Tennis star Rodger Federer to visit Malawi

July 14, 2015 Chancy Namadzunda – Nyasa Times Be the first to comment

Tennis superstar Rodger Federer will on Monday  visit Malawi to launch Lundu Community-Based Childcare Centre among other things.

Roger Federer Foundation and Action Aid Malawi launched a ten-year initiative to improve substantively early childhood education in Malawi
Roger Federer Foundation and Action Aid Malawi launched a ten-year initiative to improve substantively early childhood education in Malawi

ActionAid country director Martha Khonje said the Swiss tennis star, who will be accompanied  by  Minister of Gender, Children, Disability and Social Welfare Patricia Kaliati will hold a news conference soon after arrival at Kamuzu International on Monday July 20.

Federer is president of the Rodger Federer Foundation, which supports the implementation of ActionAid’s comprehensive and satellite early childhood development programme in districts of Chitipa, Ntchisi, Nsanje, Rumphi, Machinga and Lilongwe.

The programme has funding of $13.5 million [MK6.1 billion] running for a 10-year period. The programme started in 2011

Since its inception, the 14 000 children have benefitted from higher quality of early learning. The next phase of the programme aims at constructing 18 more preschools to ensure that 37 000 children aged 3-5 years have access
to Early Childhood services.

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