All For One Initiative Zambia

📍 Youth Coalition Community Engagement – Matanda Ward
🗓️ 13th June 2025

Ahead of the Day of the African Child, the Youth Coalition engaged students at Mwanguni Secondary School and community members at Mulonga Primary School.

✅ Key Issues Raised:
• Teenage pregnancies
• Early marriages
• Substance abuse
• School dropouts
• Gender-based violence
• Lack of support for the boy child

🎭 Mulonga youth performed a drama to educate the community on children’s rights and the value of education.

📢 Children and community members called for:
• Stronger protection policies
• Skills & youth programs
• Better access to bursaries & CDF
• Improved sanitation in schools

Let’s protect, empower, and invest in our children their future is our responsibility. 🌍👧🏽👦🏽

🕯️ Preparations Underway Join Us in Honoring Their Memory 🕯️
Today, the 10th of June 2025, we held the 5th preparatory meeting for the upcoming Day of the African Child.

As the Youth Coalition, we warmly invite the general public to attend a Candlelight Service in remembrance of all children who have lost their lives due to abuse and neglect.

📍 Venue: Mansa Catholic Cathedral Church
📅 Date: 12th June 2025
🕔 Time: 16:00-17:30

Candlelight services are more than symbolic they shine a light on the stories too often left in the dark. Each flame represents a child whose life was cut short, a voice that was silenced, and a future that was stolen. By gathering together, we remember, we mourn, and we renew our collective commitment to protect children and uphold their rights.

Let’s stand together.
Let’s remember them.
Let’s keep the light burning for those who never got the chance.

🕯️ Day 4 of the Solidarity Awareness Countdown 🕯️

Today marks Day 4 of our campaign against child abuse and child defilement.
Each day is a reminder that protecting our children is a shared responsibility.

Let’s not just speak let’s act.
Here are 4 ways we can help keep children safe:
1️⃣ Listen when children speak believe them and support them.
2️⃣ Know the signs of abuse physical, emotional, and behavioral.
3️⃣ Educate children about their rights and personal boundaries.
4️⃣ Create safe spaces at home, in schools, and online.

Every child deserves to grow up in an environment free from fear and harm.
Your voice can protect. Your action can save. 💛