Yamba Malawi

In 2022, Yamba Malawi partnered with 12 community-based organizations (cbos) and 224 community-based childcare centers (cbccs) in lilongwe and mangochi districts, serving over 50,000 of the most vulnerable children in Malawi. These cbos and cbccs received capacity building in governance, advocacy, and leadership, and training in early childhood development (ecd) using Yamba Malawi's unique indigenous knowledge-based ecd curriculum. Yamba Malawi also partnered with 1,212 households enrolled in our pioneering child-focused ultra poverty graduation program, the childhoods & livelihoods program, to provide training, coaching, referrals, and targeted cash transfers enabling them to build essential skills in three pillar areas: childhood wellbeing, entrepreneurship, and financial inclusion. These trainings cover specific topics including integrated household farming, wash, childhood nutrition, and prevention of common childhood diseases. Households were also supported in forming over 50 village savings and loan associations, enabling access to savings and credit. Impact surveys of program households conducted in 2022 showed a 2x increase in the number of young children eating sufficient, nutritious food daily; a 3x decrease in the cases of waterborne disease due to improvements in household water and sanitation practices; a 71% reduction in the percentage of households subsisting below the poverty line, defined as $1.90 per day; and a 3x increase in households with access to financial services.