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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…

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…

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)…

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…

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…

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…

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…

A number of parents and guardians around Tengani Trading Centre in Nsanje District reported to YONECO that their children are spending much time watching films in various video showrooms to the extent that they get home late at night and some even abscond from school. It is against this back ground that YONECO collaborated with…

As cholera continues outspreading around in some districts acrosss Malawi, YONECO programmes staff are also tirelessly working around the clock in a bid to halt the spread of the disease. Thus, YONECO has been conducting Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) session at community level since March, 2022 when the Ministry of Health declared a cholera…

Alcohol and substance abuse usually cause an array of challenges including mental and physical health problems among the abusers. Subsequently, the society has its share of socioeconomic problems as well which directly emanate from the continuous need to deal with the various consequences of alcohol and drug abuse. Heartrendingly, many young people fail to successfully…