Promoting access to education for children

Dear Supporter

We hope this report finds you in good health. First of all, we would like to thank you for your continued support towards our cause. As individuals with epilepsy, we go through so many challenges on a day-to-day basis, some of them being stigma and discrimination which in many cases contribute to the denial of our human rights. It is very important to keep in mind that when one right is denied the enjoyment of other rights is compromised.

Denying persons with epilepsy the right to education will eventually contribute to our inability to enjoy other rights such as the right to autonomy, descent work which will eventually lead to poor social and economic outcomes. We are passionate about promoting access to education for children with epilepsy because we would like to see a future where persons with epilepsy are able to enjoy their human rights and participate effectively in society.

In our last report we mentioned that we are creating a database for children with epilepsy attending school from the Chileka area in Blantyre District, I would like to update you that so far, we have received data for one traditional authority but we haven’t been able to visit the project impact area again as we are still mobilizing funds.

Case Study

In Late 2025 a parent with a child who has epilepsy engaged the Warriors requesting for support because his daughter had been forced to withdraw from school-by-school authorities. This is one example of how children with epilepsy are denied access to education and it just goes to show how important this project is in order to promote the right to education for children with epilepsy.

Dear Supporter

We trust this report finds you in good health. We deeply thank you for your continued support towards our project that seeks to promote the right to education for learners with epilepsy. Since the last progress report shared with you on 24^th June, we have been working tirelessly to create a database for children with epilepsy who are in school so that we should be able to track their school attendance, however this is still a work in progress.

This is initiative is been conducted so that we track the children from primary level to tertiary education level.

We are currently working to identify schools in the Chileka area with a high number of learners living with epilepsy. Our goal is to donate a first aid pod to the school with the highest prevalence of these learners. These pods are designed to provide a safe and dignified space for students to recover following a seizure, ensuring they receive appropriate care and support in a comfortable environment.

School authorities will be trained on how to use the first aid pod and we shall be monitoring its usage to help us identify if there is need for more of the first aid pods to be used in schools that have learners with epilepsy in Chileka in Blantyre District and hopefully this will save as a pilot and will be scaled up in other districts.

Our next activity will be to donate a first aid pod in one school in Chileka, train school authorities on how to properly use the first aid pod and filially orient learners on what epilepsy is, first aid for epilepsy an