Growing Local talents to take charge of their own initiated innovative activities in rural areas is the most recent developed approach in Zambia if not Africa at large.
This recent approach is associated with a high amount of criticism from professionals who only believe that best performance can only come from a college or university graduate despite their performance.
As opposed to this belief, MachaWorks local talents are secondary school graduates who have been mentored for at least the period of 2 years. After the mentor-ship period, a local talent can perform wonders as experienced in our MachaWorks approach.
Apart from mature performance, a local talent has managed to find solutions to problems affecting his/her rural communities.
Iam happy to see that local talents have done a lot in resource limited environment; first and foremost they are committed to stay in their own community, secondly they endure when they are faced with lots of challenges, thirdly, it is not about how much salary they make but it is about how much development they would like to see in their own communities, fourthly, after innovations have been created, professionals are invited to participate and be part of the developments.
I therefore encourage professionals and non professional to encourage local talents for the value they add to rural development where few or no university graduate would like to go.
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