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YONECO has intensified the use sports as a tool for promoting children’s rights and welfare. This year, YONECO has introduced on sports for social change interventions at Soche Hill Football ground where a total of 52 children are participating in the activities. Through the sessions, YONECO is engaging the young participants on rights and their…

A few decades ago, shopping baskets were a must when going out for shopping until plastic bags came in as their replacement. However, some decades of heavy use and reckless disposal of plastics has led to severe environmental damage.   Thus, on 13 January, 2023, YONECO and various stakeholders in Ntcheu district organized a cleanup…

On 10 January, 2023, YONECO presented issues that are negatively impacting on children’s education around Bumba Zone in Rumphi district during a meeting that was attended by various education stakeholders and authorities in the district. The issues were presented before the Primary Education Advisor (PEA), members of various Parents Teachers Associations, Mother Groups and School…

Ntcheu District Social Welfare Office has supported our Early Childhood Development (ECD) Centre with 40 kilogrammes of fortified soya enriched flour. The donation will contribute towards enhancing the nutritional status of the leaners at the facility. YONECO opened the ECD centre around Ntcheu Boma in 2018 to, among other things, create a safe, nurturing and…

Cholera has claimed slightly over 700 lives in Malawi since the first case was reported on 7 August, 2022. This current outbreak has been described by health authorities as the worst since 2002. Cumulatively, a total of 21, 024 cases have been confirmed in 26 of the total 28 districts of the country. Thus, YONECO…

Young people need access to accurate and comprehensive sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) information in order to make informed decisions. It is against this background that YONECO conducted an SRHR awareness session at Chulu Community Day Secondary School in Kasungu district. The session was attended by a total of 180 students (120 girls…

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…