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Community Behavioral Change Initiative (CBCI) aims at contribution towards government efforts through ensuring improved health and environment in a community through Behaviour change intervention at the same time ensuring strengthening of local structures. CBCI was founded on the need to have vulnerable groups in rural communities empowered with more focus on, Girls, Children with Special Needs and Community Members.
CBCI will contribute to the humanitarian agenda of ensuring that people in local communities attain resilience, so they are able to be more independent and self-reliant.
CBCI promotes access and utilization of safe reproductive health services and information among marginalized adolescent girls in resource-poor communications schools in Malawi.
A lot of families with vulnerable children are helpless. Because of stereotypes, children with disabilities are not supported to go to school, and they grow up into dependent adults. And other children living in dire poverty are unable to attend school thereby raising a future generation that is not empowered. CBCI is working on empowering families falling within these categories to attain resilience thereby becoming self-reliant.
CBCI is developing a Re-Usable production Centre in Malawi, to equip girls with skills in menstrual hygiene management while also providing them with opportunities for economic empowerment. This will be achieved through Production after training and selling of the Safe pads in communities for them to earn a living, the availability of reusable pads makes girls to manage their menstruation with dignity