In only 8 days, six Goods for Good volunteers leave for Malawi! As part of our Go 4 Good volunteer program, this group will tutor standard 8 students at St. Mathias Primary School in Chezi, Malawi in preparation for their entrance exam into secondary school. With an average teacher to student ratio of 1:83 and a large [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
July 1, 2009
A New Kind of Orphan Care
This NYT article profiles a creative program that caretakers in poor countries are using to better care for orphans’ physical and emotional needs. In an effort to care for the 50 million orphans in Africa, a result of high death rates in pregnency and child birth and the legacy of AIDS and other diseaess, some orphanages [...]
July 1, 2009
Blues of Learning Under Trees
G4G Program Manager, Aaron Lewani, sent us an article in Malawian publication The Nation, about local school conditions. A desperate lack of school blocks is forcing students to drop out of school and teachers to loose dedication to their work. Rodrick Salambula, head teacher at Matsimbe Primary School, said that students who are forced to learn [...]
July 1, 2009
Malawi Needs New Approach to Fighting AIDS
Despite a falling AIDS-related mortality rate, changes need to be made to Malawi’s health care system to make better use of the aid it receives to treat AIDS and lower HIV transmission rates, experts say. Some crucial problems Malawi faces in its fight against HIV include a poor health care infrastructure and inefficient health insurance schemes. [...]
July 1, 2009
The Double Burden
As is the case in most poor countries, girls in Malawi are often burdened with the responsibility of becoming a wage earner in the family. Because the Malawi government only pays for primary school, many poor families send their daughters to work as domestic workers around the age of 14 instead of sending them to [...]
July 1, 2009
Ending Famine by Ignoring the Experts
This New York Times article explains the secret of Malawi’s recent record-breaking corn harvests. After a disastrous harvest in 2005 that forced 5 million of Malawi’s 13 million people to rely on emergency food aid, President Bingu wa Mutharika decided to reinstate fertilizer subsidies, a practice that many Western countries rely on themselves yet discourage poor countries like [...]
July 1, 2009
Goods 4 Good Innovators Dinner
Goods 4 Good’s first event of the summer was a huge success! Last night’s Innovators Dinner, an event centered around sharing creative ideas for our new media initiative, raised over $1,000 for orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi. In addition to the money raised, we met wonderful new supporters and heard some great ideas about [...]
