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Malawi Children's Parliament

For the third year running, the New State House in Lilongwe has been playing host to a different kind of Parliament. Unlike the official version of Parliament which is unpopular for discussing trivia, the Children’s Parliament is known to tackle pertinent issues affecting the present and the future of this country. more »

Child Labour Baseline Study in Malawi

According to Child Labour Baseline Study conducted last year by University of Malawi Centre for Social Research, 38 percent of the children in the age group 5 to 17 years were reported working in the previous week prior to the survey. Over three quarters worked in their family farm while 24 percent worked outside their home. As many as 95 percent of the children that worked were under 14 years and 59 percent were in school. On average, the children spent eleven hours in the seven-day period of reference although children who worked for a wage worked longest (18 years), on average.

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Child Labour in Tea Sector in Malawi

Malawi has been seen to be one of the worst countries on African Continent when it comes to child labour practices, according to Line Eldring, author of the recently released report on Child Labour in the Tea Sector in Malawi (a pilot study). She observes that the "attention has especially been directed at the tobacco growing sector," and yet less is known about other commercial agricultural sectors, "as the tea sector, which is another major export sector in the Malawian economy."

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From Our Project Director

WELCOME to the Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre [CRIDOC], a newly conceived initiative that seeks to provide access to information on child rights or related issues through Documentation, Research, Website and/or other ICT models.        

This website is still under construction and the project is still at a preparatory stage. I am frantically running up and down to raise funds for what i believe will be one of the most innovative child focused projects in Malawi. So don't be surprised that some of the things you read on this site may actually be in future tense, rather than in the present.