“Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a mine worker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we have been given, that separates one person from another” — Nelson Mandela

Over half the population of Malawi live in poverty according to the Malawi Poverty Report, meaning that they live on less than 50p a day.

UNICEF estimates that only 15% of children in MMalawi go on to secondary education.

A lot of children in Malawi are orphaned. 4.5% of children in secondary education have lost both parents, and 10% have lost one (MALAWI EDUCATION STATISTICS REPORT 2021).