Preschool aged children come to our Child Care Centers (CCC) for two meals a day, as well as to receive Bible lessons and some very basic education.  Grades 1-8 attend classes at our CCC every day. They follow the standard government curriculum as well as Bible class. They also receive two nutritious meals per day and are provided with school uniforms.  Local people are employed to do the cooking and maintenance around the CCCs, in an effort to facilitate community involvement. A Reformed Presbyterian Pastor lives with his family in a house at the center and is involved with daily assemblies and teaching of Bible lessons.

After graduating from one of our Child Care Centers, Grade 9 children are accepted, based on their grades, into Timotheos’ own Christian high school: David Livingstone Christian Academy (DLCA). Here, students are provided with all of their basic needs, which include food, housing, school uniforms, books, and supplies. They are expected to provide any other personal support or extras themselves. Timotheos’ mission is to help orphan children become self-sufficient and one of the ways we accomplish that is by teaching them to not be reliant on our support for everything. At DLCA students follow the government curriculum which includes Bible Knowledge. They attend Saturday Catechism lessons and church on Sunday at the adjacent Reformed Presbyterian Church.

There are more than one million orphans in Malawi! Some live with grandparents, aunts or uncles, but for some that is not possible. Timotheos has responded to the need for shelter and care of some of the children in our Child Care Center (CCC) programs who have no one to live with by setting up a small foster home at each center. Foster homes mimic a family setting in that a mother is hired to live with and care for the children as her own.  Secondary mothers are hired to help with chores during the day.  Timotheos is currently providing full care for 70 children in our foster homes at the various CCC.

A tertiary education bursary is available to those students who have graduated from DLCA with high academic grades and upon a successful application to a public university, college, Vocational Training Center (VTC), or Teacher Training Center (TTC). By means of this bursary, these students are supported with school supplies, books, and a laptop computer. Tuition support is also provided subject to the student having successfully applied for and received the available government support package which covers a significant portion of their tuition.