stuff i found

Program Manager Patricia Schmiedigen brought back these beautiful drawings created by the children at St. Maria of Mediatrix, a G4G partner and orphan care center in Malawi. St. Maria…

Goods for Good provides material support to 183 community-based organizations, public schools and orphan care centers in Malawi. St. Mary’s Rehabilitation Center was our first program…

G4G’s new Malawi Program Manager, Blessings Lungu, received his B.S. in Environmental Health from the University of Malawi and has spent his entire career working with NGOs in Malawi. He…

Soccer is the favorite sport of the children we serve.  Yet more often than not, they have no sports equiptment with which to play. When they don’t have a proper soccer ball, they either…

Vice President of Malawi Joyce Banda requested the help of Melissa Kushner, Founder and Executive Director of Goods for Good, to help her secure essential medical equipment for…

Our 40 foot container packed full of donated excess goods has just arrived in Malawi!

After a long journey at sea, 800 calculators, 4,000 bottles of anti-bacterial soap, 2,800 …

The Goods for Good program department is very excited to announce a new addition to the team! Blessings Lungu will be continuing the work of Aaron Lewani as the Goods for Good Malawi Program…

October 15th is International Day of Rural Women.

International Day of Rural Women was launched as an empowerment and educational campaign in 1995 during a UN Conference on Women.  It is…

Waterfront Montessori School in New Jersey raised over $1,800 for Goods for Good through a student-run carnival. Each student created his or her own booth, which featured such awesome…

The story of William Kamkwamba, aka The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, is one of true ingenuity and potential.

From a small village in central Malawi, William was forced to quit school at…

This NYT article profiles Question Box, an innovative nonprofit telephone hotline that connects people from rural areas to the information they need. 

The concept behind Question Box…

The debate over foreign aid often pits those who mistrust “charity” against those who mistrust reliance on the markets. Jaqueline Novogratz, founder and CEO of Acumen Fund, proposes a middle way she…

Check out G4G Malawi Program manager Aaron Lewani’s article in Malawian newspaper, The Nation. 

The devastating drought that has swept across Kenya, the worst in more than a decade, has left over 4 million Kenyans in urgent need of food assistance. The drought has already killed…