EMPOWER “Empower”. I recently learned a bit more about what that word means. A little over a year ago, I attended a national conference for Parish Nurses and viewed a poster session about the Days for Girls program. (DFG) Days for Girls is a program that aims to enable teenage girls in third-world countries to attend school every day that …
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Sanitary pads to keep girls in school
Sanitary Pads to Keep Girls In School There are girls in Malawi and around the world who are unable to attend school because they are menstruating, a natural occurrence for most teenage girls. These girls do not have access to disposable pads. They use corn husks, leaves, rags, whatever is available. For 5 …
25 to Stay Alive
In our first mission trip in 2009, KOCM was feeding about 150 orphans a lunch of nsima (corn flour and water) and vegetables, twice each week. With the generous support of all of our MOCP members, they are now feeding over 500 orphans, FOUR times per week. Malawi experienced heavy flooding early this year which had disastrous effects on …
January trip to Malawi will help improve rocket stoves
Ken Ekegren will be returning to Malawi in 2016 with students from North Central State College to redesign rocket stoves that are used in Malawi. They hope that a business can be started selling these new rocket stoves. This article is from North Central State College Newsletter. For more information, click here for an article from the Mansfield News …