ONE OF OUR BURSARY STUDENTS HAS A UNIVERSITY PLACE!!

WONDERFUL SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY


For some years, MSP has been funding students at the Mpasa Community Day Secondary School.  Many of the CDSS students (learners) are from very poor homes.  With little local employment, families survive on what they can grow, and - if they are lucky - any surplus foodstuffs that they can sell. Many cannot afford the £6 or so per term that it costs to send their children to secondary school.  For more information, see the page on School fees.

MSP has been running a bursary programme at the school for 5 years.  We currently support 45 learners.

In August we received the wonderful news that DAVIS JOHN, one of our bursary students, had been offered a place at Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources to study for a BSc in Animal Science.  There were apparently 24,000 applications nationwide for 3,000 university places this year so he has done very well.  And very few students from this poor part of the country - let alone those from the poorest of homes - are lucky enough to be offered a university place.


Davis John
Outside the office making a loan application

One of our advisers in Malawi, local head-teacher Dorothy Mafukeni, tells us that Davis is really hardworking and dedicated.  He is the eldest of 3 children.  He lost his father when he was very young.  His mother provides for them all with some piece work and subsistence farming.   He told us that he would have dropped out of school, had it not been for the MSP bursary.

We are determined to support Davis through university if we can, in the hope that he will be able to bring real long term benefit to the local community.  There are virtually no grants available now, and sadly, he has applied for but been unable to obtain a loan.

So we are looking for a donor or donors who would like to sponsor or part-sponsor Davis’s education.   The sums involved are very manageable.   I estimate the total cost of the 4 year course, including tuition fees and accommodation, at around £5,000.

If anyone would like to be involved or to find out more, please please let me know at themalawischoolsproject@gmail.com.