Save the Children is leaving no stone unturned in its efforts to fight child labour in Malawi’s central district of Mchinji.
The organisation is distributing exercise books to pupils with special needs and those who were withdrawn from tobacco fields in the district.
Speaking during the distribution exercise at Msambaimfa Primary School in the district on Tuesday, Save the Children education programme officer Enea Nkhoma said the project aims at encouraging learners with special needs and those who were withdrawn from child labour to remain in school.
“As an organisation, we know that if the learners are overwhelmed with so many challenges, chances are high that they may go back to work in tobacco fields.
“This is why we are distributing the exercise books to ensure that those who are already in school should not go back to work and those who dropped out of school should be encouraged to return to school,” he said.
Save the Children, according to Nkhoma, will distribute exercise books to 4 101 pupils in 18 schools in the district.
The organisation, with funding from the Elimination of Child Labour in Tobacco (ECLT) growing, is running a similar exercise in Rumphi.
Save the Children is one of organisations in the Child Labour Actions for Real Change (Clear) Project that is fighting the vice using different interventions in the three districts.
Other partners in the project are Youth Net Organisation (Yoneco), Total Land Care and the Creative Centre for Social Mobilisation (Creccom).
