Youth groups updates
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Youth group visits build teamwork and confidence
Routine visits to nine youth groups encourage girls to stay active, spread HIV/AIDS messages and support each other, including with their education.
Programme updateSchool fees programme: 39 girls supported this term
Girls from 21 youth groups are on the school fees programme. Before the final term, they and their guardians met MASYAP to review progress.
Programme updateYouth group visits: school drop-out, teen pregnancy and early marriage
Follow-up visits checked how girls are progressing in MASYAP’s activities and discussed the pressures they face.
Programme updateDrama and netball with nine youth groups
MASYAP visited nine youth groups to encourage girls in their studies, using drama and netball to build confidence and teamwork.
EventMenstrual Hygiene Day 2021: reusable pads for girls
MASYAP marked Menstrual Hygiene Day with women and youth members at our Limbe office and gave girls reusable sanitary pads made by our tailors.
EventQuarterly meeting for youth group chairladies
Youth chairladies met to update their HIV knowledge, hear about new programmes and share the challenges and initiatives of their groups.
Programme updateReusable sanitary pads, sewn by MASYAP, keep girls in school
49 schoolgirls from MASYAP’s youth groups received reusable sanitary pads made by our tailors, so they don’t miss school during their periods.
Programme updateYouth Coordinator visits Kameza, Lirangwe and Lunzu
Youth Coordinator Fatima Hassan visited three youth groups to check how active members are and to remind them of Covid-19 precautions.
Programme updateSchool fees for 40 girls in 2021
As schools reopened after the Covid-19 closures, the 40 girls on MASYAP’s school fees programme collected their fees for the 2021 academic year.
EventSteadfast Ways visit MASYAP’s youth programme
MASYAP held a showcase for visitors from Steadfast Ways, with a netball match and time with 60 youth members.
Programme updateBCA and Chiwembe play a showcase netball match
Two youth support groups, BCA and Chiwembe, played a netball match at the showcase MASYAP organised for visitors from Steadfast Ways.
Programme updateAugust 2019 netball tournament: Chigumula win
24 youth groups competed in MASYAP’s August 2019 netball tournament, which used sport to keep girls active in the holidays and to share HIV messages.