WV takes HIV and Aids head on in Zomba
World Vision Malawi (WVM) says people need to be responsible and change their behaviour to reduce the number of orphaned children in the wake of the HIV and Aids.
WVM Chingale area development programme (ADP) manager Binwell Mtoso said this in Malawi’s old capital, Zomba last Monday during a bouncing party organised for orphaned and vulnerable children held at Chingale Primary School in Sub-Traditional Authority Nkapita’s area.
A bouncing party is a celebration that WVM donors from United States of America (USA) organise to entertain vulnerable children whom they sponsor when they go to school in their respective communities.
“We are gathered here to celebrate together with these orphaned and vulnerable children who cannot afford to celebrate their birthday parties just because they are coming from poor families or because they lost their parents.
“Which is why, as WVM, we have brought them together to encourage them on the importance of going to school so that they become better citizens in the future,” said Mtoso.
He added that about 450 children are under the sponsorship and are given the necessities as encouragement in their education.
Each child was given one packet of sugar, a kilogramme of rice, a bottle of squash and one tablet of laundry soap, among other things.
Speaking during the event, which came under the theme ‘Aids is a killer’, a representative of the district commissioner, Yohane Dzuwa, urged parents, government and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to reach out to the children with HIV and Aids with programmes that will make them lead better lives.
