Only 27% of children in Malawi complete elementary school. Many drop out because they lack something as basic as a pen or a school uniform. Renald Banikani, pictured here, stopped going to school because his single pair of tattered clothing was unfit for the classroom. As the new school year begins, you can help Goods for Good [...]
Tag Archives: Orphans
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 [...]
