Giving Tuesday
Giving Tuesday, which this year falls in Tuesday 2 December is a day of global giving where everyone is invited to do something for good causes that mean so much to them
Individuals are invited to volunteer their time, share skills, donate money or to choose another way of giving back to others in need.
Pope Francis recently wrote ‘Keeping our gaze fixed on the poor is difficult, but it is more necessary than ever if we are to give proper direction to our personal life and the life of society.’ He continued ‘ We have a shared responsibility for others and the world. Until we revive our sense of responsibility for our neighbour and for every person, grave economic, financial and political crises will continue.’
If you would like to donate your time, skills or cash to support some of the poorest people in Sitima, a very impoverished area within Malawi, the world’s 4th poorest country, please get in touch either by sending an email to enquiries@n4bw.org.uk or by pressing the red ‘donate’ button at the top of this page
Here are some suggestions about what your financial donations could buy
£3 Childs school uniform
£5 Hoe for working on the land
£10 Seeds for a family
£15 Dictionary for a school
£20 Maize to feed a family through lean months
£50 Sports equipment for a school
£100 Set of readers for infants
£500 Water supply and pump to village or school
£1000 Chairs and desks for a classroom
Other News
The start of a build at Nakhombe School
The members of the local community are making bricks for the foundations and the photograph shows the brick firing process in action
A great work ethic
Boys from the village offered to clean up the garden and worked steadily for a couple of hours before being rewarded with juice and biscuits
Jane returns to UK
Jane Colling is just back in UK following her first (and probably not her last) stint in Sitima. Jane has produced a reflective account of her experiences which you will find in the volunteer section.