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This is a journal of Brian and Kristy's experiences as Peace Corps Volunteers in Malawi, Southern Africa. This blog reflects our thoughts, experiences and opinions and not those of the U.S. Peace Corps
How to Contact Us!
Brian and Kristy Rolig, PCV
Peace Corps/ Malawi
P.O. Box 208
Lilongwe
MALAWI
Southern Africa
011265999118260 (Brian)
011265999118526 (Kristy)
We can receive and send SMS texts!
Peace Corps/ Malawi
P.O. Box 208
Lilongwe
MALAWI
Southern Africa
011265999118260 (Brian)
011265999118526 (Kristy)
We can receive and send SMS texts!
Love from Malawi!
Favorites
- Karen & Jay
- Austin & Sarah
- Beth & Dan
- Lick & Riz
- Peterson Family
- Christine in Australia
- Bryan and Keah
- CampSky- Our Peace Corps Summer School Project
- Batting for the Pink Team
- Britta & Lynden
- Cats All Around Us
- The Simple Lodge & Hostel
- Malawi Adventurez
- Musings of a Wandering Saint
- Spencer's Sub-Saharan Sojourn
- Langenfeld Family
- Peace Corps/Malawi Blogs
- filousa
- 2R5
- Poogler Blog
- Tsjaz Blog
- Nordlund's Blog
Who likes to read our blog?
Recent Reading by Kristy
- We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates
- Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
- Living By the Word by Alice Walker
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
- The Mammouth Hunters by Jean M. Auel
Recent Reading By Brian
- Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol
- Death Be Not Proud, A Memoir by Jonathan Gunther
- The Perfect Mile by Neil Bascomb
- All The Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy
- Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Candide by Voltaire
- Diet for a Small Planet by Frances Moore Lappe
- Word of Honor by Nelson DeMille
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Donations that will help with some of our projects
- film cameras
- Fat Crayola Markers
- English dictionaries
- Old calendars with good pictures of America or anything educational
- Zip-locks
- books- especially non-fiction
- chess boards
- yarn
Things that might help with our sanity
- crackers- especially Triscuts or Wheat Thins
- Cheese- waxed cheese, Parmasean cheese, fake cheese, whatever, we'll take it!
- Magazines
- Gum
- Anything that says "Just add water"
- Cyrstal Light, Powerade, Kool-Aid, etc.
- Any kind of nuts (except peanuts) or other protein sources
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Hey y'all, miss you guys for sure. When are you coming home? We'll be home for christmas for a couple weeks. Easy,
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MADONNA IS A FAKE HUMANITARIAN. SHE IS NOT EVEN THE PRIMARY DONOR FOR HER OWN RAISING MALAWI FOUNDATION. THERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN TWO DISCLAIMERS WHICH LIMIT MADONNA'S TOTAL 'MATCH' CONTRIBUTIONS TO A VERY LOW SIX FIGURES. LESS THAN 1/10 OF ONE PERCENT OF HER OWN MULTI-HUNDRED-MILLION DOLLAR FORTUNE. SHE IS JUST ANOTHER FALSE HERO PROMOTING HER OWN IMAGE AND HER OWN BUSINESS AGENDA THROUGH HER RAISING MALAWI FOUNDATION.
POTENTIAL DONORS: NON-PROFITS ARE NOT REQUIRED BY LAW TO BE EFFICIENT OR EFFECTIVE. ULTERIOR MOTIVES ARE VERY COMMON WITH CELEBRITY FOUNDATIONS. I SUGGEST THAT YOU CALL THE OFFICE OF RAISING MALAWI (888-72-DONOR) AND REQUEST THE ITEMIZED PROGRESS/EFFICIENCY REPORTS FOR THE YEARS '06' THROUGH '09'. THEY WILL EITHER MAKE A FALSE PROMISE AND NEVER FOLLOW THROUGH OR FLAT-OUT REFUSE. ITS A COVER-UP. THE RAISING MALAWI FOUNDATION HAS BEEN INEFFICIENT FROM DAY ONE. THEY HAVE BEEN MISREPRESENTING THEIR EFFORTS AND SQUANDERING DONOR FUNDS ON UNNECESSARY CRAP LIKE PRIVATE JET RIDES, SUPER HIGH END LUXURY ACCOMODATIONS, AND PR CAMPAIGNS FOR MADONNA. Don't believe it? Then make the call. I suggest that you secure those itemized progress/efficiency 'dollar in dollar out' stats from '06' to '09' before you donate one more penny. and don't let the phrase "shop now" fool you. Its a trick. Artist proceeds are donated from one piece of jewelry and one piece only (shown on the homepage). The rest of that merchandise is for profit. Even the over-priced 'I am because we are.' DVD. It was not produced for 'awareness' or the benefit of Malawi. Otherwise it would be sold to the masses at cost (A tiny little fraction of the retail price.). It also wouldn't be so laiden with images of Madonna. Don't fall for the PR/marketing tricks. Don't fall for the 'Madonna match' either. Its another trick. There have already been two disclaimers which limit Madonna's total contributions to just six figures. Less than 1/10 of one percent of her own multi-hundred-million dollar fortune. Meanwhile, she has been pleading with her fans worldwide for more donations without even telling them how much has been donated so far after three full years of fundraising.
We live in a shady world of trickery, corruption, and Earth shattering greed and hypocrisy. Even 'Good Will' has become Big Business. A cheap excuse to promote your own commercial 'humanitarian' image and travel the world (mostly poor but beautiful) on donor/tax payer dime. Actually charging your exclusive private jet rides and luxury hotel/resort stays to your own 'foundation'. Big celebrity/big business 'foundations' (PR firms) are notorious for this kind of waste.
Raising Malawi has been in operation for over three years now. They started taking donations from day one in '06' but waited over two years to fill out a simple 'non-profit' register form. To date, they still have not accounted for their total contributions worldwide or produced a single itemized progress/efficiency report for their donors to consider. The 'impact' page on the RaisingMalawi.org website only states the collective works of over 20 seperate 'partner foundations'. Each of which have their own sources of funding. No indication is made how much of that 'progress' was actually funded by 'Raising Malawi'. They also never accounted for the 3.7 million (net gain) they claim to have raised along with Gucci from a single event held in early '08' (The opening of the Gucci flagship store.). This is not how legitimate charities operate. I challenge the Raising Malawi (Raising Madonna) team to get their act together and earn a decent rating from any independent charity watchdog like CharityWatch.org.
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