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Tree Planting at Kauma Primary School On 09th February 2022, Green Girls Platform in collaboration with Plan international Green Anglicans, Young Progressive Environmental Solutions, International Conservation and Clean up Management (ICCM), and Malawi Creation Care Network (MCCN) conducted a tree planting activity at Kauma primary school. 1000 tree seedlings were planted at the school and were purchased using the funds that were raised during the donate a tree raffle draw. Kauma primary school was identified through the help of the Lilongwe city council using information that was provided by the ministry of education. The school was identified as one of the schools highly affected by deforestation in Lilongwe and for reforestation, approximately 6000 trees were needed. The school has a wildlife club that was engaged to take care of the planted trees and ensure maximum survival rate. The function was graced by the presence of Councilor Heston Yohane Zybion who was the Guest of Honor where in his remarks he welcomed the development and promised to work hand in hand with the school and the community to ensure the trees planted survived. KEY OUTCOMES 1. Trees were planted on the school campus by the guest of honor, Senior T/A, Head Teacher, and all representatives from the Partners. It was done to show their commitment to planting trees and leading by example to ensure maximum survival. 2. A total of 1500 seedlings were planted instead of the initially planned 1000 making it a great success.

Green Girls Platform Karonga Chapter Tree Planting In February 2022, the Green Girls Platform with support from Mama Cash supported a tree planting activity in Karonga district organized by the Green girls’ platform Karonga chapter. The Karonga chapter members sensitized and trained girls and young women on environmental conservation. The trees were planted at Changara primary school, located in mwanjawira village, group village head Mwahimba. Key Outcomes 2300 trees were planted The T/A was in attendance and encouraged the women to keep up the good work The women and girls gained recognition for their work in the district. The women and girls conducted clean energy advocacy plays to better communicate to their audience

When it comes to the use of natural resources women and men play different roles. This is so because of gender norms where women are culturally responsible for managing natural resources by taking responsibility of collecting water and firewood for domestic purposes as well as providing health care using natural resources from the forest to produce medicine. Besides this, according to BRAAC (2020), 70% of women contribute towards agriculture in Malawi; showing that women also have a responsibility of ensuring there is food security within the household. The roles women have in managing natural resources allows them to have ample knowledge on how to handle and get the maximum output of these resources. Community awareness on biodiversity conservation was done at Mwambuli village in Karonga, Matuwi village in Mangochi and Phweremwe village in Mulanje. The engagement allowed the team to have a profound knowledge on how climate change in affecting the different districts in particular. The level of engagement was satisfactory on account of the exchange of scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledge.

Mental Health was a topic that only a few were aware of. Only those who had a privilege to access technology and internet had an idea on what mental health is and the different types of it. As a result, many people suffer from mental health illness but still have no clue that they have the illness or worse, how to deal with it. Suicide rates in Malawi continue increase especially after the Covid-19 Pandemic hit in 2020. As a consequence of the drastic effects the pandemic had on people’s livelihoods, it caused people to become really stressed out and others depression. People had to close down their businesses, others lost their jobs with that some parents were unable to provide food in their homes or be able to provide school fees for their kids after schools reopened, affecting children as well. As part of Covid-19 Resilience and Recovery. Green Girls Platform decided to create a safe space in form of clubs for girls to come together and talk about the experiences they went through during the Covid-19 Pandemic and what they did to deal with the situation. Schools like Bunda primary school, Mitundu primary school, Youth Care secondary school, Natural Resources College and Bunda College were visited and this helped girls and young women encourage each other and boost one another’s self-confidence.

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Green Girls Platform Capacity-building Stories hopes to turn the wealth of knowledge, experience, and inspiration into learning opportunities for a wider circle of capacity-building actors, and ultimately, into more impactful climate action! Climate change greatly affects young women and girls in Malawi, despite having incredible policies because there is lack of implementation. Hence climate-related disasters continue to have catastrophic impacts for decades to come without urgent action. Pandemics are one of the impacts predicted to worsen in occurrence and severity due to climate change, such as Covid-19 which has amplified the impacts and compounded inequalities. In this episode of a Capacity Building Training on Evidence Based Advocacy and Leadership Skills Green Girls Platform with support from Peace-First trained about 30 girls on the 18th December 2021 at Natural Resource College. With the consequences and effects of climate change that are present; the program emphasized on presence of individual leadership qualities, with organization support (GGP) to take lead in how to use effective evidence based advocacy to influence policy implementation and put pressure on leaders for change to happen like Greta Thunberg did.