BoysAlert exists to proactively engage boys, helping them grow into responsible men, teaching them healthy masculinity and how to relate with girls and women.

We know there is a lot that goes on and around a boy-child when growing up because we have been there. Boys, especially from fatherless homes and urban slums are challenged at what it means to be a man, so you are perceived man enough when you do certain things.

Boys from fatherless homes are at greater risk for behavior problems than those who grow up with their fathers. Access to role models to guide and mentor at-risk boys, helps them gain confidence and manage anxiety better than their peers.

Among other things we do, Boys-Alert provides; useful advice, access to empowerment, funding education, mentoring, skills, sports spaces, and sometimes just a friendly shoulder to lean on, learning facilities and other critical resources they need to make their road less bumpy on their journey to developing into boys-leaders, that promote gender equality, and free from behavioral disorders.

• Frightening statistic. Estimates published by WHO indicate that 1 in 3 (30%) of girls and women worldwide have been subjected to either physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence or non-partner sexual violence in their lifetime.
• 34% of the women aged 15-49 in Malawi experienced physical violence.

• 14% of the women experienced sexual violence.

• 23% of the women experienced emotional violence.

• Early marriage- 42% of girls are married before age of 18 and 9% before their 15^th Early dropping-out of school is common occurrence. Literature indicates that girls at all levels of education are at higher risk of dropping out of school than boys. Teen pregnancy and school dropout have similar root cause including early sexual debut and poverty.

• Gender based violence itself has effects, such as homicide and suicide. Malawi has recorded a 57% increase in recent years since 2019.