Traditional Authority (T/A) Ngwelero of Zomba District has embarked on educational self-help initiative aimed at raising funds for needy students in the area in order for them to attain secondary school education. According to T/A Ngwelero the idea was conceived after realizing challenges that some of students especially those from poor families were facing in...Read More

There have been alarming rate of girls who have been dropping out of school at Chilipa Community Day Secondary School (CDSS) in Mangochi which 30 have stopped attending classes this academic year alone. The Deputy Head Teacher at the school, Cosmas Jere said they are really affected with the situation and they are in the...Read More

Gender and social welfare officer in northern region has asked responsible personnel to start taking steps in regulating social media as one way of protecting children from different forms of abuses they experience. The social welfare officer Leckson Ngambi further suggested that parents should not be allowing their children to have phones that provide them...Read More

Children at Eswazini feel not inspired to go to school because of inadequate teaching and learning resources at Eswazini primary school,Traditional Authority Kampingo Sibande in Mzimba district. Brenda Mbizi who is in standard 6 attributes shortage of desks and other learning materials at the school as one of the main reasons that contribute to school...Read More

Timasukilane Youths Club together with Nkhata bay district social welfare office has embarked on a project of rescuing teen girls from marriages and sending them back to school in the district. About 45 girls have been rescued and are advised to restart schooling. This project is being implemented at Traditional Authority Malanda in the district....Read More

Blantyre District Social Welfare (BDSW) Officer, Stephano Joseph has called for intense coverage of abuses against children and says journalists must also focus on solutions in order to deal with the vices completely. Joseph says currently children in Blantyre District are experiencing many abuses which some of them are being perpetrated by close relations which...Read More

As many stakeholders are intensifying campaigns aimed at bringing awareness on the need to protect the rights of children so as to end child marriages, poverty is said to be fueling the vice rendering the campaign efforts worthless. It is understood that due to poverty, many parents force their children to drop out of school...Read More

Children and other stakeholders in villages around Chezi Trading Centre in Traditional Authority Mkukula have bemoaned lack of deliberate will in most parents to ensure that the children’s right to education is protected by exposing such children to various forms of abuse including forced labour. The revelation came when a team of Malawi Institute of...Read More

Lilongwe Rural District social welfare officer, Jean Nthengwe has called on Malawi Institute of Journalism (MIJ) students in Lilongwe to join hands with government in a bid to protect children from any form of violation of their rights either through abuse or by engaging them in hard labour. Nthengwe made the sentiments when he addressed...Read More

In as much as there has been huge campaign on child rights and responsibility, it is still much clear that a lot has to be done in the case of Eswazini Traditional Authority Kapingo Sibande in Mzimba District. At Eswazini, parents and guardians strongly believe the campaign for children rights has interfered with the traditional...Read More