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According to the 2018 population census, 1,224,602 Malawian youths were unemployed representing 18.5 unemployment rate.

As the figures from this study proved scary in the job market, Save the Children Malawi embarked on an area development program to impart different entrepreneurial skills to the youths of Zomba district in 2016.

Peter from Chikumbu village in Zomba is one of the youths that took part in this initiative and was grilled on tailoring skills in a two months course.

Save the Children through the Resilience Economic Development (RED) Project has proved rewarding in helping communities harvest more produce as they are trained disaster risk management.

Sambani Chairperson for Village Civil Protection Committee (VCPC) in T/A Mdeza is one of the beneficiaries of the Project and has also witnessed people from her community benefit from it.

High poverty rates continue to affect youth’s access to education in Zomba, threatening their sense of independence and future. Nevertheless, the youth hailing from Mayaka village have tremendously benefitted from Resilience Economic Development (RED) Project, implemented by Save the Children, aimed at among others, empowering the youths with different sets of skills. Currently the youth in the area are learning how to become fashion designers, phone technicians and motor cycle repairers.

It would not be surprising if Mangochi was one of the districts that recorded high numbers of Covid 19. After all, it is easily accessed by neighbouring countries and it is highly populated. But this is not the reality on the ground for the district. With Trocaire rolling out the Covid 19 response project funded by ECHO, the district has managed to keep the infection rate as low as possible and managed the infections that were there.

Mwanza district has benefitted greatly from the ECHO funded project, implemented by Save the Children, aimed at dealing with the spread of the Covid 19 and the combatting of its effects altogether. Currently, the Mwanza District Health Office has no active cases, but only one case is reported from the community.