Jane (C4C scholar in her 2nd year at Mount Holyoke College) was thrilled to return to Zimbabwe in January. After being away for a year and a half, she was quite homesick for favorite foods and good friends she left. While in Zimbabwe, she ran a weekend-long leadership conference for a group of teenagers.
Thank you to Brendan Murphy and the Autumn Hollow Band for organizing a fundraiser for C4C. On January 27, 2012, Will Dailey, Autumn Hollow, and The Rationales performed at the Regent Theater in Arlington. Crafts made by C4C young adults were sold and money raised will go toward enhancing the skills building program for youth
Very generous 4th and 5th graders at Dale Street School successfully raised $12,100 to help orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. On November 21st, students participated in a “Hunger Luncheon” where they donated $2 and ate only a bowl of rice for lunch. Over the next few weeks, groups of children organized additional money making
Recently, long time donor Jane Hale told a group of people that the reason she and her husband give money to C4C is that they know if they give it to us, it will actually get to the children. Unlike big donor organizations like United Way, C4C is run out of the third floor of
Coalition for Courage has now existed for long enough that a number of “children” have graduated and become gainfully employed, a feat that is quite amazing in a country where the unemployment rate is over 80%. According to the CIA World Factbook, Zimbabwe’s unemployment rate is 95% (2009 estimate that “also reflects under employment; true
In July of 2010, volunteer and long time C4C donor, Bridget McBride taught a group of 60 girls how to make washable pads. This past August, I got to sit down with the girls to see how their income generating project had fared over the past year. I was hopeful that they might have made
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Coalition for Courage admits children based on leadership skills and academic standing. We do not inquire about a child’s HIV status. Unfortunately, due to lack of access to HIV drugs, some children born to HIV positive mothers are infected at birth. When we discover a child is HIV positive, a portion of sponsorship funds pays
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I’ve been all over Africa – from the remote Namibian coastline to the glacial peak of Mount Kilimanjaro – but nothing quite compares to my trip to Norton this past July. Since Liz and I landed in Harare at night, my first look at Zimbabwe was all that could be seen in the headlight beams—mostly
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It’s somewhat unusual to see cars in Norton. Most of the vehicles speeding past are combies (small minivans packed with more humans than seems possible), so it was with some surprise that I noticed a clean white Buick pull up in front of Vitalis’s house. When I looked, I realized that the driver of the
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Thank you to Brendan Murphy and the Autumn Hollow Band for organizing a fundraiser for C4C. On January 27, 2012, Will Dailey, Autumn Hollow, and The Rationales performed at the Regent Theater in Arlington. Crafts made by C4C young adults were sold and money raised will go toward enhancing the skills building program for youth
Very generous 4th and 5th graders at Dale Street School successfully raised $12,100 to help orphans and vulnerable children in Zimbabwe. On November 21st, students participated in a “Hunger Luncheon” where they donated $2 and ate only a bowl of rice for lunch. Over the next few weeks, groups of children organized additional money making
In July of 2010, volunteer and long time C4C donor, Bridget McBride taught a group of 60 girls how to make washable pads. This past August, I got to sit down with the girls to see how their income generating project had fared over the past year. I was hopeful that they might have made
I can’t believe that almost three years have gone by since Arden and I lived in Zimbabwe. Just as I feared would be true, I find it gets easier and easier for me to get caught up in my own life here in Boston, and put off the work we do for Coalition for Courage
