Women Lawyers Association (WLA) has conducted an awareness campaign on gender-based violence (GBV) at Gumba Community Day Secondary School in Mchinji District with a call to students to report the vice to authorities.
The association has introduced a new approach to tackling GBV by sensitising children to different forms of abuse to help them understand their rights and empower them to take necessary action.
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Speaking on Friday during a legal clinic at the school, WLA Waging Justice for Women fellow Tonthozo Saukila said many people only recognise physical abuse and overlook emotional and economic violence.
“Our clinics will help students and stakeholders understand these forms and how to support victims,” she said.
Saukila said the legal clinics will also help stakeholders to understand the roles they can play in helping GBV victims.
The school’s head teacher Davidson Chikandira said the legal clinic came at the right time when students needed such interventions.
“As teachers, we now understand different forms of violence and believe that the students will be able to open up more if they encounter such experiences at home or around their communities,” he said.
Chikandira was quick to mention that many children face such forms of abuse and violence in their homes, which affects their performance in class.
A Form Three student Khadija Rashed commended the women lawyers for legal clinic.
In collaboration with Clooney Foundation for Justice, WLA will conduct 18 legal clinics nationwide between May and December 2025
