The District Social Welfare Officer in Mulanje Martha Mkisi says the eleven-year-old girl whose father, Group Village Headman Makokola, married her off to a Mozambican has been withdrawn from the marriage.

Young people in Mangochi have decried the tendency by NGOs operating in the district of implementing interventions that do not address problems faced by the youths, thereby slowing down efforts to end child marriage and teen pregnancies.

There is a shocking revelation that 82, 402 children dropped out from school in the 2018/19 academic year in the southern region alone.