The eight impact areas of our NGO is there to end poverty. 

Holistic Early Childhood Care and Development Programme

Giving young children under five a safe, stimulating and quality early living and learning environment. It targets 3000 children (2-5 year olds), 4000 parents and caregivers, 70 Early Childhood Development (ECD) centres and 17 health facilities.

The project seeks to strengthen access to quality ECD for 4000 children aged 2 to 5 years old in Neno and Mwanza district.

This is achieved through the following strategies:

• Strengthening the co-ordination and management of ECD service providers at the district and national level.
• Empowering parents and caregivers with effective child care practices.
• Providing a safe and stimulating learning environment.
• Health, Right to food, Nutrition and Livelihoods Support Programme
• Ensuring that no child under the age of five dies from preventable disease, and all children in Malawi will grow healthily and have long-term good health. Provision of sustainable and profitable means of livelihoods, training of Income Generating Activities and financial management, support to Orphans, Vulnerable Children (OVCs’) and children with disabilities to attain vocational skills and provision of basic start up tool kits to beneficiaries and children affected by disasters and pandemics in the community.

Education Programme

Improving education so every child in Malawi receives a quality basic education. This is a cross-cutting activity in all the programmes of BOHF. It is an integrated activity. BOHF is supporting 200 orphans and vulnerable children by provision of scholastic materials, school fees and basic materials from support from well-wishers. We are getting a very big challenge in terms of funding considering the level of poverty resulting from the Cyclones and COVID 19 in the recent years. There are many OVCs that need support but the financial capacity of BOHF cannot support beyond the 200 beneficiaries.

Child Protection Programme

Working to make sure all children in Malawi thrive in a safe environment free from violence. Formation and training of child protection committees, community dialogue meetings, and support to community led initiatives on child protection, translation of key legal and policy documents into local languages, data collection on violation of children’s rights and supporting formal education for Orphans and Vulnerable Children in Malawi particularly in Neno district

Children’s Rights Governance Programme

Advocating so that all children will benefit from a strengthened child-rights system that advances and monitors the realization of their rights. Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) is implemented through governmental structures and processes for the equitable realization of children’s rights, while also informing broader debates including equity policies, public sector reform, good governance and aid effectiveness. Assess the effectiveness of governmental structures and processes in fulfilling the rights of children, especially those who are marginalized and excluded, in order to promote equitable policies and social inclusion;

Disaster Response and Management

Works with local partners with the aim to reach 50 million people affected by crises by 2030. In several regions, NGOs play a significant role in disaster response, mitigation, disaster reduction, and recovery, as well as coordination. Emergency food relief, temporary shelter, emergency medical aid, debris removal and habitat restoration, trauma therapy, and family raising were all part of the NGO response.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – WASH

The WASH Project Model is a set of evidence-based practices for the sustained provision of safe water, dignified sanitation and good hygiene practice across a variety of contexts. These practices are integral to achieving BOHF’s child well-being (CWB) aspirations and objectives. BOHF WASH’s targeted intervention settings: communities and households, schools, healthcare facilities and emergencies. It also describes the model’s underlying theory of change, evidence base, gender, enabling areas and WASH field operations planning, design and implementation.

Advocacy and campaigns

Through a global and coordinated advocacy strategy, we believe that we can multiply the scope of our impact beyond program funding and technical support to influence national and international policies. Child Protection Advocacy (CPA) is a set of specific interventions that focus on strengthening the child protection system (both formal and informal elements) at the community level, thus empowering communities and local partners to strengthen the protection of children from abuse, neglect, exploitation and other forms We campaign with children to remove the barriers that prevent children from surviving, learning and being protected, so that every child can reach their full potential.

We work so that in the year 2030:

• No child under the age of five die of preventable causes.
• All children receive a quality basic education.
• Violence against children is not tolerated.