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YASD partners with FutureLife-Now! to train schools around Malawi on environmental conservation

Posted by Letswalo L Marobane on 15 November 2022, 16:00 SAST
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As poor waste management and sanitation problems increase in schools, YASD has started training schools in environmental conservation, waste management, and recycling. Through the support from FutureLife-Now! the organisation has trained about 30 students from NGOWE CDSS in Lilongwe on paper recycling, including paper making and tissue making from waste paper. Waste such as newspaper, notebooks and stationary, and other writable papers are often dumped and burnt, polluting the environment, but YASD sees this as an opportunity. Currently, NGOWE CDSS is the only community Day Secondary School in Malawi that recycles and manages waste papers into valuable products.

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YASD is training young people in Malawi to refrain from engaging in sexual and other high risk behaviour.

Posted by Letswalo L Marobane on 15 November 2022, 15:50 SAST
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With the increased number of new HIV infections, teen pregnancies, and drug use amongst adolescents and young people, YASD aligned its interventions to ensure that young people are empowered with the right information for them to make health decisions. It has been training the young people in SRHR, mental health, and social life skills so that they refrain from indulging themselves in sexual and high risk behaviours.

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2022 Adolescent Activism Award runner-up

Posted by Letswalo L Marobane on 15 November 2022, 15:35 SAST
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Youth Action for Success and Development, YASD is the runner for the 2022 Adolescent Activism award. YASD won this award under the category of SRHR and Environmental conservation. The organisation is currently implementing an initiative to link SRHR and climate change. It recognises that the unmet needs of  Sexual and Reproductive health and rights are a core for climate change. On the other hand, the climate crisis hardly affects the availability and accessibility of SRHR services and commodities at the same time, increases gender inequalities.
 

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