Why a Social Enterprise?

The funding landscape in Malawi, and globally, is highly competitive and laden with donor fatigue. It is getting tougher for start-up non-profits, like ours, to find the money to do the important stuff we want to do. But where there is a challenge, there is an opportunity to innovate. Thats why we have created BASEflow Services (a commercial company registered under the number MBRS1056665 in the Malawi Business Registration Database), which will provide a portfolio of services to Malawi’s water sector, and the general public at large, as part of diversifying our income base. My vision for these services is not to make a profit, which will go in shareholders' pockets, but to fully – 100% - cover BASEflow’s overhead costs. This will reduce the burden of overheads on future proposal budgets for our non-profit work so that every donor penny goes directly to the rural communities who needs it most. Can you imagine 'an overhead-free' proposal budget? We do!