Community Development

First VSL training & another CHE vision seminar

After many months of preparation, last week marked the first training of trainers for the Village Savings and Loans program! This entailed a full three days of training for 29 selected trainers (both men and women) from Rumphi, Mzimba, Machinga, Zomba and Mulanje. The primary task of the training was to get the trainees preparedContinue reading “First VSL training & another CHE vision seminar”

My [Ryan’s] Top Books of 2015

My brothers and I have long been keeping track of the books we read every year for the purpose of looking back and discerning which books had the deepest effect on our thinking and way of life. The following is brief recap of the most important books to me this year (note that not allContinue reading “My [Ryan’s] Top Books of 2015”

How you begin determines where you end: The difficult but formative process of starting a new program in Malawi

For those of you who know that we are working to implement two new programs of Village Savings and Loans and CHE (Community Health Evangelism), you will invariably remember us saying “we are working on it” for about 2 years now. So, in order to better convey where we are now, and so that youContinue reading “How you begin determines where you end: The difficult but formative process of starting a new program in Malawi”