“It is thanks to you that I got my new job and that Vanessa, my 8-year-old daughter, is able to read.”, Mr Bulweya told us recently. Soon he will start a new job teaching lecturers in effective ways to teach literacy. And we’re so proud of the difference CharChar Literacy, with your vital donations, has…
“Are these really Standard 1 children?” We were asked multiple times, when we shared the video clips below. “Really!?” “What school is this?” Your support is helping to achieve amazing things through our project with Emmanuel University’s Demonstration School in Lilongwe! Tsokomkanansi Primary School is a government primary school where the University’s Student-Teachers can learn,…
Over 50 children’s authors have kindly donated signed copies of their books to online auction! You can bid on them over on our Auction Page until 12 June. And below, hear five of them talk about why literacy, and reading, is so important for children: Will you help children learn to read in Malawi? As…
We’re really excited to be building on the success of our pilot programme, which increased children’s literacy by 433% in just one year. We are now able to provide CharChar trained and supported teachers to a government demonstration primary school in Lilongwe. We’ve secured funding to run our programme in the school for two years,…
In 2021, your support has had an amazing impact! Thankfully, schools remained open from February and since then our project has continued to support children’s education with incredible results. Our pilot programme which retrained teachers had a significant impact on over 4,000 primary school children across 10 state primary schools. Using evidence-based, child-centred teaching and…
Hannah Hailu & Walter Tricks took on this cycle challenge for CharChar because every child deserves a chance to fulfil their potential, and that starts with becoming literate… Having both grown up in Malawi, where we were very aware that a lot of children weren’t in school. We have since learnt the sad reality that…
In June 2019 I decided to lead a trek to climb the unforgiving Sapitwa Peak in Mount Mulanje at just over 3000 metres in support of better education for underprivileged children in Africa. It was the third mountain I have ever climbed and definitely the hardest, with kilometres of scrambling on all fours (!) but…
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