Author: Lemani Makina

Happy New Year to all our supporters, partners and more importantly our beneficiaries. As YONECO, we cherish your support and the fact that our masters; the youth, women and children have the trust and confidence that we will provide the essential services. We have cherished many comments and posts that have shown us that we…

Happy new year! Let’s make 2023 a Gender-Based Violence free year.

As the year is getting closer to the end, today, a 13-member Chisomo Village Savings and Loans Association (VSLA) from Chinamwali Township in Zomba has closed the 2022 circle in style. The group was established in 2021 as a way of empowering women who have no access to formal loans to save and invest in…

Mother Groups are community-based structures which promote girl child education by helping girls to remain in school and complete their education as well as providing age-appropriate Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) information. In addition to this, mother groups are also instrumental in encouraging girls who dropped out of school because of child marriages or pregnancy…

More than a quarter of Malawi population is aged between 10 and 19 while 50% of the country’s total populace is claimed by the youth. This is the group that will also shoulder the impact of all the actions and decisions that are done today on issues pertaining to climate change. It is against this…

Over the years, the effects of climate change which include drought and short rainfall periods have led to perennial hunger in many parts of Malawi. Consequently, community members around wildlife protected areas have resorted to poaching and encroachment in nearby national parks and game reserves as a coping mechanism. Thus, YONECO is implementing various interventions…

According to data from YONECO’s Tithandizane Helpline Services, Gender Based Violence (GBV) cases tend to spike during the festive season due to a number of factors including substance abuse and overindulgence in alcohol. The available information shows that GBV is mainly perpetrated against women and girls. Thus, the Tithandizane Helpline Services Department has embarked on…

Parent Child Communication (PCC) is there to help parents become knowledgeable and comfortable as sex educators. Good PCC around sexuality helps adolescents to make informed decisions pertaining to their Sexual Reproductive Health (SRH), consequently this leads to an overall reduction in the number of SRH challenges which young people face. It is against this background…