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Malawi Initiative

The AGS Malawi Initiative exists to support educational programmes in Malawian schools and local Malawi institutions by providing capital infrastructure, educational facilities, communications and ICT. It also helps students and teachers from Malawi to experience an exchange visit to Aylesbury.

Its primary aim is to help foster educational improvements by providing teaching resources, beds, desks, power provision, satellite internet connection and building of classrooms at various schools, as well as building a new secondary school.

The initiative also supports medical improvements through the provision of equipment, such as surgical beds, glasses and mosquito nets.

More than a third of Malawian adults are illiterate, due to the poor education system that they grew up with. Unfortunately, education in Malawi has not improved much recently. Fewer than 9% of students finish secondary school.

For this reason, the 2023 AGS Malawi exchange will focus on constructing a new secondary school in the Zomba district to enable students to ameliorate and extend their education. To enable this to happen we have worked with the Malawi education board to find a suitable site. After finding a site shown (overleaf) at Msalabani, we then discussed the requirements and plans with the local community.

This is where we need your help meeting our fundraising total needed to complete the new school.

To donate visit our JustGiving page at https://www.justgiving.com/agsmalosa or for further details and information visit our webpage at https://malawi.ags.bucks.sch.uk/or email Mike Corby at mcorby@ags.bucks.sch.uk.

Mr Corby, Head of Geography Supporting Development In Malawi Through Education

Based around an exchange between Aylesbury Grammar School and Malosa Secondary School in the Zomba area of Malawi, the AGS Malawi initiative has maintained links with Malawi for over 25 years. It has run an exchange since 2007, with 7 programmes completed so far. @AGSMalawi