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Today, the grounds of Pheleni Primary School, in Lilongwe Rural were filled with colour and pomp on the World Literacy Day Commemoration thanks in part to the collaborative Save the Children and USAID project, Tiwerenge ndi Ana Athu (TiANA). TiANA is a project funded by USAIDs All Children Reading Grand Challenge, which supports and helps improve Save the Children’s, Literacy Boost Initiative – an evidence based response to an alarming global trend—the rise in the numbers of children finishing primary school who are unable to read well enough to learn.

On Friday 25^th July 2014, Save the Children’s Malawi Country Office celebrated the arrival of three vehicles and four motorcycles as assets provided with support from the European Union for a Child Protection project that fights Violence Against Children (VAC) in Malawi.

While most of the community caregivers in Community Based Child Care Centres (CBCCs) have low education attainment that makes it difficult for them to fill out data capturing forms for their centres, the communities around Chaidoni Village in Balaka District have devised an ingenious way to ensure that low education attainment no longer stands in the way of quality data reporting. Save the Children’s Monitoring and Evaluation Manager for the Education Program in Malawi, Charles Nzawa testifies.

Save the Children has a lot to be proud of ­– it has played a major role in contributing to the recently launched National Girls Education Strategy and has helped build a network of support towards girls’ education.

On 6^th May 2014, the National Girls Education Strategy was launched at the Bingu Conference Centre. In attendance were the likes of the UN Resident Coordinator, UNICEF’s Country Director, Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and the Guest of Honor, the Honourable Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Dr. Lucius Kanyumba.

On 16th June 1976, roughly ten thousand black South African school children marched the streets of Soweto to protest against a devised education agenda by the apartheid regime.