Network for a Better World was founded in 2012 by a group of twelve returned volunteers who decided from their experience of working in Africa that N4BW would offer the hand of friendship and a promise of partnership to some of the most marginalised people in our world today. We are currently based in the UK, and work overseas in Malawi to help fight poverty.

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Sitima, near Zomba in Malawi We identified this rural area of Southern Malawi. There was only limited input by larger agencies and governmental funders and the mainly subsistence faarmers were struggling to make a living after two seasons of drought. At this sort of grass roots level, our modest investment of time, energy and money could have a better chance of truly helping those that need it.

Keeping Girls in Education

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23 October 2019

According to UNESCO, Institute for Statistics, (US 2018), the figures show that in Sub-Saharan Africa, 33.3 million girls of primary and lower secondary school age are out of school, rising to 52.2 million when taking into account girls of upper secondary level.

Aa part of our education programme N4BW works with teachers and school children alike exploring the issues around keeping girls in education.

One of the winning entries in a poetry competition at Luntha School, highlights the issue.

Freedom of Education

Where is our freedom? I mean our delicious and attractive freedom.

Freedom of education.

The freedom that is currently given to boys only.

Pushing us into early marriages, forcing us to face calamities.

Where is our freedom kept? Freedom of relaxing after school.

Hours of cooking and household chores while boys are busy studying.

By the way what does gender mean?

Frankly you mistreat us

Let us learn as well, Our bright future, let us make.

Let us prevent domestic violence; early pregnancy we also should prevent

Reliable citizens we should become

After having adequate education

Where is our freedom?

I admire when I see Jane, wearing her nurse uniform.

So beautiful, she looks

Because of her advanced education, today she is in a better position

Ladies and gentlemen, lets educate both boys and girls

As this act makes young girls face consequences

Girls are readers as good as boys

Let us develop our Malawi by educating al!!

by Joyce Samana

CAMFED, (Campaign for Female Education), one of the leading organisations supporting girls in school across the African continent, states that through a completed education a girl will

Earn up to 25% more per year of secondary school education
Reinvest 90% of her earnings into her family
Be 3 times less likely to become HIV positive
Marry later and have a smaller, healthier family
Invest in her children’s education and support their studies
Resist gender-based violence and discrimination, and change her community from within

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