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Adaptation and Response for Children Affected by Droughts and Disasters
Weather-related stresses associated with El Niño in 2015–2016 have severely impacted 60 million people. Governments across the globe are dealing with the consequences as they affect food security, livelihoods, and the well-being of their populations. Seve
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Nutrition in the WHO African Region
Today, nutrition is considered a fundamental pre-requisite to health and well-being, and a primary indicator of future human capital development. The first 1000 days of a child's life is especially crucial. Physical growth and cognitive development within
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School-based Diagnosis and Treatment of Malaria by Teachers Using Rapid Diagnostic Tests and Artemisinin-based Combination Therapy: Experiences and perceptions of users and implementers of the Learner Treatment Kit, southern Malawi
Training teachers to diagnose uncomplicated malaria using malaria rapid diagnostic tests and treat with artemisinin-based combination therapy has the potential to improve the access of primary school children (6–14 years) to prompt and effective treatment
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Youth in Action: The transformative power of building youth skills (video)
Welfred, Teresa, Anita, and Edson are four youth who graduated from YiA program and through this video share some of the skills they attained through the programme. Youth in Action (YiA) is a six-year youth livelihood program. In partnership with Masterca
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Save the Children Malawi Supports Ministry of Health in Ending Preventable Newborn Deaths: Brief
This brief highlights a district-led quality improvement and mentorship approach to improve the quality of newborn care in Malawi, and ultimately, to end preventable newborn deaths, undertaken by the Malawi Ministry of Health, with support from implementi
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Improving Child Nutrition and Development Through Community-based Childcare Centres in Malawi- The NEEP-IE study: Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
The Nutrition Embedded Evaluation Programme Impact Evaluation (NEEP-IE) study is a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to evaluate the impact of a childcare centre-based integrated nutritional and agricultural intervention on the diets, nutrition
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Every Last Child Country Spotlight: Malawi
Save the Children is campaigning at an international and national level to achieve the greatest impact for children with the Every Last Child Campaign. The Campaign in Malawi will focus on children living in the remotest areas. These children lack access
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Malawi ELM & HEART Endline Analysis
This report evaluates the effect of Save the Children programming on early learning and development among pre-school children in 40 early childhood development centers (CBCCs) in Zomba, Malawi. The evaluation examines the effects of two programs: the Earl
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Influence of Community on Youth Transferable Skills in Livelihood Development Youth in Action: Malawi and Uganda
Youth in Action is a six-year youth livelihood program, in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, YiA aims to improve the socio-economic status of 40,000 out-of-school young people in rural Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ethiopia, Malawi, and Uganda. Through t
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Literacy Breakthrough: Global Ripples from our Programs
As a global movement working to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, Save the Children’s literacy programs have grown in influence beyond their initial implementation sites. Around the world, Save the Children education teams are le
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The Lottery of Birth: Giving all children an equal chance to survive
In many countries across the world, the odds of children surviving to celebrate their fifth birthday have improved considerably in recent years. Today, 17,000 fewer children die every day than was the case in 1990 and the global under-five child mortality
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Retrak Outreach Work
Retrak is a charity organization which reaches out to thousands of children living on the streets who suffer from hunger, poverty, abuse, and violence. Retrak provides these children with the food, medicine, clothing, hygiene and shelter which they desper