When G4G launched our Match 4 Good campaign on December 1st our goal was to raise $20,000 by the end of the year to help fund our Tailor-in-Training Workshop, a program that teaches Malawian tailors how to create new school uniforms for orphans and vulnerable children in their communities. Just $1 is enough to fund [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2009
December 9, 2009
20,000 Uniforms for Good
This year, Goods for Good successfully piloted our Tailor-in-Training Workshop, a new program that teachers young adults, many of whom are orphans, how to sew. G4G provides these workshops with excess fabric so that these tailors may improve their craft and meet an important need of the community: new school uniforms. Many of the children [...]
December 3, 2009
Annual Rainbow Festival
We just received pictures from St. Mary’s Orphan Care’s Chaka Cha Rainbow festival, which celebrates the end of the academic schoool year and the beginning of the holiday season. The children supported by St. Mary’s programs participate in singing and dancing and perform in a talent show for the community. At the end of the [...]
December 2, 2009
Melissa Kushner, “Born to Do Good”
Melissa Kushner:”Born to Do Good” from Melissa Kushner on Vimeo.
December 2, 2009
G4G-Donated Center Benefits Community
In 2008 Goods for Good donated a community center to Nkagamira village to advance early childhood education in the area. This article, recently published in Malawian newspaper The Nation, discusses the centers various purposes and benefits within the community. Such encouraging and motivating results! Goods for Goods matches excess goods from the United States with the [...]
