Monthly Archives: July 2009

Student Profile: Laston Kadzuwa

Laston Kadzuwa is a twelve-year-old standard 3 student at Kapudzama Primary School. His favorite subjects are mathematics and science and he aspires to become a medical doctor when he grows up. Like so many Malawian children, Laston is an orphan. He lost his father in 1997 and his mother remarried a man who could not afford to care for him. Laston lives with his elderly grandmother and works hard to help her with household chores and perform well in school. With the help of volunteers, Laston’s grandmother registered him at Kapudzama Community Based Organization, a Malawian-founded and run organization that supports orphans and vulnerable children in a rural district outside of Lilongwe. Goods for Good provides materials to support Kapudzama’s programs, which include a tailoring vocational program. Laston enrolled in the Kapudzama nursery school in 2003 and has been involved with the organization ever since. Laston recently received a school uniform that was made from the fabric donated by Goods for Good. Laston’s new uniform will relieve his grandmother from the a financial burden and will help Laston stay in school so that he can achieve his goal of becoming a doctor.

ReBlog for A Cause, Part Deux

It’s Internet Week in NY and we’re hoping that our friends on Tumblr can help us in our battle to win $3000 from Zemanta.  The contest goes until Friday of this week, and we’re trying our best to get our reblogs together for the Goods 4 Good cause.  If you have a moment to reblog this post, [...]

Helping our Families Spend Their Money Better

  We spend a lot of time at Goods 4 Good bringing pens and supplies to schools and families in Malawi, and it’s nice to see the differences these materials make, no matter how small.  This week, Aaron Lewani, our program director in Malawi, spoke to the chiefs in Dzalo, a community where we have been distributing [...]

Election Day in Malawi

 

Guardian Weekly reader Gillian Bennett was in Malawi for the national elections last week, and it’s definitely an interesting read: Bicycles decorated with party flags and party colours added to the fun, as did the brightly coloured T-shirts and sarongs or “chitenges” as they are called here, specially printed with photographs of the presidential hopefuls worn by supporters [...]