We currently have 31 children on our secondary school scholarship program in Malawi.

We work closely with a Malawi-based organization called Children in the Wilderness (CITW). CITW hosts orphaned and underprivileged children at two camps - Mvuu Camp and Chintheche Inn. The children are selected from local orphan care centers and primary schools and attend a week long camp. Approximately 100 children attend these camps each year and during the week of activities they learn about health, nutrition, the environment and working as a team. It is from this pool of children that our students are selected. Each child has gone through the CITW program and is known to the local counselors. There are follow-up programs and the counselors are in touch with all former campers. This gives us a unique way of keeping in touch with the students throughout the year to make sure that school attendance is steady and they continue to get good grades. In Zimbabwe we work with Children in the Wilderness who are headquartered in Victoria Falls.

"If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life." Plato

Photo Caption: (top left) Foundation President Gillian Rose with Chimwemwe who attends Namandanje CDSS. He walks 7 km to school each day and lives with an Aunt. He is in Form 3 and enjoys Geography and English. He hopes to attend university and study environmental studies and get a job with Wilderness Safaris. One of the books he is reading is Smouldering Charcoal written by a local Malawian author.

(top right) Symon Chibaka is Program Coordinator for Children in the Wilderness Malawi. Conservation and teaching local children to appreciate and respect the environment are part of CITW's focus. Symon has groups of local children (some of whom are on our scholarship program) growing seedlings from different species of indigenous trees for restoring the natural forest as well as four different species of exotic trees for domestic use - firewood and building. They will plant these seeds when they are more mature. When I was there they had hundreds being made ready for planting.