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Bishop Makenzie Donates Books to CRIDOC

Bishop Mackenzie International School (BMIS) in May this year donated to Child Rights Information and Documentation Centre (CRIDOC) three cartons of assorted books to be used at the resource centre in Area 18B, in Lilongwe, which CRIDOC is co-managing with the Youth Alliance in Social and Economic Development (YASED). Read 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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