Year: 2021

Wishing our 5 Adolescent Girls and Young Women (AGYWs) all the best as they start their attachments at one of the best hotels in Malawi – Hotel Victoria. The five are among the 40 AGYWs whom we offered scholarships to study a customized course in hotel operations at Malawi Institute of Tourism (MIT). We are…

YONECO registered for the Global Giving Accelerator 2021 to get permanent memberships of the online donation platform to raise funds for the work we do. We are required to raise at least $5000 (about MK4,000,000) from a minimum of 40 different individuals domestically and internationally for our project Protect, Empower and Educate 1800 Girls in…

Greetings for September 2021. This comes a few days after a Youth Multisectoral Thematic Meeting that was organized with financial support from Palladium from 26 to 27 August, 2021. We would like to dedicate part of the monthly discussions to that meeting and the observations being made in the country in relation to youth development.…

Today, we would like to introduce you to our three-year-old little genius, Annie Andreya. Annie is one of the children who have been enrolled at a Community-based Childcare Centre (CBCC) Centre which we established five years ago at Senzani in the area of Sub-Traditional Authority (STA) Ntcheu District. Annie’s mother does not hide how proud…

Today is International Literacy Day. This year, the day is being commemorated under the theme Literacy for human-centred recovery: Narrowing the digital devide.

Today, a total of 10 female Adult Literacy Leaners attended an Economic Empowerment session which our team organized in Mangochi district. The aim of the session was to equip the women with entrepreneurship skills in order to enhance their socio-economic welfate. The women have further been equipped with skills in baking and cookery.

Through our office in Ntcheu district, we have trained female prisoners in production of reusable sanitary pads. The activity was organised in response to a call by Ntcheu Prison authorities who requested for support towards the procurement of re-usable sanitary pads for the female inmates As such, our team employed a more sustainable approach by…

The Executive Director of YONECO, MacBain Mkandawire, has joined various stakeholders in youth development at a two-day Multisectoral Youth Thematic Meeting which is currently underway at Sun ‘n’ Sand Holiday Resort in Mangochi district. The meeting has been organized by HP+ in order to provide a platform for stakeholders to discuss game-changing strategies on how…

YONECO has trained journalists from various media houses in the country on countering COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation.

Yesterday, YONECO in collaboration with Chimbota Community Development Organization conducted an evening screening of Mbeu Yosintha (Seeds of Change) Film at Bwerero Ground in the area of Sub-Traditional Authority (STA) Mndola in Nkhata Bay district.