Yamba Malawi

In 2024, Yamba Malawi partnered with 4 community-based organizations (cbos) and 27 community-based childcare centers (cbccs) in mangochi districts, serving over 30,380 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 3,981 households in our pioneering child-focused ultra-poverty graduation program, the upg, 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 183 village savings and loan associations, enabling access to savings and credit. Impact surveys of program households in the child focused programs conducted in 2024 showed 21x increase in household savings, 35% drop in the share of households below the poverty line, 12.9% drop in childhood malaria illnesses, 0.6% drop in malnutrition, 22% increase in number of children that consume at least 2 meals a day and 2x increase in household income.