On 29 October our Officers in Rumphi conducted a career guidance and counselling session at Chankhomi Community Day Secondary School. The session was aimed at helping students to set up realistic goals in order to fulfill their aspirations. The participants were urged to remain in school and resist negative peer pressure. 250 students attended the…
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On 26th October, 2022, Malawi joined various African countries during a one-day hybrid meeting that was aimed at creating awareness on Internet Universality Indicators. A total of 20 invited participants from Malawi attended the meeting of which some convened at Amaryllis Hotel in Blantyre while others directly joined through Zoom from various locations across the…
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Positive parenting is key in ensuring that young people are able to successfully transition into adulthood. Thus, YONECO works with women from rural parts of Mangochi district in a bid to promote positive parenting. Chiwaula Women’s Group is one of the vibrant community parenting forums which YONECO established in the area of Traditional Authority (T/A)…
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A good number of men around Mangochi town earn a living as Taxi Bicycle Operators (TBOs) business (locally known as Kabaza) around the town to make a living. The work of Kabaza operators involves a lot of travelling within the town and around its townships without fixed schedules. This automatically places the TBOs into the…
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Promotion Early Childhood Development (ECD) is one of YONECO’s strategic interventions under Child Development and Protection Programme. Among other benefits, ECD activities help to create a child’s foundation for learning, enhances child protection and help to promote good health among children. Over the years, YONECO has been facilitating the establishment of ECD centres in rural…
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The impact of climate change has brought about a number of diverse effects on the welfare of people at community level especially among women and girls in Low Income Countries (LICs) like Malawi. Thus, in a bid to prevent further environmental degradation, YONECO conducted a sensitization meeting with community members at Njonjo Village, Group Village…
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Today, our team in Rumphi district conducted an awareness session on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) at Jata Private Primary School in Rumphi district. The session was aimed at ensuring that children are aware of various forms of SGBV in a bid to ensure that they should report such issues when they occur. It is…
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Today, our team in Ntcheu district conducted an awareness session on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) with community members at Eneya in Ntcheu district. The session was aimed at promoting healthy living and health seeking behaviour (HSB) among community members. Participants were made aware of general signs and symptoms of prevalent NCDs in Malawi like diabetes, high…
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The Executive Director (ED) of YONECO, MacBain Mkandawire, attended the African Union Meeting on food security and nutrition that was held on the 10 October 2022 at African Union Head Quarters in Adis Ababa, Ethiopia. The main objective of the meeting was to lobby African Governments to put in place measures that should address issues…
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My name is Larah Mbewe, currently in my final year at The University of Malawi (UNIMA), Pursuing Bachelor of Arts Media for Development. I joined YONECO on the 29th of August 2022 as an Intern in the Media and Communications Department so that I can gain some knowledge and experience in this field and other…
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