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Thondwe Primary School has been open since 1924. In 2013 the school had over 1,700 students from year 1 to year 8. The large number of students means that some are taught in temporary grass roofed classrooms which leak when it rains. The school has encouraged its students by awarding text books. In
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In 2017 the school opened a library which was funded by a group in Scotland who have also twinned local businesses with their counterparts who are opticians, cafe owners, hairdressers and a craft group. The twinning has resulted in loans that enable entrepreneurs and women in particular to launch
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Thongwe has a poor population. In 2018 the local member of parliament Charles Tikhiwa estimated that there were 154 000 people in the district requiring food. He made an appeal to the government. Irrigation schemes were being created but communities around
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the second term tests are set and the first fifteen in every class gets a pair of shoes. In 2013 they took to rewarding students with shoes in a scheme supported by the head teacher Gosten G. Makwinja.
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who arranged for metal roofs to replace the damaged thatch roofs. Metal roofs have health benefits as they do not encourage malarial mosquitoes.
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hit and the whole of Malawi was badly damaged. The replacement of some roofs in Thongwe was funded by the Scottish twinned community of
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Many of the students do not have shoes and these are an advantage where the only toilet is a one pit affair.
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businesses. The two communities have been working together since 2008.
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Index

Thongwe is located in Malawi
15°30′18.5″S 35°26′15.2″E / 15.505139°S 35.437556°E / -15.505139; 35.437556
Malawi
Region
Southern Region
District
Zomba District
Time zone
UTC+2
Climate
Cwa
Zomba
Malawi
Shire Highlands
Lake Chilwe
Tropical Storm Ana
Innerleithen
precipitation
"Zomba Thondwe MP pleads for relief food"


"Shoes for Grades - Thondwe Primary School"
"Malawi News: Latest from the Thondwe Community Forum"
"January News from the Thondwe Community Forum"
"Borders performers to raise the roof at charity concert"


"Malawi, Africa | Tropical Storm Ana 2022 - Emergency Appeal n° MDRMW015 - Malawi | ReliefWeb"
"Weatherbase: Historical Weather for Zomba, Malawi"
15°30′18.5″S 35°26′15.2″E / 15.505139°S 35.437556°E / -15.505139; 35.437556

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