The graduation day was lightened with joyful memories as stakeholders were called and assembled in the school hall to celebrate and give recognition to the bonafide students who will be graduating soon after writing the national examination. The occasion took place on 14th October 2021 at Ngowe Community Day Secondary School. The ceremony included dances, music, and poems among the students. Continue reading. 

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Dowa Secondary School is located in the central region of Malawi in the Dowa district. The school opened its doors in 1965 (45 years). Its reputation has gone far beyond the boundaries of Dowa.

Dowa is among the few schools that are benefiting from the FutureLife-Now! project. This project is indeed a partner in need as it embraced us in time of COVID-19 by providing preventive materials like masks to every student. In addition, as we know, Malawi usually has problems with electricity. Continue reading. 

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Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls (OWLAG)- South Africa held a Mental Health Seminar on 9 October 2021. Hosted and facilitated by its Executive Director, Ms Gugu Ndebele, panellists were; former Miss South Africa 2020, Shudufhadzo Musida, who shared her perspective and experience on mental health, and the OWLAG Dean of Students, Ms Thembi Mkhwanazi Dube.

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The report includes a road map for planning to build and maintain a CSTL school. A CSTL school is a rights-based, inclusive school that ensures that every child—especially the most marginalized—receives a quality education that unlocks their full potential as an agent of sustainable development. The goal is that every school in the SADC region becomes a CSTL school that provides transformational, quality, inclusive education to all, especially the most marginalized, and builds the human capital needed for sustainable, inclusive development. Download to view the full report.

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Dear Educators,

The government of Zimbabwe (GoZ) together with the Food and Afri-culture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFO), are writing to you to call on your students to take part in the World Food Day (WFD) Poster Contest; and urge them to support the global goal and end hunger and create a world where everyone has regular access to enough high-quality food to lead active and healthy lives. Since its launch in 2012, young people from more than 115 countries around the world participated in the contest and we want your students to join!

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MIET AFRICA conducted a review of the national educational ecosystems in four FutureLife-Now! Member States as measured against the CSTL Policy Framework and CYAF. These resultant learning briefs provide an overview of the strengths and gaps in each Member State, related to mainstreaming care and support and provides recommendations for strengthening the policy environment to mandate, enable and support the development of all schools as Care and Support for Teaching and Learning (CSTL) coordinating hubs.

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Presentations from the recent Regional CSTL Technical Committee Meeting and FutureLife-Now! Regional Task Team Meeting are available for download.

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The impact of COVID-19 will have an irreversible effect on progress that has been made if governments do not redouble their efforts and move forward with ever greater commitment to adolescent wellbeing. What is needed – now more than ever – is greater economic investment and infrastructure development in health, education, technology and protection while ensuring the involvement of young people in the policy discourse.

This is the outcome of an exploratory study undertaken by MIET AFRICA and the Human Science Research Council (HSRC), the report of which was recently launched.

Prior to the outbreak of COVID-19, some progress had been made in improving adolescents and young peoples’ lives, although economic inequalities meant that the benefits had not been enjoyed by all young people. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has not only exacerbated challenges experienced by the most vulnerable but has made every young person vulnerable.

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Youth participation in community development is one of the most effective ways to promote young people’s active engagement in sustainable development. Murape Secondary School is showing that this is so, especially when it comes to climate change.

Although young people should be responsible for shaping their future as leaders of tomorrow, in many communities their participation is often limited to their labour contribution, and ignores the importance of their participation in decision-making, choices, and management.

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What do boys and young men need? The best way to find out is to ask them!

This is precisely what happened at the boys’ vulnerability dialogue sessions at Ngowe and Natola Community Day Secondary schools in Malawi, on 22 and 25 June, 2021.

The sessions were organised by the FutureLife-Now! programme in its quest to include young boys and men in programmes in an attempt to address the impact of gender disparities in society.

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