Headmaster Fr. Simon Makuru, S.J. Enrollment 144 1st form Phone +265 991 05 14 00 | Gender Coeducational Address Kasungu, Malawi Founded September 2015 | |
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Type Government subsidized
Day & boarding Established September 2015; 17 months ago (September 2015) Administrator Fr. Aloyz Podgrajsek, S.J. Profiles | ||
Loyola Jesuit Secondary School, Malawi, opened in September 2015, is a joint project of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and the Malawi Ministry of Education which pays teachers' salaries. The enrollment is evenly divided between boys and girls. By policy, 25% of students are from poor families in Kasungu District, all of whom are boarders. The school was subsidized largely by the Gonçalo da Silveira Foundation of the Jesuits in Portugal.
Vision
The vision of the Jesuits in founding the school was inspired by St. Ignatius of Loyola and by Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J. Ignatius popularized in the Society of Jesus the Christogram IHS, from the first three letters of "Jesus" in the Greek New Testament. Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope, might be seen as an exemplar of how they see discipleship, the following of Jesus. Ignatius also introduced the motto, familiar to most students in the more than 500 Jesuit schools: Ad majorem Dei gloriam, "For the greater glory of God." And from Arrupe, a Jesuit Superior General in the post-Vatican II era, they clarified their goal as being that of forming "men and women for others" in all of their apostolic endeavors.