This week, a team from Malawi continues to work with non-school going youth. In dignity for them, they told  them that they are actually in a school, just not in the formal one. While the goal is to see every  youth going to school, however, an urgent intervention is required for the grown-up youth who  perhaps might not go back to elementary school. Sixty six percent of learners drop out at primary school level.  They go back to the village from the failed school without any skill. They become enemies of nature because they would survive by directly exploiting natural resources as that is the only way they  have known culturally. The remaining 34% of the primary graduates who continue to secondary school, only 1% will proceed to colleges. The rest will go back to the village to join the early  dropouts in exploiting natural resources for survival. There are many factors leading to this situation, but the purpose of this week’s activity was to impart these majority youth with  radical skills that are climate-smart.

This week’s activity is an aftermath of the climate education session with non-schooling youth: Malawi conducted on December 03, 2022. One interesting thing about non-school going youths is that they are quick to adopt. They are jobless and  are looking for work. If we bring them an intervention that solves their problems and they will take it without any delays.

Place: Jonafani Village, Machinga, Malawi

Stakeholders involved: Limera Youth Organization
Direct impacted population: 13 total; 4 females, 9 males
Indirect impacted population: 70

Objectives attained:  

• Promoted climate smart agriculture practices in the villages
• Reinforced climate actions in the communities

Conclusion: 

The youth make the biggest human capital. It is therefore important to empower and make the  most of them.