DATUM’s latest project is the construction of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and library classrooms in the existing Stepping Stones School in the deprived Mkondezi district of Nkhata Bay. Set up by teacher Alice Leaper, the school currently...
DATUM FOUNDATION believes that investing in girls’ education has the potential to transforms the lives of girls but also their communities. Girls who receive an education are less likely to marry young and more likely to lead healthy, productive lives. They tend to...
In 2019, DATUM raised funds to provide the Secondary School in Chisala with a specialised Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) classroom. This initiative was aimed at ensuring each pupil at the school would have hands-on access to modern computers. The...
In 2017 Trustees from DATUM FOUNDATION visited the new secondary school they are building in the remote village of Chisala in northern Malawi. They were shocked to discover that the 450 pupils attending school at that time had access to very few books and resolved...
For the children of Chisala and the surrounding villages the nearest secondary schools are 8km and 15km away. To attend school children need to walk there and back each day! With the support of the Malawi Education Department and Howard Brewer, we helped to develop...
