Music With Purpose – A Benefit Concert for MCV

March 27th, 2013

If you’re in the Kansas City area, save the date for Music with Purpose – a benefit concert for MCV.  Singer and Songwriter Darryl Purpose will be joined by Soundz of Africa a group featuring traditional drums of Mali and Senegal.  A silent auction and Silpada jewelry sale will precede the show.
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MCV’s Annual Newsletter 2012

December 12th, 2012

The new Annual Newsletter is here. Click on the image above to read about more successful graduates, the completed EWB water project, our new director and more.

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Sewing Project graduates enter the workforce

January 16th, 2012

Click on the image above to read Nettie’s 2011 Sewing Project Report.

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No success better than this

March 27th, 2011

No success better than this.   #4
A Friend of the Hoe
Dyson Mulongo, age 23 is a successful graduate of the Malawi Children’s Village (MCV).  Out here one stops being an orphan at age 18.  His father, a subsistence farmer hoeing the fields with his mother every day in the rainy season, died when he was 8 [...]

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Good and Bad Things About Gracious – Student composition

October 18th, 2010

Below is a short composition by one of Gracious Secondary School’s All-Star composition groups:
Gracious Private Secondary School is located in Mangochi district, Malawi. It is on the shores of the lake, and is part of the Malawi Children’s Village (MCV). Gracious school was born on 15th January, 2006. Since then it has [...]

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Good and Bad Things About Gracious – Student composition

October 18th, 2010

Below is a short composition by one of Gracious Secondary School’s All-Star composition groups:
Gracious Private Secondary School is one of the most popular private schools in Malawi. The school is located to the south of Lake Malawi in a district called Mangochi. The school consists of many students both male and female from [...]

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The Composition Allstars, Group Two

October 18th, 2010

Esme Makhaza
I am Esme Makhaza. I come from Lilongwe where I used to live with my parents. Now I live in Mangochi with my grandparents. I have three brothers and four sisters. I am 16 years old and I am in Form 4 at Gracious Secondary School. My hobby is [...]

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The Composition Allstars, Group One

October 18th, 2010

Thocco Mulingo
My name is Thocco Mulingo. I am a Malawian by nationality. I come from Mangochi district. I am aged 17 and am the last born in a family of six. I did my nursery school at Phylo private school, and my primary school at Koche primary school. As of now [...]

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A newly arrived volunteer’s First Impressions

September 16th, 2010

It is not an exaggeration to say that I have wanted to come to Malawi almost as long as I can remember. My mother lived in and around Blantyre (the largest city) while her father taught at the university there. I grew up hearing stories about the ‘Warm Heart of Africa’: of [...]

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Welcome to the new MCV Website.

August 8th, 2010

Welcome to the new MCV website: www.malawichildrensvillage.org The new site uses a variety of media to make more information available to our friends and donors than ever before.  We hope that you’ll find the navigation easier to use than the old site, and that you’ll be able to find out everything you want to know [...]

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