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Child Rights Information & Documentation Centre

Empowering Children,
Transforming Futures
in Malawi.

At CRIDOC, we believe every child deserves access to information that shapes their future. Working with communities, schools, and partners across Malawi, we champion the rights, health, and education of children and young people — one resource, one library, one child at a time.

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How We Make a Difference

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Resource Centre

We're a single point of information and various types of resource on matters related to the rights, development, and the well-being of children and young people in Malawi.

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Participatory Research

From time to time, we initiate participatory and action research into all aspects of child and youth development, including their social and human rights in Malawi.

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School Libraries

Beyond our resource centre in Lilongwe, we aim to facilitate the establishment of accessible and inclusive libraries, mainly in primary schools across Malawi.

School Clubs

We establish school clubs as our vehicle through which we raise awareness among children and youths on their rights and various issues affecting them.

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Strategic Partnerships

We develop a network of like-minded institutions, centres, and individuals in Malawi and abroad who can then drive child and youth-friendly policy changes in the country.

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School Clubs

Under the School Outreach Programme, we seek to establish and foster school clubs, mostly in primary schools. We have already established several school clubs in Lilongwe, and we are currently in the process of rolling out the programme in remote/rural areas of the country, resources permitting.

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Libraries & resource centres

On May 2, 2012, we officially launched a school library with teachers’ offices at Chimvite Primary School, which we constructed in partnership with the surrounding community, with funding from USAID under its Self-Help Project.
So far, CRIDOC has received donations of books and other materials from the Bishop Mackenzie International High School, the UK-based Child Rights Information Network (CRIN), the National Library Service, and the National AIDS Commission (NAC), among many others. We're now mobilizing other resources, such as computers and the installation of a solar system that can power both the computers and lights.

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How Can You help?

Volunteer

You can join hands with us by contributing your knowledge and skills in various legal ways and capacities, such as mobilising resources; conline campaigns; social media management, and events management, just to mention a few roles.

Donate

You can choose any of our causes that interest you the most and donate any amount you feel comfortable with. We promise to utilise your donations with the utmost prudence and transparency possible.

Fundraise

We have partnered with the First Web Foundation in South Africa. They are supporting us by running various crowdfunding campaigns online. You. too, can join them by creating your own fundraiser pages through DonorBox.org.

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CRIDOC Makes Solidarity Speech at 2016 SADC Summit

CRIDOC Team Leader Edward Phiri made a solidarity speech at the 2016 SADC Peoples’ Summit. Edward, a youth activist and national coordinator of the Youth Act Alliance Malawi Chapter, made the speech on behalf of the Malawi delegation in Manzini, Swaziland. In his speech, he placed great emphasis on several key issues. First, he spoke about the pressing need to end child marriages and highlighted the importance of following the SADC model law. Second, he discussed youth employment and empowerment, noting the crucial role that these play in shaping the future of the African continent. During the discussion, he referenced the African Youth Charter and the African Union Youth Decade Plan of Action. These two frameworks are essential in guiding efforts to promote African youth development. The African Youth Charter, for instance, outlines the rights, freedoms, and responsibilities of young people in Africa. In addition, the African Youth Charter seeks

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What Do Our Partners Say?

Robert Mangwazu Phiri

"Throughout our acquaintance with staff at CRIDOC, we found them to be efficient, professional, honest, organized, and a fantastic team to work with. CRIDOC, therefore, has our highest recommendation for any other potential partnership opportunity, especially those related to fundraising / resource mobilisation, community mobilisation..."
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Country Director- SAT Malawi

Nobel Peace Prize Winner,
Kailash Satyarthi

"Developments, like the Tobacco Tenancy Bill in Malawi, are important milestones, but as our friend George points out, to have any impact, legislation needs to be implemented and enforced. We fully support CRIDOC’s work in Malawi, and we call on the international community to make good on the commitments of Roadmap 2016.” Read more here.

Chairperson - Global March Against Child Labour

Aubrey Chibwana

"The Council has therefore been working with CRIDOC in various projects and activities, including the “Turning Scavenging Youth into Scholars and Entrepreneurs” project, in which NYCOM was responsible for coordinating the project whereas CRIDOC was responsible for implementing activities related to media and communication in 2009."
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Former Executive Director - NYCOM

Alex Lijanga

“Unlike their counterparts in town, our pupils in this village do not have access to basic learning materials, including textbooks. Your future (CRIDOC’s) plan to even include additional materials in the library such as Braille, children’s novels, games, and the like will drastically improve education standards here.”
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Head teacher - Chimvite Primary Shool

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