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Karen's ride for Malawi

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

I am attaching the link for the most recent news article printed about our 'happenings'. We have had a couple exciting inquiries this week. As a result of this article, we had a man email saying that he spent time in Malawi in the late 60's. He is in the area frequently, as his daughter, who was born in Malawi, lives near us. We have also received an inquiry from a teacher who is interested in the pen pal program! We are excited about these developments. I hope to be able to attend to these new inquiries while working my other jobs, the paying ones!

We will soon be updating our website, because we have outgrown the one we have used for these past couple years. It is exciting that in these next 6 months I could be retired and have more time to devote to Educate Malawi...I really look forward to that and hopefully it will all go well for me to be able to do that. Always so many things I want to do to fundraise and involve more people...in time, I believe, it will all happen.

http://www.courant.com/community/hc-community-articleresults,0,5942637,results.formprofile?Query=35656HC

Enjoy the article....also, I will be posting photos and some sample letters from the pen pal program. It was exciting and we got some nice pictures and letters.




Sunday, September 26, 2010

September 26, 2010

It has been a very busy month since we returned from Malawi!

We have spoken for two organizations: Zonta International and the Cavalry Episcopal churh in Stonington, CT. Both organizations welcomed us warmly and were supportive and gracious to us. We thank you both very much!

We have compiled the information and photos from our 2 pen pal projects we conducted while in Malawi and will soon share that information with the children here in the U.S. We hope to continue with such projects as they seem to be a wonderful way to build understanding and awareness of the world at large while illustrating the great smiliarities we all share!

We have many fundraising activities in the works including a cut-a-thon that will be held October 3rd in West Springfield at DiGrigoli Salon and a Jam for Malawi concert to be held at Fly Wheel in Easthampton, MA on October 16th. More details about both events can be found on the website.

We have also begun to plan and organize the Ride for Malawi to begin on September 1, 2011 when Karen will ride 500 miles through 5 New England states to raise funds and awareness about the country of Malawi. The goal is to raise $10,000 to complete the current project, a classroom block which will hold 2 classrooms.

Stay tuned for more details about all the Educate Malawi happenings!!

Thanks to all who continue to support us and help to EDUCATE MALAWI!!

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

We have been back for one week today....time is such a funny thing!!! It was easier getting back into 'the swing of things' this time back, but life here is so busy and hectic that it is overwhelming at times!! Yesterday I was overwhelmed with all the things I could have been doing, that I did nothing!!! Oh well, today is another day and we will see how that goes!!

I am so grateful for so many people who are interested in what we are doing and willing to help in so many ways!! We have a lot of exciting upcoming events and speaking engagements and we are very much looking forward to all of that! I will be doing some work in this coming week on the website to post some more pictures and information. Also will be sending in some press releases to the papers to acknowledge the folks we have worked with on our pen pal projects, etc.

We did a pen pal program with Journey House; part of Natchaug Hospital in Mansfield, CT., a photo project with an organization out of Amherst, Saralinda Lobrose helped coordinate it, we will be speaking to the Zonta organization in Palmer this month, as well as the Calvary Episcopal church in Stonington, CT. We are working on a fundraiser concert to take place in Easthampton, MA next month, and are having a cut-a-thon at DiGrigoli Salon in West Springfield October 3rd!

We are working on some other exciting things as well...so stay tuned for those details.

I have sent out this information in other places, but will post it again: A wonderfully easy way to help Educate Malawi, Inc. is to change your home page on your computer to GoodSearch; everytime you search for something on your computer, a penny gets donated to us. Go to Goodsearch.com for details of how to do this and search for Educate Malawi, Inc.

Thanks all for being here!!

Off to work!!