The use of teen clubs is proving a success in Rumphi district as youths living with HIV, a virus that causes AIDS are now opening up on positive living. A snap survey of the three Teen clubs in T/As Chikulamayembe, Mwahenga and Mwankhunikira in the district showed that teens are slowly opening up on issues to do with HIV and AIDS. The teen clubs pull together an average group of 60 youths living positively. These...
Life Concern Organization (LICO) has embarked on a community empowerment programme where the organization is providing goats and pigs to study circle groups in Rumphi district. So far six study circle groups have benefitted through this initiative in the area of Traditional Authority Mwahenga and Mwankhunikira. Study circle groups pull together people within communities with a sole purpose of discussing ways of fighting the further spread of HIV and AIDS and maternal health. In Rumphi...
Education is key to the socio-economic development of every country. Achieving quality education however remains a far- fetched dream for most countries especially in the sub Saharan region. Malawi, just like other neighboring countries in the region is struggling to achieve quality education for all. Some of the factors affecting the delivery of quality education in Malawi are inadequate well trained and qualified teachers, inadequate teaching and learning materials and shortage of classrooms and teachers...
Life Concern Organisation has taken HIV and AIDS fight to the youths urging them to refrain from engaging in immoral behaviours that would lead them to contracting HIV, a virus that causes AIDS. In a country ravaged by poverty and economic malaise, many youths find themselves jobless and with no hope and purpose for their lives. Starved of entertainment and other meaningful activities to embark on, the youths especially those in rural areas indulge in...
Life Concern Organization (LICO) recently responded to government plea for help towards people who were affected by flash floods in Rumphi by donating assorted relief items to 89 affected households in the district. Several households were left homeless and destitute after their houses were demolished and property swept away by floods at Rumphi boma following heavy rains that forced Mawelewere River to swell and flood. Among the affected villages were Chikalamba, Mlongoti, Jeyeka, Chilambilo, Malima,...
