Since March 2007 up to 480 children have been 'rescued' from tobacco estates in the district of Mangochi, once an important centre of slave trading on the southern banks of Lake Malawi.
"Child labour is growing at an alarming rate, mainly in the tobacco industry," said Gracious Ndalama, Child Protection Officer for the Active Youth Initiative for Social Enhancement (AYISE), a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that targets young people in Malawi.
