our Mission

DUNCAN DARROCH-THOMPSON

1997 - Marie da Silva founds the Jacaranda School for AIDS orphans in her family home in Malawi.

2013 - By now the school is providing 400 students with entirely free primary, secondary and tertiary education, as well medical care and other support.

2014 - Duncan Darroch-Thompson spends three months voluteering at the school, and resolves to help them grow.

2015 - Jacaranda UK Foundation is established as a UK Charity and begins to raise money. Its main aims are in line with those of the Jacaranda School:
Building Schools - Providing Education -

Preventing AIDS in Malawi

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Trustee

Working at the Jacaranda School made me realise how much can be achieved by a dedicated team, and how important education is in the process of rescuing children who have been abandoned, by giving them the skills to make their own way in the world.

I started the Jacaranda UK Foundation so that we in the UK can help.

our team

Our approach
We believe in completing fewer projects to a high standard, rather than spreading our resources too thinly .

OUR History

Richard Hughes
Trustee

Matthew Darroch-Thompson
Trustee

Our founder

Background

We were founded in 2015, after some of the Trustees had experienced voluteering at the Jacaranda School in Malawi.

mission

Our aim is to support Malawian children orphaned by AIDS, and to make it possible for them to suppoert themselves through education.

Our mission is to give orphans in Malawi a chance at a better life. We give them access to quality, free primary and secondary education and help stimulate social development for some of the most disadvantaged communities in the world.

Our primary activity is supporting the work of the Jacaranda School for Orphans, which has been providing education, medical care, nutrition, clothing and safety to over 400 orphans in Limbe since 2002.

We are also playing a major role in helping the school to develop and run a Technical and Vocational College, so the secondary school graduates who do not go onto university have a chance to learn professional skills like carpentry, brick laying, tailoring, IT and hairdressing that they can use to ensure their own future is as bright as possible.

The school has been recognised worldwide, with the school’s founder, Marie Da Silva, being named a CNN Hero in 2008, and being awarded the Television Malawi Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.

Duncan Darroch-Thompson