Advancing Girls' Education in Africa

Advancing Girls' Education in Africa Empowering girls through education by providing scholarships, mentoring and career guidance in Malaw

In 2005, AGE Africa’s Founder Xanthe Scharrf was in Malawi as a graduate student intern attached to CARE. While in Malawi Xanthe wrote an article for The Christian Science Monitor about a local woman and her daughter who was not attending school because the family could not afford the $156 a year that the local secondary school cost or the required uniforms, books, and supplies (“What it’s like to

live on $1 a day”, July 2005). Readers of the article were so moved by the story that they sent donations to support the young woman’s education. The first AGE Africa scholarship fund was enough to support all six of the village girls who had qualified for secondary school. These first six young women pursued their education despite tremendous pressure to leave school and get married. Since 2005, AGE Africa has worked in a variety of school environments providing scholarships to girls. Over the years we have learned that scholarships alone are not enough to ensure that the most impoverished young women in Malawi reach the academic finish line. We now support students from many rural villages across Malawi at seven partner schools with a combination of scholarships, life skills education, leadership training and career guidance. What began as a vision for the futures of six young women from a single village has grown into a vision for girls nationwide.

08/25/2026

📅 It's official: Malawi's Ministry of Education has released the 2026/27 academic calendar!Term 1: 14 Sept – 18 Dec 2026...
08/20/2026

📅 It's official: Malawi's Ministry of Education has released the 2026/27 academic calendar!

Term 1: 14 Sept – 18 Dec 2026
Term 2: 4 Jan – 25 Mar 2027
Term 3: 12 Apr – 16 Jul 2027

40 learning weeks. School opens 14 September.

Save it, share it, send it to a parent who needs it. 💚

🎓 Congratulations, Irina! 🎉Last week, our Programs Coordinator for the Southern Region, Irina Monjomo, graduated from Ma...
08/19/2026

🎓 Congratulations, Irina! 🎉

Last week, our Programs Coordinator for the Southern Region, Irina Monjomo, graduated from Malawi University of Science and Technology with an MSc in Entrepreneurship. 👏

Irina is paving the road for girls across Malawi. This is the power of education, lived out by the people who deliver it.

Join us in celebrating her. We could not be prouder. 💚

08/18/2026

Meet Grace Jeremiah. One of AGE Africa's many amazing district officers! Thank you, district officers, for helping our g...
08/17/2026

Meet Grace Jeremiah. One of AGE Africa's many amazing district officers! Thank you, district officers, for helping our girls continue to fuel their passion for learning and independence.

🇲🇼 The Scorchers are in the FINAL.Ranked 153rd in the world. First-ever WAFCON. And now Malawi is 90 minutes from liftin...
08/14/2026

🇲🇼 The Scorchers are in the FINAL.

Ranked 153rd in the world. First-ever WAFCON. And now Malawi is 90 minutes from lifting the trophy. 🔥

Tabitha Chawinga scored twice, sister Temwa added another, and the 3-1 win over Algeria sent Malawi to a final nobody outside the country saw coming.

SUNDAY: Malawi vs. Cameroon. One of Africa's biggest for the title.

We work alongside girls across Malawi every day, and here's what this means: the ceiling everyone assumed was there? Still never real. 💚

To every girl watching the Scorchers this Sunday: this is your country. This is what's possible.



Photo credit: BBC.com

A bench, some papers, and a pen.AGE Africa tracks how our scholars are doing every year, every term, every week. When a ...
08/14/2026

A bench, some papers, and a pen.

AGE Africa tracks how our scholars are doing every year, every term, every week. When a girl starts slipping in a subject, we don't wait for the end-of-year results to tell us what we already know.

We arrange an academic clinic. Which looks different at every school. Sometimes it looks like a small group under a tree, or one-on-one teacher and student engagement. Breaking down and going through a paper line by line until our hard-working students know the information inside and out!

This is Grace, one of our field officers, working with our students!

End-of-term energy in Mulanje. 🧵Our scholars are turning scrap fabric into handmade doormats: cutting, weaving, braiding...
08/12/2026

End-of-term energy in Mulanje. 🧵

Our scholars are turning scrap fabric into handmade doormats: cutting, weaving, braiding, no machines, just skill and patience. A classic bit of Malawian upcycling.

School's done for the year! A well-deserved break is coming up. 🎉

🇲🇼 HISTORY. Malawi is going to the World Cup.Ranked 153rd in the world. Written off as no-hopers. The Scorchers beat Nig...
08/11/2026

🇲🇼 HISTORY. Malawi is going to the World Cup.

Ranked 153rd in the world. Written off as no-hopers. The Scorchers beat Nigeria, 10-time champions. Then Egypt, then Ghana. And booked Malawi's FIRST-EVER World Cup!

Not just the first for the women's team. The first for ANY Malawian national side, ever. 🔥SO EXCITING!!!

To every girl in Malawi watching the Scorchers right now, this is your country. This is what's possible. 💚



Photo Credit: ESPN

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