Month: January 2022

Devastating tropical storm Ana has left many people destitute.  The youth, women and children have been greatly affected in many ways and they are in dire need of various social services. YONECO calls on all well-wishers to support its Helpline Caravans to assist them with psychosocial support, sports and recreational materials, child protection services, prevention…

Majority of Malawians depend on renewable natural resources for their livelihoods. However, failure to sustainably use such life serving resources has led to environmental degradation which has, consequently, decreased the country’s productivity. Currently, a number of efforts are being put in place in order to reverse the situation. However, if the war against environmental degradation…

Stakeholders from Dedza have requested YONECO to scale up its various interventions to all parts of the district citing the great impact which the organization has made in some targeted impact areas under Action for Teen Mothers and Adolescent Girls Project. The Social Welfare Officer for the district, Kapuchi, indicated that there have been a…

International Day of Education is an annual commemoration event that falls on 24 January. The day was set aside by the United Nations General Assembly in 2018 to celebrate the role of education for peace and development. This year marks the fourth commemoration of the International Day of Education and it is being cerebrated under…

In case you missed an interview which MBC TV had with our Executive Director, MacBain Mkandawire, during yesterday’s edition of Good Morning Malawi Programme, here are some of the highpoints; In 2021 alone, YONECO’s Tithandizane Helpline Services received a total of 2, 066 calls on defilement. A study should be commissioned to unearth factors that…

YONECO organized an inception meeting for a two-and-a-half-year SADC Youth Helpline Project which the organization will be implementing in Malawi. The project will enable young people to access specialist counselling services, HIV and AIDS as well as Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) information and referrals to high impact services. The Executive Director of YONECO,…

Young people in Malawi face a number of challenges that prevent them from accessing Sexual Reproductive Health Services (SRH) services like modern contraceptives as well as HIV Testing and counselling (HTC) Services. Long distances to nearest health service delivery points is among the most prominent challenges which young people, especially those who live in rural…

Happy New Year to all readers, supporters and funders of YONECO. We would like to welcome you into the year 2022. If you have made it this far, you should be grateful as 2021 was very eventful but also painful. Therefore, it is important that we should begin this new year with work that will…