Atsikana Paulendo Private Secondary School

Atsikana Pa Ulendo — "Girls On The Move" — is an all-girls boarding secondary school in Lilongwe, Malawi, near Nsaru Trading Centre. Founding. The school was founded in 2006 by Christie Johnson, a Canadian teacher, and Memory Mdyetseni, a Malawian teacher, later joined by Memory's husband Henry Mdyetseni. The two founders met in 2000 as volunteer teachers at a rural Malawian school; when it closed for lack of funding they committed to seeing their first 24 students through their education, and after Memory earned her B.A. in 2006 they set out to build a permanent girls' secondary school. Construction began in 2007 on 23 hectares of land donated by local chiefs. (Source: malawigirlsonthemove.com/about/founders) The school today. It enrols 360 students, "most of whom are on full scholarship", and describes its mission as "dedicated to helping young Malawian women achieve self-sufficiency through education". More than 450 graduates have earned the Malawi School Certificate of Education; 70 are in post-secondary education, 50 in nursing programmes, and 80 have become primary teachers. The campus has classrooms, dormitories, a tree nursery, extensive gardens and a medical clinic, and there is also a primary school. Students give three hours a week to community service. (Source: malawigirlsonthemove.com/our-school) The supporting organisation, the APU Malawi Education Foundation, was registered as a society in British Columbia, Canada, in 2009. About Malawian secondary examinations: the Malawi School Certificate of Education, set by MANEB, is the final examination at secondary level and is awarded on a pass in six subjects including English with at least one distinction or credit, or five subjects including English with at least three distinctions or credits. (Source: maneb.edu.mw) MapXplore holds no Malawi-side phone number or email for the school. The contact details published on the foundation's site are Canadian and are not recorded here as the school's own.

4GHW+R8V, Lilongwe, Malawi
Lilongwe

13°52′13″S 33°32′45″E