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Save the Children Malawi has launched 100 days of action as one way of bringing in the children to school as Covid-19 has hit badly in the country. Speaking ....
NU Children s Parley Wants CDF Bursary Back to Min of Gender Children s Parliament in Ntcheu has resolved that the school bursary scheme which currently is being controlled through the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) should revert back to the Ministry of Gender as deserving needy students are not benefiting from the current arrangement. One of the young legislators, 14-year-old Naison Mayankho claims he is failing to pursue his form 1 studies at Robert Laws Secondary School in Dowa. The current arrangement is not favoring needy students. Politicians have their own interests hence they leave out deserving students during selection, Mayankho claimed. Ntcheu District Social Welfare Officer, Rodwell Chunga says the resolution made if adopted by legislators will go a long way in addressing challenges in the selection of needy students for bursaries. ....
Ntcheu district health office says it has registered at least 5,000 teen pregnancies in 2020, which is a sharp increase from about 1, 200 in the previous year. Director of Health and Social Services for Ntcheu Dr. Stephen Macheso attributes the increase to the Covid-19 pandemic. Dr. Macheso adds that the numbers were registered in 24 health centers out of 39 facilities the district has and called for partners’ intervention to help reduce the trend. Meanwhile, Save the Children Malawi with funding from Save the Children Italy, compelled by the alarming figures, has trained 30 youths from four Traditional Authorities in Ntcheu to act as community based distribution agents to help address the challenge of teen pregnancies. ....
Save the Children Malawi is set to implement a child reintegration project as a way of decongesting Child Protection Institutions (CCI) in Blantyre District in the wake of Covid-19. Save the Children Child Protection Coordinator, Daisy Chitimbe told the Districtâs Protection Cluster Committee on Friday that the project would target all the 36 CCIs the district has. She said with support from United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), they mainly plan to follow up on children that were re-integrated to their families when the pandemic had first been recorded in the country as the processes were done in a hurry due to panic by relevant authorities. ....
How we re supporting children like Lela in Malawi Rhoda lives in the south-eastern Zomba district of Malawi with her three children. Her four year old daughter, Lela was severely underweight for years. Like many in the community, poor crop harvests and a lack of education around nutrition, Rhoda couldn’t always feed her children enough food. Rhoda, with her daughter Lela at their home in Zomba District, Malawi “Before, Lela was malnourished, because I didn’t know how to prepare food for the children,” says Rhoda. How a community - based programme changed everything However, after the introduction of an innovative community-based nutrition programme, everything changed for Rhoda and her family. ....