By Eranivey Temani

Lilongwe, July 6, Mana; World Vision through Nkhoma Literacy for Empowerment Action Research and Networking (MLEARN) Project has managed to reduce drop-out rates from 21.6 percent to 10.6 percent in Lilongwe.

World Vision Programmes Manager, Harold Munthali disclosed this Friday during a Stakeholders meeting in Lilongwe.

He said they have been implementing back to school campaigns and modeling boys and girls to go back to school after dropping out.

“Our goal was to come up with different interventions to bring back boys and girls to school and in 2024 we have managed to enroll 91.2 percent learners in school,” Munthali said.

He said World Vision with support of Care Groups, Religious Leaders and Child Protection Committee have managed to build the capacity of members of the community to understand children rights as well as the importance of educating them in Nkhoma Area Programme.

“This initiative has really helped to reduce high rate of single parent homes, teenage pregnancies, early marriages, history of academic difficulties, peer influence and repetition of classes.” Munthali said.

The Programmes Manager said apart from sending children back to school, World Vision has also managed to take education to the next level by introducing reading camps, building friendly toilets for girls, introducing children parliament, spelling bee competition as well as rewarding learners and teachers so that they stay motivated.

Lilongwe District Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, Blessings Makhiringa thanked World Vision for the initiative saying it would assist government to have responsible citizens in the future who would assist in the development of the country.

“This is encouraging and I would like to ask other organization to emulate what World Vision is doing in the district,” he said

World Vision is implementing different projects across the country and in Lilongwe they are implementing different interventions in Chigodi, Nkhoma and Chilenje.