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 memory. 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.
