Construction Vision

Our vision is to bring HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION to poor girls in the rural areas to give them the very best chance of achieving their dreams and becoming self sufficient, independent leaders in the future.  

To achieve this, we need to attract highly qualified and experienced Malawian, preferably female teachers.  This is a real challenge as APU is located in the rural area, away from the safety, security and amenities of the city, which is where the majority of qualified teachers choose to live.  To attract these teachers we need to provide them with a place where they want to stay and raise their families.  Our teachers need to be taken care of, respected, and supplied with secure, well-maintained homes with running water and electricity.  We also need to provide them with teaching facilities, including classrooms and laboratories that will allow them to do their best teaching. 

Our sustainability plan relies heavily on being able to attract private students who will pay tuition that will cover the cost of their own tuition as well as the tuition of students on scholarship.  This means that we must be equal to or better than the best girls schools in the country, providing excellent living and learning facilities to give our girls the very best chance to succeed in their studies.

At APU we believe in using home grown labour and expertise, hiring both men and women from the Nsalu region as our carpenters, bricklayers, sand and water carriers, and carpenters.  Our surveyors, architects and engineers, including our Project Manager Henry Mdeytseni, the mastermind behind these beautiful, strong and cheaply built buildings, are all Malawian.  Our bricks are fired right on APU land out of soil found at the school site.  Our construction projects at APU employ over 300 people, many of whom are women.

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