Community Sports School
We are currently in the process of building a City School and Community Sports Development Centre in Malawi's capital city, Lilongwe.
Lingadzi Academy Phase 1:
We are extremely excited about what is by far our most ambitious project yet. The project is the first of it's kind in Malawi. It will bring together a primary school, secondary school, top quality sports facilities, an HIV testing centre, a library and computer cluster, an agricultural development centre and a sports development centre all on a single campus within the city boundary.
The primary and secondary schools will deliver the conventional Malawian syllabus but the pupils will also benefit from extensive sports education, agriculture education and HIV/ AIDS awareness education, as well as access to computers and a library.
The school will become a centre for sport in Lilongwe. On the weekends the school fields will become home to leagues that will give thousands of children from the city an opportunity to play their favourite sport on a regular basis. The sports development centre will employ a body of coaching staff that will be trained, equipped and dispatched to schools across the city. Alongside teaching the city's youth effective sporting techniques they will also promote HIV/AIDS awareness. There is the potential for a coaching staff of 25 to educate thousands of children in Lilongwe.
The sports facilities will include football pitches, netball courts, tennis courts, volleyball courts, a gym, a running track and an area for field events. There will also be a pavilion for changing and showering. With the right staff and a lot of enthusiasm this scheme has the potential to yield a host of athletes able to compete for Malawi at international level.
Initially the academy will have 4 Secondary classrooms, one for each form, and 8 primary classrooms. These classrooms - as well as all the other school buildings - are going to be top quality to ensure an excellent, lasting learning environment; they are more spacious and have more natural light than typical classrooms, assisting in pupil learning and development. There will be a library block which also has a computer cluster to equip the pupils with all the skills and knowledge they will need in the modern world. The school will also boast laboratories for science, design and technology, and home economics.
The school will also have the possibility to make money through private computer lessons, private sports coaching sessions, use of its facillities and through private donations. This money will be reinvested in the centre, to ensure its continued development year on year.
Unusual Auction Raises Money For BFIM Library Project
Monday 16th August 2010
The recent Building Futures in Malawi Blues and Rock Garden Party went down a storm. Not only did a larger than ever crowd revel in the unique atmosphere that was electrified by some of the best musical talent in Colchester, the charity gift auction was an unusual turn of events. As regular guests of the BFIM music event will know, each year a cake is auctioned off to raise money to improve the lives of children in Malawi, but this year there was a surprise in store for the guests. An employee of sponsors High Position, an Essex based search engine optimisation company, offered themselves up for bidding in return for a night out on the tiles. In good spirit Kerry McCarthy was won by colleague Tobias Bowman and the pair spent an evening drinking fine wine and eating good food, followed by some dancing at a local nightclub. In total the event raised a stunning £5,900 which will go towards the latest project, building a community sports school which includes a secondary school, sports fields, community centre and library amongst many other things.
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