Every Child Deserves Good Education, Nutrition & Protection

Your donations will enable COPRED to:

Educational Support: 3139 children (1726f and 1413m) including 61 children with disabilities** (24f and 37m) drawn from 53 households (22f headed and 31m headed) will be enrolled in 32 ECD centres every year. Costs for education support will include: providing materials for producing learning and teaching aids, training 320 Caregivers and 480 Assistant caregiver in play-based learning. support the reproduction of ECD and Primary school curriculums; training 270 ECD centre management committee members on their child safeguarding oversight roles and responsibilities. The project will construct ramps on water points and toilets, re-organizing classrooms and playgrounds, provision of school fees for 8 children in Special Needs education institutions, provision of scholastic materials to children with disabilities in primary and schools. School Feeding: The project will provide meals to 3139 children at 32 ECD centres.

Access to adequate, safe and clean water: COPRED intends to drill 38 boreholes, 12 in Mwanza, 10 each in Neno and 16 Blantyre districts in the targeted communities. 40% of well will be drilled at ECD centres or school grounds to provide clean water to children there and the surrounding communities. Using community self-help approach, COPRED will mobilize the community to rehabilitate all existing wells with annual sustained waterflow to usable state (target to be determined).

Menstrual hygiene management: The project will support 3248 needy adolescent girls; 588 in Mwanza, 2096 in Blantyre and 564 in Neno districts with menstrual sanitary pads on monthly basis. These will be homemade, washable, cotton re-usable sanitary pads that doubles as underwear and a sanitary pack containing 10 tablets of laundry soap and painkillers will be given to each of the targeted girls once every three months. The project will procure 15 sewing machines and cloth materials to support this initiative. As a way of ensuring continuity and sustaining the production of menstrual pads, COPRED will encourage mother groups to product more sanitary pads of which 70% will be distributed for free to girls and 30% will be sold to recover costs for production and re-investment. Additionally, 48 girl-friendly pit-latrines complete with changing rooms and insinuators for burning disposed the wastes will be constructed and the community will support the construction of the latrines by providing bricks, sand, stones and labour. Then the project will support the construction of the latrines with cement, iron sheets, nails, doors, timber and whitewash or paint.
 

Livelihoods - Food, Nutrition and Economic Security intervention will target 1947 families engaged in rain-fed and irrigation crop production using agriculture conservational methods, 60% of the targeted families will be headed by women. The project will support the most-needy but able child-headed families with farm inputs comprising of a seed basket containing 2kgs maize, 1kg soya, 1kg g/nuts, 1kg pigeon peas, 0.5kg sorghum, 10 bundles of sweet potato vines, 10 bundles of cassava cuttings and 5 heads of banana sackers will be given to each family to plant. Families who do their farming in dry areas will be provided with 2kgs pigeon peas and 1kg sorghum. All, families will be provided with fertilizers of the following quantities and types: 20kgs NPK and 15kgs Urea as starter pack.

Livestock sibling-pass-on revolving approach: As a safety-net, COPRED will buy 270 seed livestock (Goats and Sheep) for distribution to 54 family farming groups, each group will receive 5 goats/sheep to raise and the first babies will be given to the first beneficiaries selected from the group itself, up until all members would have taken their share. The remaining livestock will be given to the ECD centre for its own sustainability support. Three people from each group will be trained in basic veterinary skills, that will include: Feeding practices and options, identification of signs and symptoms of diseases, deworming, first-aid treatment administration among others.