Creating great learning spaces
School buildings and infrastructure
Most schools lack sufficient classrooms, so many classes are held outside or in temporary shelters. This makes teaching and learning challenging in the sunshine and almost impossible when it rains!
One of Hope4Malawi's goals is for children to have a great learning environment. We work with four partner primary schools that feed into Hope Secondary School: Chipwepwete, Chimwembe, Tapani and Mafunde, and we continue to support Mpemba Primary.
A priority is for each of our feeder primary schools to have enough well-equipped classrooms, a fully resourced library, toilets and teacher housing.
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Developing Hope Secondary School has been a main focus. This new school opened in February 2021 and provides infrastructure for four primary schools.
Over the next five years, a key aim for Hope4Malawi is to partner with the Ministry of Education to build and equip 12 classrooms, 9 toilet blocks, 3 libraries and 4 teacher houses.
Their future starts today
Secondary School Development
Classrooms and Libraries
Toilets and Changing Rooms
Building and developing Hope Secondary School
Hope Community Day Secondary School in Mabala Village opened in February 2021. Hope4Malawi continues to partner with the Ministry of Education to develop this Government-run secondary school.
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The school provides 60 additional places each year for primary learners from Hope4Malawi’s primary feeder schools who pass the Standard 8 exams.
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2024 was a milestone year for Hope Secondary. The school’s first 49 students to reach Year 4 graduated from secondary education after completing their final National Government exams.
Most students at Hope come from poor households and would otherwise not have the chance of a secondary school education.
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The school has four classrooms, administration and student toilet blocks, running water and five teacher houses. Solar panels provide light and power, enabling students to continue their studies after dark.
The fully resourced science laboratory, library and computer room offer motivational learning opportunities rarely available at other schools.
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It's a great working school but further development is needed.
With improvements in primary education, more children from Hope Secondary’s primary feeder schools are passing their entrance exams. Currently, there aren’t enough places for everyone.
The community vision is to build four more classrooms at Hope Secondary to enable two-form entry, doubling the places to 100 each year. A school hall is also needed for assemblies, parents’ meetings, exams, and other larger gatherings.
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​Can you help us expand the school’s facilities to provide a great education for more children in future.
Thank you for helping more children to gain a secondary education.
Creating learning opportunities
Classrooms and libraries
Changing life chances for children
Working at school in an indoor classroom, with access to a fully-equipped library, is life-changing for school children.
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In the last seven years, Hope4Malawi has funded nine primary school classrooms, three libraries, and three kitchens, built by local partners.
Our focus, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, is to help develop the feeder schools to Hope Secondary by providing classroom blocks at Mpemba, Tapani, and Mafunde primary schools, plus libraries at Chimwembe and Mafunde primary schools.
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Thanks to your help, we can make a real difference for children in Malawi. Whatever donation, big or small, it helps to bring hope for children at these schools.
Privacy for girls
Many girls in Malawi drop out of school when they reach puberty, due to cultural pressures of early marriage, pregnancy, lack of parental encouragement and poor sanitation provision.
Despite these immense pressures, many young girls have dreams and ambitions. They are determined to go to secondary school and make a difference to their working and home lives.
For privacy, schools need adequate girls' toilets and a changing room for changing sanitary products. We partner with the Ministry of Education and Headteachers to build toilets in primary schools. Why not help by twinning your toilet with a toilet in Malawi? It costs £2,000 for a block of six.
Through local partners, we support girls by providing training in menstrual hygiene, understanding cultural myths, and providing appropriate sanitary materials. This encourages them to stay in school.
Help to keep girls in school
100% of all donations go directly towards development in Malawi
to enable children to have a better future.
Direct
For a one-off gift direct to our Hope4malawi account
please transfer to
Hope4Malawi
Sort code 40-52-40
Account no 00022888
Talk to us
If you’d like to fund or part fund a particular project, please contact:
Mark 07951 956613, or
email info@hope4malawi.org