April, 2005 Report

The Australian School in Malawi....and the San Michel house for orphans

The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated has responded to an appeal by Malawi's Searchlight Foundation Orphan Care organization to build a combined primary/secondary school in the Msema village in the Phalombe area east of Blantyre. It's to be known as The Australian School. Malawi is one of the world's 10 poorest nations, with a population of 11 million people of which 65% live on less than one US dollar per day..

Making the bricks for The Australian School

Sketch of The Australian School in Malawi
It'll cater for up to 300 students (primary and secondary)

Below: Board Members of the Searchlight Orphan Care organisation at the Msema Village in the Phalombe district. The organization was established in 2002 to provide care and support of HIV affected/infected communities which are in desperate need of material and financial support

Pastor Duncan Nyozani
Executive Director,
Searchlight Orphan Care


San Michel - below - a new home bought by The Australian AIDS Fund Inc for orphans in the Msema village. Farmland has also been bought to help towards food self-sufficiency. There is also a San Michel hospice building just outside Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea which The Australian AIDS Fund Inc also helped establish and furnish.You can view this on our Papua New Guinea page of this website.

Both take their name from the original San Michel established in Melbourne about 16 years ago.

San Michel - Malawi

Celebrating San Michel's establishment and fresh supplies - April, 2005

Making the bricks for The Australian School

Sketch of The Australian School in Malawi

San Michel - Malawi