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Under-five children are at a higher risk of becoming malnourished in the aftermath of the heavy rains and consequent floods that affected about 15 districts across Malawi due to Cyclone Idai.

YONECO has deployed its helpline caravans to the areas that have been affected by Cyclone Idai in Malawi.

The Senior Programmes Manager for Simavi which is funding a project a called Marriage No child’s Play visited the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Zulu in Mchinji where she appreciated a number of innovative interventions that are being used in the fights against child marriage.

YONECO Drop-in-Centre (DIC) which is situated at Chinamwali Township in Zomba received a number of teaching and learning materials for its Early Child Development (ECD) Centre from Partners in Action for Sustainable Development (PASD).

Mchinji Police Station has awarded a certificate of recognition to YONECO for its untiring efforts towards the protection of youth, women and children in the district.

The Programme Manager for YONECO, Wezzie Mtonga Kamphale, made a presentation on how YONECO’s Toll free Helplines are contributing towards preventing and responding to Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) in Malawi at the 63rd Commission of the Status of Women (CSW)  in New York, USA.  In her presentation, Kamphale highlighted that helplines are an…

Chiefs from the area of Traditional Authority (T/A) Makanjira in Mangochi district have cautioned their subjects against hiding behind culture to marry off their children who are below the legal marriage age in Malawi. The chiefs made the appeal during a Community Dialogue Meeting on Child Marriage which YONECO organised in the area. The assembly…

A case that was reported through YONECO Toll free Child Helpline in May of 2017 concerning a catholic priest from Zomba who defiled and impregnated a 15-year-old primary school leaner, has been concluded with a 17 year-jail sentence to the offender.