This article on Malawi in the Times travel section yesterday gives a beautiful picture of the country, if you have a chance: BEYOND the shores of Lake Malawi, known for boutique eco-resorts and well-heeled international tourists, there’s another Malawi — a whole country, if a tiny one, of chaotic and lively urban centers, green hills, [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
May 8, 2009
We are now beginning the sixth term of our pen distribution program that began in the fall of 2007. This week, we will distribute pens to over 13,000 elementary school children in Malawi, encouraging them to work hard and stay in school. Over the past year, attendance in participating schools has gone up by 30% due to the simple addition of pens in the classroom. This figure is higher among girls, who typically must drop out of school because family resources (including pens) are given to boys first.
We are now beginning the sixth term of our pen distribution program that began in the fall of 2007. This week, we will distribute pens to over 13,000 elementary school children in Malawi, encouraging them to work hard and stay in school. Over the past year, attendance in participating schools has gone up by 30% [...]
May 8, 2009
(Re)Blog for a Cause
Help us help our kids with your blog. Blogging add-on service Zemanta is going to donate $3000 to five charities who get reblogged the most before June 6. And we’d like to be one of them. What can Goods for Good do with $3000? A lot. Consider some of this: $39 clothes 80 orphans in [...]
May 7, 2009
(Re)Blog for our Cause
This is exciting. Blogging add-on service Zemanta is planning to donate $3000 to five charities who get reblogged the most before June 6. We know we’re new on Tumblr, but we’re going to give this a try. What can Goods for Good do with $3000? A lot. Consider some of this: $39 clothes 80 orphans in [...]
May 7, 2009
Play Ball!
After visiting Bright Vision Orphan Care and Youth Club in March, we learned that the youth club at the community-led initiative near Ngala Hills, Malawi had no soccer balls. Bright Vision provides nursery school and after-school programs for approximately 425 children. Last week, in addition to the fabric and notepads Goods 4 Good sent over, [...]
May 5, 2009
Goods 4 Good Photo of the Day: Pens!
Through our pen program, attendance has increased over 35% at Chakaza primary school.
May 4, 2009
African Women Are Often the Ones Who Go Hungry
This weekend, The Baltimore Sun had a story on the kinds of sacrifices that women in Africa are making on a daily basis. It’s worth a read: BULAWAYO, Swaziland – Phetsile Ndwandwe, short, skinny and 23 years old, accepts an apple from a development worker and nibbles at it, stripping the peel with her teeth before handing [...]
May 4, 2009
The Difference 27,000 Yards of Fabric Can Make
Last November, New York City’s Star Garments donated 27,000 meters of fabric to Goods 4 Good. Since then, our partners in Malawi have found numerous ways to make use of the fabric, from sewing school uniforms for nursery school students to making bedding for the elderly. They also realized that the raw materials would provide [...]
