St Charles Lwanga Secondary School

St Charles Lwanga Secondary School is a Catholic secondary school in Balaka, the administrative centre of Balaka District in Malawi's Southern Region. The Catholic Diocese of Mangochi's published list of its parishes, schools and institutions includes St Charles Lwanga Secondary School, with the postal address P.O. Box 482, Balaka. The same list places a community of the Marist Brothers at St Charles Lwanga, at the same postal address. The Marist Brothers are a Catholic religious institute of teaching brothers, founded in France in 1817 by Saint Marcellin Champagnat to educate young people. The school's patron, Saint Charles Lwanga, was one of the Uganda Martyrs, killed in 1886 and canonised in 1964. In Malawi, secondary education runs from Form 1 to Form 4 and ends with the Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE), set by the Malawi National Examinations Board (MANEB). Balaka lies roughly 130 kilometres north of Blantyre and 200 kilometres south of Lilongwe, on the main route between the two cities and on the railway line. It was part of Machinga District until Balaka District was created in 1998, and its population grew from 22,733 in 2008 to 36,308 at the 2018 census. Fees, boarding arrangements and admission requirements have not been published online; the Diocese of Mangochi gives the mobile number +265 888 637 723 for the Marist Brothers' community at St Charles Lwanga.

XXX3+F33, Balaka, Malawi
Balaka

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