Month: June 2025

World Day against Child Labour falls on 12 June. The Day brings together governments, employers and workers organizations, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and people from around the world to highlight the plight of child labourers and what can be done to help them. Child labour is a crime in Malawi. Please report such cases by calling…

The Government of Malawi acknowledges the significance of Early Childhood Development (ECD) and promotes access to a minimum of 12 years of formal education for all citizens. In a bid to compliment Malawi government’s efforts towards sustainable national development, YONECO has ECD Programmes in 16 districts across country. Quality early childhood education lays the foundation…

Today, Andrew Winkelman, the US Embassy Political and Economic Counselor who is also the Deputy US Ambassador to Malawi, visited the YONECO Head Office in Zomba. Top on the agenda was for him to understand YONECO’s perspective on youth in relation to the political and economic situation in the country. The two parties discussed how…

YONECO participated in the third and final round of cash transfers that was facilitated by Eagles Relief in Chikwawa district under the Malawi Drought Response Project, which is funded by ECHO through CARE Malawi. The initiative aims to provide critical support to vulnerable groups, particularly the elderly, expectant mothers, and lactating women, who have been…

Dear readers, Welcome to our June 2025 newsletter. June 2025 means we are half way through the year and it is possibly high time we reflected on the challenges and opportunities after 6 months at personal, organizational, national and global level. We need to seriously rethink development and global issues. We need to ask ourselves…