Embangweni
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Mzimba
Mzimba is a town in the Mzimba District of Malawi. The district comprises descendants of Tumbuka and Ngoni peoples.The district of Mzimba comprises a number of Traditional Authorities from the Ngoni people. The head of these Traditional Authorities, or Paramount Chief , is M'Mbelwa IV.-Demographics:...
district in the Northern Region of Malawi
Malawi
The Republic of Malawi is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. The country is separated from Tanzania and Mozambique by Lake Malawi. Its size...
. Its population is approximately 5,000 people. Embangweni is some two hours away from Mzuzu
Mzuzu
Mzuzu is the capital of Malawi's Northern Region and is the third largest city, by population, in Malawi. The City has 128,432 residents plus 20,000 commuters with about 1.7 million people living around the outskirts of the city...
.
It contains a Hospital, Church, School for the Hard of Hearing, Robert Laws Secondary School and a primary school.
Hospital
Embangweni Hospital is a 134-bed hospitalHospital
A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....
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 the Reverend Donald Fraser and his wife, Dr. Agnes Fraser, missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland
Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900)
The Free Church of Scotland is a Scottish denomination which was formed in 1843 by a large withdrawal from the established Church of Scotland in a schism known as the "Disruption of 1843"...
, began at the end of the 19th century. Donald Fraser had arrived in Malawi at the end of 1896. Clinical work began at the hospital in 1902.
Schools
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 LibraryLibrary
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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.