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Malawi’s Head of State Dr. Lazarous Chakwera, on Thursday, October 2022 officially opened a three-day National Children’s Summit on Climate Justice, from 20 to 22 October, 2022.

The summit has brought together 300 children and youth to deliberate climate change impacts and input into Malawi’s Position Paper for Conference of Parties (COP27).

Vincent, 45, is a member of Namwekho Village Savings and Loan (VSL). He has a small family of three children— two boys and one girl. When Save the Children, through its Sponsorship livelihood program, introduced VSL at his village as part of improving the livelihood of families, Vincent joined and immediately started saving.

Evance is an 18-year-old innovator with a passion for aerospace engineering. He was born and raised by underprivileged family in the rural part of Lilongwe district. His interest in electronics began while learning a science subject in grade 8. The partial knowledge he acquired ignited his interest to discover more. This then led him to begin extracting motors from discarded gadgets like CD-ROMS. He was 13 years old by then.

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