TEST for MALAWI, a Malawian Charitable Trust registered in 2010 (number: TR/ INC 4820), was formed by a group of graduates from Linacre College, Oxford University and is a constituent member of the UK Charity, TEST for AFRICA’s family.
Its aim is to aid the social and economic development of Malawi by enabling bright but needy students to receive undergraduate education at Malawian public Universities against their personal pledge to work for the benefit of their communities and their nation upon graduation.
The fundamental philosophy behind the formation of TEST for MALAWI is the belief that one of the causes of poverty in developing countries is a lack of education. By enabling bright, yet financially challenged Malawians the opportunity to undertake local tertiary education through a programme of means tested scholarships in exchange for a personal bond requiring them to remain within Malawi, graduates are expected to make significant contributions to the social and economic development within their communities and their country.
Currently the majority of the funding for TEST for Malawi emanates from TEST for AFRICA, but the ultimate aim of TEST for Malawi is to become self-sustainable.
NEWS
December 2011
TEST for AFRICA and TEST for MALAWI are proud to announce that The Common Room of Linacre College, University of Oxford have elected to fund a four year Scholarship in Environmental Studies at Bunda College, University of Malawi. Jennie Travers, TEST for AFRICA Chairman added " that this magnificent act of generosity by the student body of the alma mater of many of our Trustees cements the relationship between Linacre and the TEST family. We will encourage a direct dialogue between the Recipient and the Linacre Common Room."
November 2011
We are proud to announce that the family of Robert Kafakoma, our Chairman of TEST for MALAWI, has generously committed funding for a Scholarship to be known as the Robert Kafakoma Scholarship in Agricultural Studies, which will be awarded to a very bright but needy student for undergraduate studies at his alma mater, Bunda College of Agriculture within the University of Malawi. This is the first Scholarship within the TEST structure in Africa to be locally funded.
November 2009
Following the appointment of Dr Nick Brown as a Trustee, TEST for AFRICA, Oxford University and Linacre College announce that in future, the Norman & Ivy Lloyd Scholarship will be preferentially granted to one of the top graduates from either TEST for AFRICA programmes in Ghana and Malawi. The intent behind this change in philosophy is to establish a competitive environment and ethic amongst the undergraduate cadre of TEST for GHANA and TEST for MALAWI Scholars to encourage maximisation of their performance and to achieve top degrees in order to qualify and obtain admission to Oxford University for postgraduate study, in the knowledge that they will have full financial support. Moreover, this change represents a significant milestone in bringing our partners' mutual interests closer together.
