Month: August 2022

This week, we intensified our Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) engagement sessions with in and out-of- school young people around Ntaja in Machinga district amidst rising cases of unintended teen pregnancies in the area. During the sessions, young people indicated that frequent stock out of SRHR commodities and lack of consistent information among young…

Small things matter in enhancing social economic development of the youth, women and children. Happiness Chanunkha, our district facilitator establishes Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs) in Zomba to empower women socially and economically. These groups are also avenues for discussing parenting issues, Gender Based Violence (GBV), HIV and AIDS, as well as personal growth…

Children experience insidious forms of violence in the places they are supposed to be most protected. No matter the circumstance, every child has the right to be protected from violence, exploitation and abuse. Protection starts from letting the children know their rights and places where they could report all forms of abuse. As such, YONECO…

Utale is among the areas in Balaka district that register high rates of Gender Based Violence (GBV). Most of the registered cases are perpetrated against women and girls and they include forced child marriages, sexual harassment and child sexual exploitation among others. Thus, it is against this backdrop that YONECO conducted a GBV awareness session…

Malawi’s literacy rate is the forth is the SADC region and the level is even lower among women who live in rural parts of the country.  Thus, in an effort to ensure that women are fully participating in economic activities, YONECO has been introducing adult literacy programmes. This year, YONECO has established an additional adult…

Two weeks after introducing a new project called ‘Connect Malawi Plus: Action for Adolescent Girls and Young Women’ to Lilongwe District Health Management Team (DHMT), YONECO has presented a report on the progress that has been made during the inception phase of the project to Lilongwe District AIDS Coordination Committee (DAC). In response to the…

Today, #YONECO conducted a Gender Based Violence (GBV) awareness session at Kapeni Primary school in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Kapeni in Blantyre. The session was conducted to help the leaners understand various forms of GBV to ensure that they are able to prevent and report such cases. As YONECO, we strongly believe that…

The link between economic empowerment of women and reduced incidences of Gender Based Violence (GBV) is widely acknowledged. Perpetrators of GBV usually take advantage of vulnerabilities like poverty and women’s overreliance on men. As such, economic empowerment of women reduces the susceptibility to GBV and this is why perpetrators of GBV against women and girls…

Men are key partners in the process of transforming harmful sociocultural norms and practices that perpetuate Gender Based Violence (GBV) in the society. In Mulanje district, men have also bemoaned that they are continuously left out in the process of devising mechanisms for ending the vice. The men expressed these sentiments this during an engagement…