ATSIKANA PA ULENDO (APU) MALAWI...GIRLS ON THE MOVE
Bringing Secondary Education to Malawi Girls ... BRICK BY BRICKAtsikana Pa Ulendo (APU) is dedicated to helping young Malawian women achieve self-sufficiency through education. Christie and her supporters are helping Memory achieve her dream to build a secondary school for girls in Malawi. Memory knows firsthand the impact higher education can have on the lives of young girls in Malawi. In reaching her dream of opening a secondary school for girls, Memory envisions the day when all girls in Malawi can reach their dreams too. PROGRAM DEFINITION
THE SCHOOL BEGAN OPERATION IN JANUARY 2008! See the movie on YOU TUBE HERE.
Memory Chazeza, APU's Director, and Christie Johnson, the Canadian Director, recently completed a Canadian fundraising tour.
On November 30 a benefit concert by the Cantilon Choirs was held at Robertson-Wesley United Church in Edmonton. Hear the choir and watch the video report here.
Listen to a November 2008 interview (in Victoria, Canada) of Memory and Christie and learn about the Malawi Girls on the Move (APU) Secondary School Project. (MP3 - plays in Windows Media Player and other media).
Memory's November 2008 trip to BC and Alberta was reported in several newspapers. Read stories of how Christie and Memory are realizing their dreams to bring secondary education to the young women of Malawi here:
- Goldstream Gazette (November 4) Building Education Overseas by Charla Huber
Oak Bay News (November 9) Education key to brighter future in Malawi by Kerrie-Ann Schoenit
Victoria News (November 13) Education for girls is key to brighter future in Malawi by Kerrie-Ann Schoenit
Sooke News Mirror (November 18) Memorable Message to Rotarians by Jim Sinclair
HEAR APU's adopted theme song, Young Women We, sung by Christie and Memory's first group of girls.
Read the latest edition of the the APU Newsletter HERE
See IMAGES and read about the selection of students HERE
Earlier photos of the construction site
Slide show of images from Henry's Village, Memory's Village, scenes around Lilongwe , and a September 2008 set of images of the school's activities.
Download a PowerPoint Presentation showing images of the school's progress HERE. (Takes 8 to 10 minutes to download)
