By Winfrida Kamwana

Mchinji, January 9, Mana:  As a way of empowering health hygiene in schools, Mindset Youth Club, a youth-led organization, has donated a changing room and a urinal block at Chapanama Primary School in Mchinji to ease some of the sanitation challenges that the school is facing.

Speaking on Wednesday during handover ceremony, founder of Mindset Youth Club, Daniel Kamchacha highlighted that the idea came about when the club interacted with the pupils during a few football bonanzas that the club organised for them. The pupils voiced out the challenges the school was facing among them the lack of changing rooms and toilets.

“As a student under MasterCard Foundation we believe in giving back to the community and we believe that youths need to take charge in developing their areas, youths that are energetic make it easier to take care and be responsible for the development they have facilitated,” said Kamchacha.

Kamchacha further explained that the youth giving back to the community using projects like these encourages the children to work hard because they feel more is being provided for them for them to succeed.

In his remarks, Chapanama’s Headteacher, Enoch Kadango appreciated the youth for seeing it fit to help the school saying health hygiene is the most crucial part of education.

“When children are healthy it is easier for them to attend classes rather than when the place lacks facilities such as toilets or blocks, this affects the pupils negatively,” said Kadango.

Sandra Wasili, a standard 8 pupil celebrated over the changing house stating that now girls will have a safe space to take care of themselves during menstruation.

Mindset Youth Club has donated a changing room and urinal block built with funding from MasterCard Foundation to the tune of about 1.8 million Malawi kwacha.