The Foundation for Girls Leadership (F4GL) has been commended for equipping girls with skills to develop innovative solutions to gender-based violence (GBV) in their communities. Lilongwe District Assistant Youth Officer Jessica Mwafulirwa praised the organisation’s efforts on Thursday, on the sidelines of a two-day co-creation workshop for girls held at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and […]
The Catholic Archdiocese of Lilongwe has warned that Malawi will remain trapped in a cycle of poverty unless the country confronts the rising incidence of child marriage and the growing number of children leaving school before completing their education. Auxiliary Bishop Vincent Mwakhwawa made the remarks on Sunday at St Anne’s Guilleme Parish in Mchinji, […]
Traditional leaders across Malawi’s Yao community have made a powerful pledge to transform the lives of 75 vulnerable girls, announcing they will receive vital financial support to continue their education as part of this year’s Chiwanja Cha A Yao cultural festival. The girls, drawn from 15 primary schools across Salima, will be helped to make […]
In a quest to end early Marriages and promote education in Ntchisi District, a number of Chiefs headed by Traditional authority Kasakula have taken responsibility in using the institutions of Gule Wamkulu to enforce school attendants and end child marriages in their areas. Once it is verified that child marriage has taken place, the chiefs […]
First Lady Monica Chakwera has encouraged young girls in Mangochi who dropped out of school for one reason or another that all is not lost and should pick up from where they left. The First Lady challenged the young women, most of them teenagers, at Chikoko Bay State Lodge on Christmas Eve when she hosted […]
World Vision Malawi has reaffirmed its commitment to ensure that girls in the country have access to quality education and that they are protected from various abuses including forced marriages and sexual abuses. Speaking during the commemoration of the International Day of the Girl Child at Mitondo Primary School in traditional authority Chitekwere in Lilongwe […]
First Lady Monica Chakwera on Friday urged all stakeholders to stand and protect a girl child by giving her equal opportunities to education in order for the latter to have a brighter future. She made the appeal during the commemoration of the International Day of a Girl Child held at Mitondo Primary School in the […]
Former president Joyce Banda has called for an emphasis to be placed on girl children. in a quest to see them back to school after the devastating effects of Covid-19 pandemic. Banda was speaking at a virtual conversation organised by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in commemoration of the International Day […]
First Lady Monica Chakwera has said she is committed to working with non-government organisations (NGOs) in eliminating child marriages in the country. Chakwera made the commitment Friday evening in Lilongwe at a high level dinner Plan International Malawi organised in commemoration of the International Day of the Girl under the theme ‘My voice, our equal […]
Paramount Chief Kawinga, who is on a tour of all Yao Chiefs areas to appreciate the challenges young girls have faced as a result of closure of schools following the Covid-19 pandemic, said he is shocked that his jurisdiction alone has reported 400 teen pregnancies. Paramount Kawinga said this at Mlozi Primary School after touring Senior […]
Stakeholders in Mzimba feel child marriages have no space in the district and a taskforce has been mandated to withdraw all under aged girls from such marriages to allow the girls and boys to go back to school. This is being implemented where Khosolo Women’s Forum in Traditional Authority Khonsolo in Mzimba Khosolo in partnership […]
First Lady Monica Chakwera has become the new “More than a Mother” Malawi ambassador of Merck Foundation, the international philanthropic organisation, replacing the country’s immediate past first lady Gertrude Mutharika and has committed to supporting school girls in the country. The “Merck More than a Mother” initiative aims to empower infertile women through access to […]
Balaka District Commissioner (DC) Emmanuel Bambe has lamented escalating levels of poverty and destitution, which he said are negatively contributing to rising cases of school dropouts, early and child marriages in the district. Bambe made the remarks on Friday when he closed a four-day training targeting executives and members of Girls Empowerment Club at St. […]
‘Make hay while the sun shine’: Girls in traditional authorities (T/As) Maseya and Ngabu in Chikwawa may live to regret not utilising an opportunity presented to them. Stephanos Foundation, a non-governmental organisation operating in the two areas, introduced a Goat for Girls Project in 2014 to empower girls in poor households to attain education. Through […]
Trending on social media community of Malawians has been photos of Chawezi Sibongile Banda, daughter of Malawi’s former Finance Minister, the late Aleke Kadonamphani Banda, well known as ‘Chacha’ who has been moving in Malawi with hordes of bodyguards. Nyasa Times caught up with the United States-based wealthy woman who explains the reasons behind the security […]
Faces of Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Malawi Chapter president, Theresa Ndanga and first indigenous Malawian lady pilot captain, Yolanda Kaunda have been painted as murals on the walls of a newly-constructed 120-bed girls hostel for Khwalala Community Day Secondary School in remote Mulanje. This was an idea hatched by donors of the construction […]
An education expert, Limbani Eliya Nsapato, has faulted the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology following its release of a second selection list of pupils to various secondary schools across the country, saying it has disadvantaged the girl child. Nsapato, who is team leader for Edukans International (Malawi Branch), has since hastened to advise that […]
A grouping of Sons and Daughters from Namitambo in Chiradzulu South Constituency, who reside in different parts of the country and contribute funds towards meeting the development needs of their community, have launched a Girl Child Education Support for 115 needy students. Trending under the name ‘Zakwathu Ku Namitambo’, the grouping has, within three months […]