FutureLife-Now! Newsletter: Edition 17, 2024
Welcome to the 17th in a series of FutureLife-Now! newsletters, designed to share information, good practices and lessons learnt related to the education, health and development of young people in the SADC Region. Whether you are a young person, a teacher, a health worker, a parent or caregiver, or policy maker, we hope that you will find this enjoyable and useful reading.
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FutureLife-Now! evaluated || Useful findings from an external evaluation
FutureLife-Now! has contributed significantly to systems-level changes in both education and health sectors by integrating climate change and health education into curricula, enhancing collaboration between sectors, empowering youth, advocating for supportive policies, and engaging communities. – Swiss Agency for Cooperation and Development (SDC) Representative [interviewed for the rapid evaluation] As the second phase of FutureLife-Now! draws to an end, development consultants Southern Hemisphere were commissioned in August to conduct an …
A game changer! || FutureLife-Now! Malawi initiates youth-friendly outreach clinics
One of FutureLife-Now!’s priorities is to make sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) services more accessible for the learners in schools. For many young people, accessing these services is a challenge mainly because the service delivery point—usually a clinic—is located too far from them. But for the youth attending FutureLife-Now! schools, the situation has changed! Earlier this year the FutureLife-Now! team in Malawi consulted with two key partners, namely …
Bushu Secondary holds a health service jamboree || A case study of community-led transformation
Bushu Secondary School, a modest institution located in Zimbabwe’s Shamva District, stands as a testament to the transformative power of community-led initiatives. The reality of Bushu is that of a community operating within a socio-economic context marked by school dropouts due to the lure of artisanal gold mining, early marriage and substance abuse. Yet through its involvement in the FutureLife-Now! Programme, the school is emerging as a beacon of hope, …
From struggle to triumph || A learner’s journey to academic excellence
Zabeta Ngoma is a determined Grade 10 pupil at Kapiri Day Secondary School, a rural school in the Kapiri District in Zambia. Having shown great promise academically, she was confronted by a challenge that threatened her scholastic journey. Every day, Zabeta had to walk five kilometres to and then back from school as her family couldn’t afford the bus fare. The arduous trek was taking a toll on her mental …
Empowering young people through climate change competitions || Thetsane High School in Maseru hosts a climate change fair
A stated aim of FutureLife-Now! is that it develops healthy and empowered young people who can lead responses to 21st century challenges, including those related to climate change. A good example of this in practice is the “climate change fair” that FutureLife-Now! hosted at Thetsane High School. Thetsane, in the Maseru District, has participated in the FutureLife-Now! Programme since Phase 1, benefitting from its many initiatives. Now, in Phase 2 …