Well what a year it has been so far!! We have come to the end of a very eventful term. We welcomed our new 8 Lower Sixth into our boarding house and have been so impressed with how quickly they have settled into their schools and the boarding house. We have begun to see them […]
Better late than never in posting this! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!! We wish you all a wonderful break over this season. Well we did it! Another year down and another 8 students have left us! What a term it has been. The majority of the term was consumed by the final examinations […]
Well we have our final 8 – 4th intake. What a process – starting in September 2013 and finishing a few days ago. We have 8 wonderful students, whose lives will be radically changed. We will post another blog with information on each of them soon. Why I wanted to write this? I suppose through […]
To kick off 2014 I thought I’d share with you what Makomborero is achieving in Zimbabwe – from the perspective of a couple of our students. In the UK, access to free education up to A-levels is considered a basic right, but in many countries around the world, there is no such thing as free […]
As 2013 comes to an end we have been celebrating our Upper Sixth Students and their time with Makomborero. Many of these students have incredible stories of what they have overcome to get to this point. Mark and Laura and all of us at Makomborero are so proud of their achievements, not only academically but […]
On a date that is synonymous with the House of Lords gunpowder plot, Makomborero was privileged to take part in a House of Lords event in support of UK charities working in Zimbabwe. The event was attended by two of our Trustees Nicola Baldwin and Nathan Whitaker and here is their report. Over the summer […]
In September 2012, we were approached by Espoon yhteislyseo Upper Secondary School in Finland to partner with them as they ran a Global Citizenship Course learning about third world countries. Our students were asked to write articles about Zimbabwe, our culture, food, music, schooling etc. The Finnish students also shared information on Finland etc. It […]
As you know from our previous blog, most of our students have now started their university courses. Lesleen is studying Medicine at the University of Zimbabwe, and sent us this report: Hello Mr and Mrs Albertyn, I have just completed my first week of lectures at the university. Wow, the load of work is amazingly […]
What a great term it has been. 2nd Term of the academic year always seems to be the busiest – mock examinations, incredibly full co-curricular programmes, etc and our students have thrown themselves into all of these things whole heartedly. As has become our tradition, we celebrate all our students birthdays at one party each […]
