Tackling child poverty and child labour in Malawi.​

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COIDA is a vibrant local NGO tackling child poverty in Malawi.  Their projects in Mzimba concentrate on sexual health (HIV/AIDS), women’s rights and child labour.  All of these are interlinked and considered crosscutting issues for Future Vision's objectives with MANERELA+. 

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The weaker position of women in the country is often evident and is compounded by the practice of polygamy within the Ngoni tribe present in Mzimba.  Approximately 60% of women contract HIV from their lawful partners, and COIDA estimates that 6 in 10 suffer from gender-based violence.  Child labour is often also a legacy of HIV/AIDS within families as there is extra pressure on a child to work if they have sick parents or are orphaned.

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Future Vision supports COIDA and carries out outreach work in Jenda, which is approximately 65KM from Mzimba boma.  Here, COIDA runs a successful programme which supports children and young people return to school and find coping strategies for family challenges.  The organisation also runs a training programme to assist older teenagers who cannot return to school but benefit from developing their professional skills in tailoring, farming or carpentry.



You can also contact mwfuturevision@gmail.com