LoFom Foundation
Fighting Poverty, Policy, and Bio-social Causes of Girls' School dropout in Malawi
Help Us Support Girls' Education
Despite diverse efforts by organizations and the government to actively promote girls rights and free education opportunities in villages and townships in Malawi, the number of girls who drop out of primary and secondary school continues to rise every year.
LoFom Foundation is a community of highly collaborative, intercultural, and supportive thinkers who are passionately fighting drivers of poor class performance, absenteeism, and school drop-out in girls. We identify:
(1) Inadequate menstrual care
(2) Poverty, and;
(3) Unfavourable local school policies
We are actively challenging discourse and narratives that normalize low class attendance, early pregnancy, and academic failure in girls.
Their shared experiences on menstruation and learning inform the direction of our projects. (A baseline assessment at Misesa Primary school, in Blantyre, Malawi )
TUITION SUPPORT
We have collaborated with communities and teachers to help us identify at risk girls and support them to stay in school. Currently, 21 girls are benefiting from this initiative.
MENSTRUAL CARE
From 3 to 7 days every month (85 days every year), menstruating girls are forced to “shy away” from the classroom. This initiative seeks to debug common misconceptions, norms, and myths about menstruation through health education, while leading local schools in building Dedicated changing Rooms
ADVOCACY
& TRAINING
We thrive to engage parents and teachers (PTA) to support reforms of local policies to ensure that at-risk girls or those who already dropped-out are reregistered and supported
RESEARCH
& STORIES
Through learning, experience, and stories, we reinforce our value of accountability, and collaboration. Read our articles to learn more about our projects and events.
See our Future
We have targets that push us to give in our best and make sure that we break our own records.
Monica is our inspiration to get as many girls as possible into higher education. As a proud Science and Nutrition freshman at the University of Malawi (Luanar), her smile says it all!
2023 GOALS
10 Dedicated Sanitary Care Rooms in 10 schools
1000 eco-friendly reusable pads hand-outs
50 Eco-friendly Reusable sanitary pads training programs
Advocacy through Dialogue (at PTA Level)
Our Partners
