France, May 3 -- At Nthunduwala Community Day Secondary School, surrounded by tobacco and maize farms at the end of a dirt road that floods in the rainy season, students in blue skirts and shirts stepped out of classrooms to watch technicians install a Starlink satellite internet terminal. Solar power had been connected the week before.

The school is one of 35 to benefit from the Tech Bridges To Malawi project, which delivers laptops and other IT equipment to rural schools in Kasungu District, in the centre of the country roughly 115 kilometres north of the capital, Lilongwe.

In many cases, pupils have never before had access to the technology.

"I am very happy to switch on the computer and learn what I can achieve with it," said Wasil...