Category: Blog

Cooking Lessons!

As part of the vocational skills training at the school, students have engaged in cooking lessons. In January, it was time for standard 7 to prepare their own lunch! A teacher at the school taught pupils about different ways to cook and heat up food – including how to boil. Together, students collected all of the…
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Cream Tea Challenge Success!

FOMOE trustees and other fundraisers are continually devising new ideas to fundraise for the charity. Most are extreme feats of achievement, such as marathons, mountain climbs or skydives; this month James and Lizzie Brittain came up with a different kind of challenge… James and Lizzie provided 60 cream teas to visitors in their garden! Due…
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Outreach Program

Overall this involves training guardians and communities the importance of conserving and the use of natural resources wisely to prevent and ease some of the simple problems faced by the poor rural masses in tropical regions. Organic farming techniques and the use of natural herbal medicine is encouraged to reduce the overdependence of chemical, mono-cropping…
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Getting ready for the New Normal

Preparing for a new normal MOET reopened its doors to students on 7th September. After being closed for such a long time, like every school and establishment, education, training and processes are all needed to equip everyone to operate within the realms of the new normal.  Moet provided full training of all teachers from nursery…
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Student Nutrition

  The cost of living especially to rural Malawians is a real challenge. Food prices including Maize have increased making it not affordable for many of the families of our pupils. To ensure the nutritional needs of the students are met, MOET has changed its school feeding program to make sure that children are fed…
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London Marathon

London Marathon 2020 – Running for MOET

After visiting MOET last summer and seeing the lives of children who do not receive an education Agustin Moreno Cozar set himself a goal to fundraise for the school. FOMOE was lucky enough to get a place in the London Marathon this year which Agustin will be running. Please help Agustin reach his £1,500 target through…
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library

January update; Moet library gets a boost

Patterson was very pleased to return back from Germany with some more books for our library. Many people in Malawi enjoy reading but cannot afford to buy books. The books will help our students with subjects such as English, Maths and Science.  Moet students all have membership of our library and they are able to…
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January report: A-maize-ing harvest boosted by irrigation and planning

Moet has an irrigation scheme where a number of crops such as tomatoes and maize are grown. The school garden has been boosted by the rains from last year. It continues to prove a great way for the children to learn about farming and planning. In fact, we often find that our crops are ready…
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January update: Moet director returns from German conference and reunion with volunteers.

Moet director Patterson Majonanga has recently returned from Germany where he was able to meet with recent volunteers Paul Heck, Lena Braun and fundraising trustee Johannes Lau.  He also attended training and meeting on Sexual Violence which was funded by the German Government.  He was able to visit Frankfurt, Bonn, Trier and Koln during his…
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January update: New Year brings exciting learning opportunities.

Moet has a proud tradition of supporting our learners with vocational skills as well as traditional academic routes. Skills such as carpentry, clothes-making, cooking and ICT all form part of our regular programme.  And this new year has brought new developments that will enable us to reach even more children with these skills.  We are…
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