ feedback we know we are touching lives positively. Attitudinal change is difficult to measure but we are convinced many young adults who encounter the programme do choose to develop a new attitude to life and to others one that involves greater understanding and tolerance for this reason we see the programme as an integrated peace-building work. It lifts our hearts to see prejudice stereotyping and bias being addressed by the participants and to be part of the dialogue that happens as young men and women reflect on how traditions can at times be enslaving. The evaluation forms filled confirm that those who take part do receive help and enjoy the participative learning approach.
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