COMMUNITY LEADERS COMMEND YONECO’S TROPHY
Leaders in Balaka district have commended Youth Net and Counseling (YONECO) for their commitment in improving education in the country more especially in primary schools.
This was reviewed during YONECO’s trophy finals held at Kankawo community ground in Balaka district where they wanted to find the winner of the competition.
According to YONECO’s project officer for Balaka Patrick Makonde, the trophy has helped in raising awareness to the community members on child rights and responsibilities whereby they are expecting reduction in some cases that hinder children in the community to access their education.
“As an organization we thought of launching this trophy in Kankawo education zone in order to bring awareness to people in the community so that we can create a conducive environment for our learners in most primary schools across the district. I should also thank all the schools who participated in this competition for their commitment and they should take the message to their respective communities,” Makonde explained.
In his remarks T/A Chanthunya who graced the occasion said that the trophy came at the right time because it has helped the people in the community a lot and there will be reduction of school dropouts as was the case before.
“I should thank YONECO for organizing this trophy in my area because it has helped people in raising awareness on child rights and improve education since people are now aware of the dangers of violating child rights especially education rights.” said Chanthunya.
On the other hand the PEA of Kankawo Education Zone Andrew Matthews expressed his gratitude that the Trophy has helped to create good relationship between the learners, teachers and people in the community as well as in improving education since a lot of children started going to school from the time the trophy was launched in his zone.
The winners of the trophy are Mseche primary school in the football category and they walked away with MK 30, 000 after beating Namikombe primary school. In the Netball category Rivirivi walked away with MK30, 000 after emerging the winner after beating Mchima primary school. During the finals YONECO cultural Troops spiced up the event.
The trophy was launched on April 30, 2015 under the theme “Improving Girls Child Education” which was wealth about MK600, 000. The funding was from Plan Malawi.
By Fatsileni Asamu
