Urban Music People (UMP) is pleased to announce it has partnered with Fashion 4 Change Global Malawi (F4C) to campaign for planting of 1 million trees across Malawi.

Fashion 4 Change has organised an event to take place on November 28 at Golden Peacock in Blantyre from 7 o’clock to 11:30 pm.

Kelly Kay and budding artist Rashley will give live performances as fashion and music go hand in hand. Tickets for the event are K15,000 and K10,000 which will go into buying 15,000 and 10,000
trees respectively.

With the partnership, UMP Awards nominees will be announced at the Fashion 4 Change event.

The 2020 edition will be a blended event to be held virtually on December 19.

The nominations announcement segment will be hosted by Nicole Kamwendo, of Capital Radio.

This year nominees will get Nomination Certificates, another fresh idea from UMP.

Khumbo Finto, UMP Project Manager said, “We are happy to join forces with Fashion 4 Change again this year, we support their cause for environmental sustainability. We share the mission to promote
Malawi fashion sector through fashion awards and their fashion event.”

Christina Mabvuto, Public Relations Officer: “We partnered with UMP because we all share the same objectives to promote arts, culture and music. We have organised an event that is happening on
28th November, 2020 at Golden Peacock in Blantyre. Our main objective is to plant 1million trees across Malawi in areas highly affected with deforestation and create awareness in schools and communities for people to plant trees.”

She continued, “We are young advocates in Malawi, Africa, who are passionate about art and bringing about a change in our world today through fashion. We recognize that the world faces many challenges and as art enthusiast we take an initiative to better the world through the global language of fashion and music etc.”