Students at the University of Malawi are protesting over the school’s decision to have only one semester per year, doubling the length of time needed for a degree. The school closed Wednesday after students blocked roads to the campus, and Read more
LUSAKA, 9 August 2022 – Children in Malawi and Zambia are calling for their governments to change the school calendar and close during the winter months of June and July with climate change bringing colder temperatures leaving students unable to concen…
Weather disasters that happen more often because of climate change create conditions in which gender-based violence often spikes, according to new research.The study, published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health, reviewed research from five con…
AbstractIt is often taken as a given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empirica…
DEDZA, Malawi – For the past three years, Lusita Maikolo has been in and out of school. Her parents could not manage to pay her school fees regularly, and this led to her being excluded and missing entire periods of learning.The 17-year-old girl never …
Published by The Pavlovic Today Sze Yan Liu, Montclair State University When people living in poverty in countries like Malawi, Indonesia and Ecuador receive cash payments without having to do anything in return, they have better health, according to a Read more