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Kachindamoto warns chiefs on child marriages

Kachindamoto:Leave girls alone
Kachindamoto:Leave girls alone

Senior Chief Kachindamoto of Dedza says she will demote chiefs who entertain marriages by couples below the age of 18 as a means to achieving safe motherhood.

She gave the warning on Wednesday at Msungo Primary School in Dedza when she presided over sewing machine handover ceremony to Msungo Mother Group in group village head (GVH) Kabulika by Girls Empowerment Network (Genet).

The Ngoni chief, who is also a member of the Presidential Initiative on Safe Motherhood, expressed concern over increased number of children dropping out of school for marriages.

“Allow those children to go to school for better Malawi. For how long shall we ask for alms because of uneducated children in society?” wondered Kachidamoto.

Genet’s project coordinator for skills transfer and menstruation hygiene management Tamala Mhango said her organisation noted that girls were also dropping out of school once they started menstruating due to lack sanitary wear.

She said apart from mentoring women in vocation and entrepreneurship, the project is expected to increase school enrollment, attendance and completion for girls.

“We are hoping that the project will ease girls’ challenges in accessing sanitary wears as this group will also make pads with the sewing machines we have given them,” she said.

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  1. More fire baba inkosikazi. It is this behave leading of people of the Central Region to blame a Tumbuka or Northerners as depriving their right to education yet it is them who are digging their own graves. This is the problem in my Region when APM comes from. I am asking chiefs to emulate your example. Keep up you have qualities of leadership. Bayete inkosi.

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