LifeNets Academy

Posted February 23, 2010

LifeNets has built clinics and a nursery school in Malawi.  We have been working in this country for the past 13 years with many projects including scholarships, livelihood development, water wells, medicines and more.  We were instrumental in a school improvement project with the Rotary Foundation. We wrote a grant proposal that successfully completed a 450 meter wall around a boys school campus in Lilongwe, Malawi.

We now want to embark on our most major project to date. It is a secondary school for children in the eighth through 12th grades in Blantyre, Malawi. We will call it LifeNets Academy.

A very special thanks at this moment for the Seattle Skyline Rotary Club for sponsoring a special fundraiser event for the Academy on April 17, 2010.

This period in the education of a young person is critical. Many students never get to this point because schools are not available or not affordable. It is at this point in their life that they will continue on to higher education at a trade school or University. Or, they will drop out and be at the mercy of 70% unemployment and a life of misery and poverty.

LifeNets Academy will:

      • Provide a high level of quality education
      • Prepare students for University level education
      • Teach Christian values and moral behaviors

The Malawi government selects relatively few primary students to go on to government schools. Because of this, private schools are important because they are able to offer a better education than the government schools which have poor learning materials and few teachers.

At this time we are waiting for the Malawi Housing Authority to grant us permission to purchase a piece of land to develop into this much needed private secondary school. The Malawi Housing Authority has asked us for a sketch of plans showing how the land would be developed. Once that is agreed upon, a full architectural drawing will be made to more accurately determine the total cost of this project.

Many of you have shown an interest in this project and funds have been donated to begin the building process. 

This project is intended to provide enhanced education to both paying students and LifeNets scholarship students.

The school will have a minimum of ten classrooms. The classrooms will surround a large meeting hall that can be used for various type meetings.

Included in the plans will be a LifeNets office and modest caretakers facilities. Since this project is to be cash generating, the segment that requires immediate funding is land acquisition, security wall and school construction. Much of the rest is to be self financed by the income.

We will be able to provide other services through night classes for adults who did not have the chance to go to school when they were young. There they will learn basic skills. We can provide opportunities for computer classes and also for business management courses.

We look forward to sharing more information with you as we have it. We thank you again for your support and interest in LifeNets and your commitment to our Mission which is to help in practical ways, develop self-sufficiency and help beneficiaries pass on their LifeNets benefit to others.