Welcome to the Y-Malawi Giving Catalog.

As you look through this very special catalog of giving opportunities focused on the communities surrounding Nkhoma and Chilenje, prayerfully consider how God would have you participate in this amazing movement of His Spirit in Malawi, “The Warm Heart of Africa”. And as you help transform these precious people’s lives, God will transform your life as well!

Support for Opportunity International’s Work in Nkhoma

Provide the needed funds for micro-economic development and loans to the impoverished but hopeful people in our target Y-Malawi communities. These loans are helping the very same communities where your Y-Malawi sponsored children lives.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1004 $100 - Y404 1005 $500 - Y404 1006 $1,000 - Y404 1007

Support for Fisher Trainers Senders

Give Louise and her team the support they desperately require to continue their effectiveness among the villages of Nkhoma. Your gift will go towards the following immediate needs:

Office equipment and computers

Need for additional team members

Training of FTS team members

Training through area retreats

Women’s development programs

Expansion of children’s ministry

Select an item $25 - Y404 1000 $100 - Y404 1001 $500 - Y404 1002 $1,000 - Y404 1003

Support for Nkhoma Youth Department

Vasco needs your support to continue the work of training and discipling the future leaders of Malawi. Your gifts will go to each of the following immediate needs:

Leadership training

Income generating programs with cows and chickens

Printing Bible study guides

Office equipment

Additional staff, student ministry director

Construction of a hostel

Purchase of a 4x4 vehicle

Select an item $25 - Y404 1020 $100 - Y404 1022 $500 - Y404 1021 $1,000 - Y404 1023

Support for EAM Chief's Ministry

Support Amos and his team as he reaches out to this critically important group of leaders. Your gifts will allow the Chief’s Ministry team to hold regular training conferences and workshops, in addition to providing supplies, transportation and living expenses for the ministry team members.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1008 $100 - Y404 1009 $500 - Y404 1010 $1,000 - Y404 1011

Support for FaithQuest Missions

FaithQuest Missions is a faith-based ministry and does not receive compensation from Y-Malawi. Instead they depend on gifts from supporters like you. Your gifts of support will help to continue their role in leading Y-Malawi and advancing its influence with more churches in the US and more nations in Africa.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1016 $100 - Y404 1017 $500 - Y404 1018 $1,000 - Y404 1019

A dairy cow for protein and calcium

Boost a family’s protein and calcium intake by giving them their very own dairy cow. Capable of producing 200,000 glasses of milk in its lifetime, a cow is a gold mine of health for parents and children alike. You’ll also help a family earn money at the local market by selling extra dairy products. Offspring can be sold for extra income, too—or shared with other families, extending the impact of your gift!

Select an item $600 - Y404 0107 $60 - Y404 0109

Equip a woman or girl with job training

Widows, orphaned teens, women whose husbands do not provide for their families, and other at-risk women face hunger and shame because they cannot support themselves or their children. Your gift to provide vocational training through World Vision staff can change the life of such a woman or girl. You’ll provide skills instruction, materials, marketing training, and ongoing support that will open the door to a respectable, rewarding trade such as tailoring, hairdressing, jewelry-making, or dairy farming—and keep women and girls from unthinkable, soul-numbing choices like street begging or prostitution.

Select an item $25 - Y404 0721 $50 - Y404 0723 $75 - Y404 0725

A fishing kit to feed and support a family

Fish, a wonderful source of protein and income, are in plentiful supply in the inland rivers and lakes of Malawi. Yet many hungry families have no way to catch them. Your gift will provide an impoverished youth with equipment such as a fishing pole, hooks and lines, a fishing basket—and the satisfaction of providing for his or her family.

$45 - Y404 0669

Give 10 fruit trees to boost health and income

Mangoes, oranges, and other fruits are packed with vitamins and nutrients that growing kids need. In just two or three years, such trees can also yield enough fruit for much-needed extra income, offer shade from the sweltering heat, and provide seedlings to give other families their own start in tree farming. Bless a family in Malawi with a grove of fruit trees today!

$70 - Y404 0277

Small business loan for a hardworking woman

Put strength in the hands of an impoverished woman with a small loan she can use to start or expand a business—the income from which can help feed, clothe, and educate her children. As loans are repaid, the funds are used to provide new loans to others. Your gift today can be recycled by staff to help many women in the years to come!

$50 - Y404 0217

A well for clean, life-giving water

In Malawi, a well just 60 feet deep can bring new health and life to a village of 150 people. The well you help dig will be capable of providing more than 600 gallons of safe water a day for drinking, bathing, irrigating crops, and nourishing livestock. When World Vision drilling teams strike water, entire villages erupt in celebration because a clean water source can cut a community’s child mortality rate in half.

Select an item $85 - Y404 1052 $1,000 - Y404 0171 $6,200 - Y404 0169

Support the Nkhoma Orphans Project

AIDS has robbed more than half a million children in Malawi of one or both parents. Millions more have been affected by the loss of teachers, parents, doctors, and farmers—the very people children rely upon to provide for basic needs. The result has devastated the community of Nkhoma. Malnutrition runs rampant, and stunting affects more than half of the children under 5.

Your gift will help World Vision staff respond to the needs of 5,000 orphans and vulnerable children in Nkhoma by supplying things like:

Goats for nourishment and income

A newly-constructed school

Seeds, tools, and training for farmers

Age-appropriate HIV-prevention education based on biblical principles

Small business loans for hardworking families

A well for clean, safe water for the entire community

With the help of generous donors like you, the children of Nkhoma can escape the shadow of AIDS and poverty—and fulfill their God-given potential.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1012 $100 - Y404 1013 $500 - Y404 1014 $1,000 - Y404 1015

Construct schools or classrooms

Children in Malawi struggle to study in makeshift classrooms, dilapidated buildings, or in the open air with no building at all. The resulting danger and discomfort result in poor lesson quality, poor grades, and high dropout rates. Your gift to construct a school and/or renovate existing schools will help provide a permanent, safe learning environment that can benefit hundreds or even thousands of orphans and vulnerable children for years to come—and ultimately build a stronger community.

Select an item $100 - Y404 0271 $500 - Y404 1050

Goats, pigs, and training in animal breeding

Livestock can provide vital nutrition to orphans and vulnerable children and to those living with HIV or AIDS near Nkhoma. This initiative will train community-based organizations to breed and raise pigs and dairy goats, which will provide added nutrition to malnourished orphans and vulnerable children and to people living with HIV or AIDS. Twenty community-based organizations will be trained in pig farming and breeding, and 20 organizations will be trained in goat breeding. Five hundred pigs and 220 goats (20 male and 200 female) will be provided on revolving loan to the organizations for use by orphans and vulnerable children and those living with HIV or AIDS.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1060 $100 - Y404 1061 $250 - Y404 1062

Preventing HIV and AIDS

The next generation is the key to turning the tide on the worldwide AIDS pandemic. You can help stop the spread of AIDS in Malawi, where infection rates are rapidly increasing in vulnerable demographic groups like teens. Your gift will help train peer educators, and conduct community-wide campaigns to reduce cultural practices that contribute to the spread of HIV/AIDS.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1066 $100 - Y404 1067

Caring for those with HIV or AIDS

With appropriate support, many of those living with HIV or AIDS can live productive lives. This activity will target individuals living with these diseases to ensure they have access to the nutrition, health-care services, and psychosocial support they need. This initiative will train faith-based and community-based organizations to support and care for those living with HIV or AIDS, distribute home-based care kits for volunteers to use in caring for patients, establish gardens to provide the herbs essential to support those living with HIV or AIDS, and organize monthly group therapy meetings for those living with HIV or AIDS.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1068 $100 - Y404 1069

Caring for orphans

For children in Nkhoma who have lost a parent to AIDS, every day can be filled with fear and uncertainty. You can help protect a child in Nkhoma–not only for today, but also for tomorrow. Your gift will provide resources like supplemental food, support and care, and for older orphans, vocational training.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1070 $100 - Y404 1071

Increase food supply by providing quality seeds

The number one issue in Malawi is the shortage of food. Access to quality crop seeds is essential in areas like Nkhoma, where the vast majority of families rely on subsistence farming for food and to earn income. This portion of the Nkhoma Orphans Project will help ensure orphans and vulnerable children and those living with HIV or AIDS have access to quality seeds through seed multiplication activities. Twenty community-based organizations will be identified to implement the multiplication of corn, cassava, bean, and peanut seeds. Quality seeds will be “loaned” to these organizations, and the loans will be paid back with newly multiplied seeds. With access to improved seeds, orphans and vulnerable children and people living with HIV or AIDS will be able to grow more and better-quality crops.

Select an item $25 - Y404 1063 $100 - Y404 1064 $250 - Y404 1065

Provide office equipment upgrades

All of our Malawian Ministry partners need to upgrade much of their equipment in the field. This fund will go toward new laptop computers, printers, scanners, copiers and other equipment on a highest needs basis.

$ - Y404 1027

Provide vehicles for transportation

Nkhoma Youth Department needs a Toyota 4x4 to effectively do training and follow up in remote areas where the road conditions are poor. This vehicle has spare parts available locally and is not costly to maintain.

$ - Y404 1026

Construct a youth center

Provide funding for a Youth Center that will be operated by Vasco Kachipapa of Nkhoma Youth Department. It will accommodate 40 young people (two in each room) during training workshops and be rented out to other groups to provide funds to operate and maintain the facility.

$ - Y404 1024

Provide God’s Word in the Chichewa language

Your gift will provide Bibles and other Christian literature in the native language of the people of Malawi. These warm people are among the most receptive to God’s Word in all of Africa. You can help them experience the life-transforming power of the Good News through your generous gift.

$25 - Y404 1072

Provide for most pressing needs

Gifts to this category are for general/unrestricted use and will go to the most pressing needs for Y-Malawi, rather than a restricted/specific designation. All gifts to Y-Malawi are important to us and the people of Malawi, but gifts to this category are especially appreciated because they allow us the flexibility to apply them wherever they are most needed. This could range from responding to newly emerging needs as we hear about them to covering hard to define expenses that facilitate the advancement of the whole Y-Malawi movement and organization. Gifts of any amount are most appreciated!

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