School Partnerships
The Mamie Martin Fund
The Mamie Martin Fund is a Scottish registered charity that supports the secondary education of girls in schools in northern Malawi. The Soko Fund has partnered with Mamie Martin since 2016. We run joint fundraising events in Scotland and work together in Malawi to support girls leaving school to access support to attend university.
Atsikinana Pa Ulendo (APU)
“Atskinana Pa Ulendo” means girls on the move. Central to APU’s vision is the idea of long-term development and sustainability. The school is devoted to improving the situation of girls and young women in rural Malawi through the power of education. Soko has been working with APU since 2014 and has supported some of their students to study for degrees in agriculture and engineering.
Responsible Safari Company/Rainbow Hope School
Rainbow Hope School was established to provide children on the southern part of the lakeshore with access to education. These children often come from fishing communities where finding money for school fees is very difficult. Soko is working with Rainbow Hope through the Responsible Safari Company (RSC), one the school's main sponsors, to offer university scholarships.
RSC runs expeditions and challenges in Malawi. One of their recent initiatives is to offer professional women working within STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) an opportunity to travel Malawi. As part of the expedition, RSC runs workshops with speakers from Malawi and overseas for Malawian women considering working in STEM, including some of our SGA graduates.
RSC runs expeditions and challenges in Malawi. One of their recent initiatives is to offer professional women working within STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) an opportunity to travel Malawi. As part of the expedition, RSC runs workshops with speakers from Malawi and overseas for Malawian women considering working in STEM, including some of our SGA graduates.
Malawi Music Fund
Malawi Music Fund (MMF) run week-long, residential music and education courses for orphans in the south of Malawi. The children come to Likubhula House, where they have the opportunity to play, sing and dance with input from MMF tutors. This offers the orphans a chance to enjoy themselves and gain new skills but also offers their carers a break from supporting them financially, something that is not easy for many families who have taken in orphaned relatives. In 2018, Soko supported one of the young women who has been supported by MMF to start her degree at Mzuzu University. The SGA will also be sending an intern to each of the music camps over the next year to gain work experience.
