1 - Manyesa Primary School: Desks
Malawi, 2008, Education
The residents of the remote village of Manyesa, in Malawi, had built a small village primary school but had no money left for desks. The Global Uplift Project provided the wooden bench desks needed for the 60 children at Manyesa Village Primary School that were funded by the students at Burlingame High School in California.
- Project Cost $1200
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
2 - Manyesa Village School: Shoes
Malawi, 2008, Health
We sent 250 pairs of children's tennis shoes to the village of Manyesa, in Malawi. Malawi is the fourth-poorest country in the world and most of the recipients had never had a pair of shoes. One of the first things they did was to play a soccer game with the children from another village. They won the game. Was it the shoes?
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
3 - Manyesa School: Classrooms
Malawi, 2010, Education
We helped fund construction of the two new classrooms requested by the Manyesa Village School. To keep the cost down, we purchased the supplies needed for the roof, windows and doors, and provided the materials and brick moulds for the village’s families to hand make the 160,000 bricks needed to build classroom walls.
- Project Cost $14000
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
4 - Manyesa School: Teacher's Scholarship
Malawi, 2011, Vocation
Eliza Milenya wanted to study at the Malawi National Teacher's College so she could teach at the school where we have funded classrooms. When the teachers at a school in Los Altos, CA, heard that it would only take $5 from each of them to fund Eliza's scholarship, they immediately donated. She is now teaching at Manyesa School.
- Project Cost $600
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
5 - Manyesa School: Scholarship
Malawi, 2013, Vocation
Like Eliza Milenya, two years before, we sent Alex Nasawa to the Malawi National Teacher's College to earn his teaching credential so he could teach at the school in Manyesa village. He has completed his training and we have now reduced the student/teacher ratio at the school from 180:1 to 60:1. Thank you Los Altos teachers!
- Project Cost $600
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
6 - Manyesa School: Solar Lights
Malawi, 2013, Education
We installed the village's first-ever electrical system at the village school at Manyesa, in southern Malawi. It is a solar collection and storage system that uses panels on the school roof, and batteries, to power LED lights for two classrooms. This enables the classrooms to be used for community meetings and evening events.
- Project Cost $5000
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
7 - Manyesa Village School: Classrooms
Malawi, 2014, Education
The community asked us to build 2 more classrooms for Manyesa Village School which serves 1,200 children. As they did when we built classrooms with them in 2010, the local residents contributed labor, and they made another 160,000 bricks using the moulds and materials we supplied. We have now added 4 classrooms to this school.
- Project Cost $10000
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
8 - Manyesa Computer Lab: Solar Electricity
Malawi, 2016, Education
We installed a solar electric system for all the classrooms at the newly built high school in Manyesa. It will power the lights we installed in the classrooms as well as the outside safety lights, and the 4 current computers. We also installed conduit and wiring for a lab with 20 computers that will be installed later.
- Project Cost $11500
TGUP Partner: Kasimu Education Fund
9 - Manyesa School: Water Well
Malawi, 2018, Water
The old well in Manyesa produced only salty water. We drilled a new well that is now providing clean drinking water for the people and livestock, and irrigation for the crops. The capped well, with solar controls can produce up to 100 gallons per minute and is allowing the villagers to grow a second crop each year.
- Project Cost $5000
