Thanks to everyone who has supported our efforts so far - we are on track to hit our new target of £10,000! A big shout out to the Quarrelsome Dames who are just about to hit £1,000 on their page.

Your support makes a very real difference to a girl's life. On Monday, August 31 Elida Chithumba (pictured below) - one of our very first scholars - enrolled at the University of Malawi to start her maths education degree. Her ambition is to be a maths teacher. She would not have been able to get this far if she had not had a scholarship so she could complete her secondary education.

The world is in turmoil just now, and while we are all affected countries like Malawi, in southern Africa, are suffering the most. The World Bank predicts that this year three-quarters of its population will live below the poverty line.

When families struggle to eat, education becomes a luxury. Even the cost of a school uniform, compulsory in Malawi, is too much. And in Malawi there is pressure on girls to marry early, so sacrificing their secondary education.

Every pound our Kiltwalk 2026 team raises goes to replenish our Keep Girls in School fund which supports 200 girls in rural Malawi through all four years of secondary school. We recruit new scholars as the older girls pass their certificate exams and move on. And if a girl fails to pass her final exams, unlike most donors, we give her a second chance to repeat Year 4.

DID YOU KNOW?

• Keep Girls in School supports 200 girls in 8 schools in 4 districts in rural Malawi

• Our partner WOLREC is Malawi’s leading women’s rights NGO

• Across sub-Saharan Africa, 34 million adolescent girls are out of school

• If all girls completed secondary school, child marriage would drop by 68 per cent (UNESCO)

• A child born in Malawi today will reach only 41 per cent of its full potential (UNESCO)

• Experts estimate household buying power in Malawi has HALVED in last 18 months

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