Likuni Girls' Secondary School | |
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Malawi | |
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Established | 1963 [1] |
Likuni Girls' Secondary School (abbreviated as LGSS) is a Catholic secondary boarding school for girls, located in Lilongwe, Central Region, Malawi. The school, run by the Teresian Sisters, achieves among the highest Malawi School Certificate of Education (MSCE) examination results in the country. [2]
The school has 600 students. In 2015 the telecommunications company Airtel Malawi donated cement to construct a school sports course, as well as 500 chairs for classroom learning. [3] In 2020 the school received a gift of 100 copies of a book about human trafficking by the activist Maxwell Matewere. [4]
In 2009, Mireille Twaigara, a Rwandan refugee at Likuni Girls, achieved among the ten best MSCE results in the country, winning a Zodiak Broadcasting Station award to study medicine in China. [5] In 2019 two students from the school won Zodiak 'Girl Child Awards' for their performance in the 2018 MSCE examinations. [6] [7]
The Likuni Girls alumni association has undertaken charitable activity on behalf of the elderly in Malawi. [8] Notable alumni include: