The Australian Secondary School at Nogwe, Malawi (The Australian Progressive Academy)
Girls' boarding facility / generator power suppy / computer education

Girls' boarding hostel facility for The Australian Secondary School at Nogwe (known locally as "The Australian Progressive Academy")  

A 50-bed girls boarding hostel, similar to the one above which was built at The Australian Secondary School at Kambona recently, is being built on the site of The Australian Progressive Academy at Nogwe.  

The new project, aimed at encouraging female students to complete their secondary education, comes amid a flurry of activity at the school site.  

The construction of onsite houses for the Academy's Principal and female Deputy is all but completed.  

A sturdy 15HP petrol generator airfreighted in from Australia will provide power for all of the school's lighting needs - a vital asset in the absence of an electricity supply line.  

The arrival of the computer coincided with the local purchase of ten desktop computers  

......and a number of laptop computers flown in from Australia  

.....and a pictorial array of library reference materials  

HIV/AIDS Education -Schools AIDS Day initiative  

The  Australian Progressive Academy teaches its students about all aspects of HIV/AIDS and other diseases as part of its courses covering sciencxe, biology and social studies. The school population if more than 400 includes a number of AIDS orphans and children living with HIV.  

The Academy is about to pilot an annual Schools AIDS Day to focus on HIV/AIDS awareness and the dangers of stigma and discrimination. It's hoped that this initiative may be copied in other Malawian schools.  

The Schools AIDS Day initiative started in Australia in the 1990's  

Schools AIDS Day

Schools AIDS Day is an invitation for school children to think about others struggling to live with HIV/AIDS by focussing on what happened to Australian schoolgirl - Eve Van Grafhorst - who died from AIDS when she was just 11 years of age.   It was her battle against stigma & discrimination that inspired the establishment of The Australian AIDS Fund Incorporated in the mid 1980's. Left: Flight Attendant Leeanne Langridge and First Officer John Gray with Air New Zealand National's (then) youngest honorary flight attendant, Eve van Grafhorst. click here to read more about Schools AIDS Day - its other brave young heroes & heroines.