SOS Primary School, Mzuzu

SOS Primary School, Mzuzu, is a primary school run by SOS Children's Villages in Mzuzu, the capital of Malawi's Northern Region, in Mzimba District. SOS Children's Villages has worked in Mzuzu since 2002. Its page on the Mzuzu programme states that 340 children and young people learn at its school there, 110 children and young people grow up in its care, and 2,910 adults and children are supported in the community. The organisation says it trains teachers in children's rights and child-centred learning, and that its kindergarten prepares young children for primary school. SOS Children's Villages was founded in 1949 by Hermann Gmeiner, who opened the first village at Imst in the Austrian Tyrol. Headquartered in Vienna, it works in more than 130 countries and territories, providing alternative care, family strengthening and child protection for children who have lost parental care or are at risk of losing it. Primary education in Malawi runs from Standard 1 to Standard 8 and ends with the Primary School Leaving Certificate of Education (PSLCE), set by the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB). Tuition has been free in government primary schools since 1994. Mzuzu, Malawi's third-largest city, had 221,272 residents at the 2018 census. It developed around a tung oil estate started by the Commonwealth Development Corporation in 1947, became a city in 1985 and stands on the M1, the country's main north-south highway. SOS Children's Villages has not published admission arrangements, fees or a contact number for the Mzuzu school online.

G2H3+4M3, Mzuzu, Mzimba District, Malawi
Mzimba

11°28′20″S 34°0′15″E