Year: 2018

In a bid to deal with climate change, pollution and promote hygienic measures in the country, youths from Zomba city, have embarked on an initiative which is meant to keep the city clean.

YONECO has facilitated the re-admission of 74 children who withdrew from school under its back to school campaign it initiated last year in Ntcheu district District Manager for YONECO in Ntcheu, Sewenthe Mahwayo, confirmed the development saying out of the total, 42 are adolescent girls.

YONECO has extended its reach under Sports for Development Initiative by donating Football and Netball kits to Nawungu Primary School.

Child Labour Elimination Actions for Real Change (CEAR) Project, with funding from Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco Growing (ECLT) Foundation, has handed over three teachers’ houses at Mankhamba Junior Primary School to Ntchisi District Council.

YONECO trained 1 75 out of school girls on how they can make reusable sanitary pads in Mulanje District under the Adolescent Girls and Young Women Project (AGYW) in the month of June. This comes as one major development in the district as government together with other organizations are striving day in and out to…

YONECO Children’s Band was the darling of the crowd on 16 June, 2018 when it performed at a national commemoration event of the Day of the African Child (DAC) that was held at the magnificent Bingu International Convention Centre (BICC) in Lilongwe, Malawi.

YONECO, on June 12 this year joined the rest of the world in commemorating the International Day against Child Labour at a function that was held in Kasungu – one of the top 6 tobacco growing districts in Malawi where child labour is also prevalent.