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.

As we gear up to with matched funding from Postcode Lottery UK via the , here's a reminder of our world-famous Dalget...
17/06/2026

As we gear up to with matched funding from Postcode Lottery UK via the , here's a reminder of our world-famous Dalgety Bay Coffee Morning - happening on Sat 27th June this year. Be there or .....

Day of the African ChildThanks for all your support of our work for in Malawi. These young women are the future of .
16/06/2026

Day of the African Child
Thanks for all your support of our work for in Malawi.

These young women are the future of .

Our marketing team love an in-person meeting but usually have to work online. We are getting busy now with the BigGive ...
16/06/2026

Our marketing team love an in-person meeting but usually have to work online. We are getting busy now with the BigGive coming up next week. Watch this space for updates on how we are doing.

Don't forget our in Dalgety Bay on Sat 27th - see our event about that. Thanks to Angie Wynn and her team for all her work on that.

Be there or be square!

14/06/2026

Just a 55 second audio file about why we must continue to support girls' education in .

Next week (22-29 June) you can Double Your Difference to these girls by donating through our Big Give portal.
https://tinyurl.com/MamieBigGive

With Mercy safely back home in Mzuzu, we thank you all for your welcome to her during her stay in Scotland. We will post...
09/06/2026

With Mercy safely back home in Mzuzu, we thank you all for your welcome to her during her stay in Scotland. We will post up some more photos asap. For now, we want to let you know that we have been awarded matched funding from the BigGive for Small Charities Week. This means that any donations made through the link below, in the week 22-29 June, will be doubled.

Double your Difference! It's a no brainer!

Due to extreme poverty and traditional culture fewer girls than boys start secondary school in Malawi and fewer achieve their …

Tomorrow - Weds 3rd June - the only June opening of garden.Don't miss it. Wonderful woodland garden. These openings su...
02/06/2026

Tomorrow - Weds 3rd June - the only June opening of garden.
Don't miss it. Wonderful woodland garden. These openings support our work with girls in Malawi. really matters.
10:30am - 4pm
Admission £6.00, children free.
https://scotlandsgardens.org/humbie-dean/

Lovely to report on joyful fundraising for girls' education in - this time from . Thanks International House Braga an...
29/05/2026

Lovely to report on joyful fundraising for girls' education in - this time from . Thanks International House Braga and International House Torres Vedras and colleagues for your loyal support of our work. Thanks, too, for sharing these lovely photos.

This month the International House language schools in Portugal have been spreading the word about Mamie Martin Fund. International House Torres Vedras organised a hugely successful Bake Sale over 3 days and raised an incredible €475. The students learnt about MMF in class and were fascinated to s...

Thanks, One World Shop, for inviting Mercy to speak at this lovely event. Thanks, too, for the ongoing support of our es...
27/05/2026

Thanks, One World Shop, for inviting Mercy to speak at this lovely event. Thanks, too, for the ongoing support of our essential Ready to Learn Fund which enables girls to stay in school by providing essentials like soap, notebooks, pens and sanitary wear, sourced from Supreme Re-usable Sanitary Pads in Nkhata Bay. Supporting local businesses there!

Last night, we had the incredible opportunity to host a Meet and Greet with Mercy Sibande, the country director of the Mamie Martin Fund. The Mamie Martin Fund supports secondary education of girls in North Malawi. The Mamie Martin Fund currently supports 163 girls across seven schools, including 19 girls at a school for deaf children in Embangweni. Through our Magic Beans Loyalty Program, customers receive 1p of credit for every £1 spent towards the Mamie Martin Fund. Through this initiative, customers can support these girls in Malawi by donating their loyalty points towards personal care necessities for these girls. With the help of the Magic Beans Loyalty Program, One World Shop was able to donate £300 towards the Mamie Martin Fund thanks to our customers.

You can find additional information about the Mamie Martin Fund below:
https://mamiemartin.org/
Link to our blog post:
https://www.oneworldshop.co.uk/a-review-of-one-world-shops-meet-and-greet-with-mercy-sibande-of-the-mamie-martin-fund/

New post on our website, celebrating Mercy's visit.
24/05/2026

New post on our website, celebrating Mercy's visit.

We are delighted that Mercy Sibande, our Malawi Director, has arrived in Scotland. She brought the sunshine with her and she is much more comfortable when it is warm by Scottish standards. Mercy has already been meeting donors and supporters. She was ‘at home’ in the Edinburgh Botanics and had a...

Already Mercy has met many supporters and friends. Lovely weather for our 'at-home' in the Botanics in . Also great to ...
24/05/2026

Already Mercy has met many supporters and friends. Lovely weather for our 'at-home' in the Botanics in . Also great to meet Rachel Farey of the One World Shop and their new intern, Sarah. She is in the Kingdom of Fife now - a Board meeting and then some more meet-and-greet events.

We hope to see some more of you at events later this week and next. See our website for details - https://mamiemartin.org/events/

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