Creating great learning spaces
School buildings and infrastructure
Most schools in rural Blantyre 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.
A priority is for each of our feeder primary schools to have enough well-equipped classrooms, a fully resourced library, toilets and teacher housing. We are getting closer to seeing this become a reality for our partner schools.
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Developing Hope Secondary School has been a main focus. This school opened in February 2021, providing opportunities for the local children to continue their education.
The school has since grown and now offers over 100 spaces in each year group.
Their future starts today
Secondary School Development
Classrooms and Libraries
Toilets and Changing Rooms
Building and developing Hope Secondary School
Creating learning opportunities
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 120 additional places each year for primary learners from Hope4Malawi’s primary feeder schools who pass the end of primary school 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.
The school initially opened in 2021 for 50 children per year, but within a few years it was clear that futher development was needed.
With improvements in primary education, more children from Hope Secondary’s primary feeder schools are passing their entrance exams. There was not enough places for everyone.
The community vision was to build four more classrooms at Hope Secondary to enable two-form entry, doubling the places to 100 each year. A school hall was also needed for assemblies, parents’ meetings, exams, and other larger gatherings.
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Building started in 2024 to create these classrooms and a school hall.​
Classrooms and libraries
Changing life chances for children
Working 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 infrastructure and resources so that each each school has a library and enough classrooms for the children.
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Hope4Malawi's well-stocked libraries provide children access to over 10,000 reading and reference books, which is transformative for learners and teachers.
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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.
100% of all donations go directly towards development in Malawi
to enable children to have a better future.
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Mark 07951 956613, or
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