How You Can Help

...If you feel so inclined.  This is in no way pandering for charity.  Strictly informational for those of you interested:

Well, you can send me candy.  It's for the children...
But you can also send balls or books and school supplies.  Email me for more details.


Sponsor a student:
In the public secondary schools, fees are about 2500mk per term, of which there are three per year.That's about $25 per school year per student.  Interested?  Email me.


Pen Pal:
Want a Malawian pen pal?  They'd LOVE to practice their English on you and brag that they have a friend in America.  Interested?  Email me.


Looking for something more legitimate and tax deductible this holiday season?  Super quality NGO's and organizations I approve of:

Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP)
Throw a Peace Corps Volunteer a bone!  PCPP grants are PCV-written grant proposals of projects that you can donate to directly. I highly approve, because I know how hard it is to have a quality program that needs funding but is alas, forever stalled by grant approval politics and BS.
http://donate.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=donate

Operation Smile
Doctors go to Third World countries and operate on cleft palates and lips, mostly in children.  They do unbelievable work!
http://www.operationsmile.org/

Friends of Malawi
These guys are former foreign government workers or volunteers to Malawi who provide small grants for projects to current volunteers in Malawi.  They're the one's who got my health center solar electricity!  Project approval and grant money came quick with no strings attached.  The ultimate stress-free successfully funded and implemented project!
http://friendsofmalawi.org/

Never Ending Food
A Malawi-based permaculture organization -teaches environmentally safe and efficient agricultural practices and healthy nutrition
http://www.neverendingfood.org/

ANAMED
Grassroots natural medicine organization - teaches workshops on locally available natural medicines and remedies in the Tropics, where Western medicine (especially ARV's) is difficult to attain
http://www.anamed.net/English_Home/english_home.html

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