Mamie Martin Fund

Mamie Martin Fund Educating Girls. Empowering Malawi. We support girls' education in North Malawi and have been doing so since 1993, working with local partners.

Mamie Martin, the wife of a Scottish missionary, lived and died in Malawi in the 1920s. A teacher in Scotland, she was passionate about educating the girls of Malawi who, at that time, were not given the chance to go to school. Returning to Malawi in the early 1990s, Mamie's daughter discovered that the situation had not changed all that much and founded the Mamie Martin Fund in her mother's memor

y. Many Malawian girls are unable to attend secondary school due to financial constraints. The Mamie Martin Fund was set up to ensure that no girl who has gained a place at secondary school should have to give it up because of poverty, and provides grants to fund the school expenses of girls in need. There are payments needed to the school and the girls also need many personal items and schoolwork items. We work with our partners, the CCAP (Livingstonia), the Diocese of Karonga and Mchengautuba CDSS in Mzuzu.

The girls at Embangweni Secondary School for Deaf or Hard of Hearing children are winners at Chess. We can help them to ...
23/08/2026

The girls at Embangweni Secondary School for Deaf or Hard of Hearing children are winners at Chess. We can help them to be winners in many areas by supporting their education. Our Wee Wander Kiltwalk this year is raising funds for girls in this school (through the Thompson Fund).

There is still time to join us for our 4.5 mile odyssey. Sept 13th 09:30. Sign up on the Kiltwalk site.

Hope you all have a lovely day and your feet won't be too sore!
16/08/2026

Hope you all have a lovely day and your feet won't be too sore!

Walk the Kiltwalk for Scotland Malawi Partnership and help strengthen the unique friendship between our two nations. Your steps raise vital funds to support education, community links and sustainable development. Together, we walk for lasting change.

Last 2026 chance to visit Humbie Dean garden tomorrow, Weds 12th Aug.Open 10:30 - 4. Supports the Mamie Martin Fund and ...
11/08/2026

Last 2026 chance to visit Humbie Dean garden tomorrow, Weds 12th Aug.
Open 10:30 - 4. Supports the Mamie Martin Fund and our work with girls at secondary school in

Humbie Dean is an informal two-acre ornamental, woodland and vegetable garden on a variety of levels, sandwiched between two burns at 600 feet, developed since ...

It is lovely to be in touch with Kondwani as he trains to shadow the Edinburgh Kiltwalk in  Here's a little video of a r...
03/08/2026

It is lovely to be in touch with Kondwani as he trains to shadow the Edinburgh Kiltwalk in

Here's a little video of a recent training walk -

Kondwani is training to shadow the Edinburgh Kiltwalk in Sept 2026

30/07/2026

Join us on Thursday, 13 August 2026 at 15:00 BST for a special collaborative event with the Society of Malawi for the launch of Blantyre: Urban Evolution - A Photographic History, a landmark publication celebrating the 150th anniversary of the founding of Blantyre, Malawi.

30/07/2026

Today is International Day of Friendship and we greet all our friends in Malawi especially. In the 33 years we have been working with our partners there, we have established precious and lasting friendships. Those friendships are professional in many cases, of course, but have developed into personal relationships in lots of cases. We, in Scotland, feel so privileged to know so many wonderful people and to call them our friends.

29/07/2026

Help Kondwani Mkandwire raise money to support Mamie Martin Fund

22/07/2026

🎖️S H O R T S T O R Y C O M P E T I T I O N 🎖️

Are you a health worker with a story to tell?

We’re launching our Short Story competition, open to all qualified health workers throughout Malawi and beyond! The first of its kind organised by .

Topic: “A day in the life of a health worker”

Instructions:
🖊️ 1000 - 1200 words
📊 More than 20% AI use your entry will not be put forward to the judging panel
🗓️ Deadline 30th September 2026
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Written in English
😶‍🌫️ Please anonymize colleagues and patient details if reflecting on real life experiences
📧 Submit with a cover page to [email protected]

Your submission will be put forward to a judging panel, with winners announced by the 14th December 2026 (if not before!)

We hope to give all our health worker colleagues an opportunity to be creative and escape the challenges of caring for others through this short story competition! We are not just health workers, but writers, artists and much more. Let’s showcase our stories!


Live in the UK? Could you help us to support girls' education in Malawi? Strong governance is essential if we are to con...
22/07/2026

Live in the UK? Could you help us to support girls' education in Malawi? Strong governance is essential if we are to continue to be a strong organisation. We need new Trustees to help us with that governance. You must have a verifiable UK postal address. We seek to have a wide range of people and experiences on our Board. Could you be one of those people? Message us on [email protected]

Thanks to our friends at The Bananabox Trust for the tip-off that this amazing-sounding theatre group are coming from   ...
19/07/2026

Thanks to our friends at The Bananabox Trust for the tip-off that this amazing-sounding theatre group are coming from to , this August. They are doing a show about Zambia's attempt to send a rocket to the moon. Yes, the moon. And back.
Sounds wonderful fun.
It's hard to work out what to see of the thousands of options in Edinburgh in August, so we offer you this idea! Support this group and have fun!
https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/afronauts

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