African Education Aid

What We Do

As a group we believe that we can make a difference by providing the basic necessities for a school to succeed. We do this by improving the resources the school has by either a lick of paint or the construction of a building. We aim to make everything sustainable, so in the future the school can be self reliable.

Latest News

An image from our latest donation from KitAid which we sent over a couple of months ago which has now arrived. The kits were distributed to various school children and junior football teams across the nation in Lilongwe, Zalewa and Jandalala.

The image on your left is our most up to date photo of the work at Thandeka Secondary School. The image shows the Library and Laboratory which has now had the roof added as we look to have the school ready for the 2019 academic year. The work on the classrooms is also progressing well, with the roof and windows now added. For more images of Thandeka please click here.

A massive congratulations to the five students in Standard Eight receiving their meritorious award following the end of term assessments - Uchindami Mapala, Jossen Mapala, Gift Mapala, Jean Chanzie and Frank Hara. A special mention to Uchindami for achieving the highest score. For more images please see our gallery.

The African Education Aid would like to offer a big thank you to all the teachers at Jandalala for their tireless effort.
Sylvester Chanzie - English, Maths, Science, Technology, Life Skills and Chichewa; Rodgers Kaira (Headmaster) - Religious and Social Studies;Cliff Nyirenda - Expressive Arts; Roderick Muyila - Agriculture

Jandalala Results Day Breakdown
2017/18 - 14/16 Students Selected (87.5%)
In Malawi, there are limited number of available places in secondary school and sadly not everyone that passes the exam gets selected to go to secondary school. Your grades need to be higher percentiles of your cohort to be selected to go to secondary school.

The results are in from Jandalala Primary School and we are proud to announce that 14 students have achieved the grades to attend Secondary School next month. The results signify a great achievement for the school, with results at a record high.

Our first images back from the kits we sent over to Mzimba, Malawi. A big thank you again to everyone who donated kits to us to ensure we could send them. A special mention to West Hallam JFC and KitAid.

A big thank you to Amophi Shipping Ltd who have collected the kits donated by KitAid for us to send to Malawi and offered a 30% discount on the shipping cost. We will post pictures of the kits as soon as they arrive at Jandalala Primary School and Thandeka Secondary School.

Image of the foundations at Thandeka Secondary School for the Teachers Houses. As the work progresses, we try to ensure that we open for September 2019. We now turn our focus to working on the Library and Laboratory again and get more building work done there.

A long journey down to Hatfield in St Albans for one of our members today; to collect some football kit from KitAid to send over to Malawi.

We are aim to send the kit out in April ready to hand out in the summer, at Jandalala Primary School, Malawi. Keep an eye out for some images in the future

We are happy to announce that the African Education Aid will be partnering up again with KitAid, who we last worked with in 2012 to send over 500 Football Kits to Jandalala. We are currently collect more kit to send to Jandalala if you have any please get in touch.

For the last year we have been working on a new project to build a secondary school, called Thandeka in Mzimba. The aim of the project is to be one which is sustainable and allows students from a less affluent background to attend secondary school as many cannot due to the fees in Malawi for secondary education.

We have bought 7 bikes for Jandalala Primary so the student who get the grades to go to secondary school can use them to cycle the 14 mile journey. The total cost was £300 and the bikes will be returned to the school after use.