- Embangweni
The town of Embangweni is located in the
Mzimba district in the Northern Region ofMalawi . It's population is approximately 5,000 people. Embangweni is some two hours away fromMzuzu .It contains a Hospital, Church, School for the Hard of Hearing, Robert Laws Secondary School and the a pimary school.
Hospital
Embangweni Hospital is a 134-bed
hospital which serves a population of about 100,000 people. It also operates 3 remote health centers located in Kalikumbi, Mabiri, and Mpasazi. Work to establish the Embangweni Station, by theReverend Donald Fraser and his wife, Dr. Agnes Fraser, missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland, began at the end of the 19th century. Donald Fraser had arrived in Malawi the end of 1896. Clinical work began at the hospital in 1902.chools
The Loudon (previously Embangweni) Full Primary School has over 1300 students and 17 teachers. It was founded in 1904 by Scottish missionaries. In 2002 they opened a new
Library and Administration building, funded largely by a church in the USA.The Embangweni School for the Hard of Hearing was founded in 1994. It is one of three such schools serving the needs of the hearing impaired in Malawi. In 2003, it was serving over 120 students with 11 teachers. In 2002, the school, along with the rest of the Embangweni Station, received electricity.
External links
* [http://embangweni.com/ Schools & Hospital]
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