2012 January Archive | Network of Organizations for Vunerable & Orphan Children

Welcome to our end of year newsletter 2011:

We have reached the end of another very challenging, but also rewarding year for everyone at NOVOC and all our network members.

The highlights of NOVOC’S achievements in the last half of 2011 are building the capacity of a local NGO Consol Homes in Finance management, establishing Village Savings and Loans Associations in a new impact area: the District of Mzimba, and translating an advocacy toolkit into Chichewa and printing it out as well as distributing it to its network members.

However we cannot assume that the year has been smooth for NOVOC, we met various challenges in implementing our activities ranging from lack of funding to high prices of commodities and lack of fuel in the country that has derailed implementation of projects on time.

Looking ahead, 2012 will present NOVOC with many new challenges, opportunities, more partnerships and collaborative endeavors and much more.

We would like to wish all our partners, funders and supporters, as well as NOVOC staff, Board Members and network members a happy and peaceful year.

We’d like to thank those that added their energy and commitment to our team. Thank you for your support during the past year and we wish you a wonderful and prosperous 2012!

Click here to download NOVOC Newsletter – Volume 2 / Issue 1, 2011

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NOVOC through the help of CORDAID have been implementing a project on strengthening the capacity of women in the Districts of Zomba, Phalombe, Nsanje, Mchinji and Kasungu. They produced a documentary illustrating the good practices collected during the implementation of economic empowerment activities.

NOVOC has been instrumental in strengthening the capacities of FBOs and CBOs in Malawi with the aim of improving the lives of Orphans and Vulnerable Children NOVOC through the help of Raising Malawi Trust. This project has been running in the district ofd Salima and Chitipa. In a way of documenting their success stories they produced this documentary.

The plight of OVC in Malawi and the challenges they face in accessing quality education in public primary schools in Malawi. This documentary has been used in lobbying the Parliamentarians to allocate more funds in the national budget for OVC education support. It has also been used to lobby the School Management Committees on the need to waive the user fees on Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Malawi public primary schools.