Lilongwe registers decrease in school drop-out rates
World Vision through Nkhoma Literacy for Empowerment Action Research and Networking project says it has managed to reduce drop-out rates from 21.6 percent to 10.6 percent in Lilongwe District.
Lilongwe World Vision programmes manager Harold Munthali said this on Friday during a stakeholders meeting.
He said they have been implementing back to school campaigns.
“Our goal was to come up with different interventions to bring back boys and girls to school and in 2024 we have enrolled 91.2 percent in school,” he said.
Munthali further said World Vision, with the help of care groups, religious leaders and child protection committee, have built the capacity of community members to understand children’s rights as well as the importance of educating them in Nkhoma Area Programme.
“This initiative has really helped to reduce the high rate of single parent homes, teenage pregnancies, early marriages, history of academic difficulties, peer influence and repetition of classes,” he said.
Munthali said World Vision has also taken education to the next level by introducing reading camps, building user-friendly toilets for girls, introducing children’s Parliament, spelling bee competition and 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 will assist the government to have responsible citizens in the future.
“This is encouraging and I would like to ask other organisations to emulate what WV is doing in the district,” he said.
World Vision is implementing different projects across the country, but in Lilongwe they are implementing different interventions in Chigodi, Nkhoma and Chilenje.
