United World Schools www.unitedworldschools.org
United World Schools is one of the trusted partners with whom we have worked the most. It is a UK based charity with teams in 4 least developed countries, namely Cambodia, Myanmar, Madagascar and Nepal (all countries where we have also worked). Their mission is to ‘teach the unreached’ and to achieve ‘zero education poverty’. They can transform children’s lives by building schools and empowering communities where there would otherwise be no access to formal education at all.
Towards the end of 2025 we joined forces with them to plan and then build a new school at Namatoa in the remote southwest region of Atsimo Andreafana on the island of Madagascar (see Annual Reports 2025 / 2026 and video message below). There is a massive unmet educational need in this impoverished part of the country, especially amongst girls, where the population density is very high and attendance rates are very low. New schools in Madagascar have to be block built so that they are cyclone-resistant and material transportation costs are very expensive. Nevertheless, the construction work all went to plan and the rebuilt Namatoa School was officially opened in September 2026. It serves 816 children from 4 different local districts who will now have educational opportunities that simply didn’t exist for them before. As well as new classrooms, we have provided a new well, gender-specific toilets, hand washing facilities, girls hygiene rooms, new classroom furniture and new teaching resources which will enable the school to go from strength to strength in the coming years.
