HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
HEALTH CARE
Healthcare providers -whether doctors, nurses, midwives or clinical officers - work exceedingly hard and, despite their education, often struggle to make ends meet. MCI helps to provide salary support and educational opportunites for these essential staff so they can continue to provide compassionate care under difficult circumstances.
Contact us to find out more about these programs if you wish to help.
Our Mission
Malawi Children’s Initiative strives to improve the lives of children in one of the poorest countries in the world, where the average citizen earns $754 a year. Each year in Malawi, 43,000 children under the age of 5 will die (7% of children will die before they turn 5). The leading causes of childhood deaths include malnutrition and treatable infections such as malaria, respiratory infections, and diarrheal illnesses. 70% of the population lives below the international poverty line of $1.90 per day.
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We hope to raise awareness about these conditions, raise funds to support vulnerable children and raise the hopes of Malawian Children.
News and Updates
January 01, 2020
24-Hour Run for Malawi
The 24-Hour Run and Festival for Malawi raised over $32,000! There were over 100 runners and 400 people at our festival!! Renovations for the lab in Malawi begin this week! THANK YOU to the runners, the pledgers and donators, and the friends and family who made this happen. We are so honored and overwhelmed by the love and support.
Founders of MCI, Drs. Elizabeth and David Fitzgerald honored by 97.9 The Hill news station as Hometown Heroes. Click the photo to hear the full story!
January 01, 2019
2018 Update
Click on the picture to review our accomplishments in 2018. Thanks to all our donors!!
December 23, 2018
Radio Interview with Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Listen to Elizabeth Fitzgerald, MD discuss MCIs work on WCHL, 97.9!! Click on the picture to listen.
November 11, 2018
Beautiful Children Sponsored by MCI
These are some of the amazing children sponsored by Malawi Children's Initiative. Without MCIs support many would not be able to attend school. Please help give them a bright future.
November 04, 2018
Newsletter Nov 2018
Check out our newsletter - click on it to read the full letter.
October 28, 2018
Dzama schoolhouse completed!
Malawi Children's Initiative is pleased to announce the completion of a new schoolhouse for Dzama Orphan School. Thank you all for your generous support of this project. Once started the school building was done in less than 4 months and for less than $13,000! Now 100 children can attend beyond the 4th Grade.
December 06, 2017
Old Stories
Want to read more about things Malawi Children's Initiative has done in the past?
How can you help?
More about Malawi Children's Initiative
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The seed of Malawi Children’s Initiative was planted between 2011 -2013 when the Fitzgerald family moved to Malawi to live and work. There they daily witnessed extreme poverty, malnutrition and illness unlike anything they had ever seen. Working full time as physicians, caring for adults and children with HIV, tuberculosis, malaria and malnutrition, they were inspired by the day-to-day struggle to survive of both their patients, and the people they met on the streets.
Outside of their work they wanted to do more. With a strong belief in education they started by funding school fees for children they encountered who were in need. They also tried their hand at microfinancing small ventures, providing food for children and guardians at the central hospital, and supporting a local social worker in her work. They also adopted 8-month-old twin boys who had recently been orphaned, bonding the Fitzgerald family forever to the people of Malawi.
After returning to the United States they have continued their support of the initial programs and have worked to expand them. Malawi Children’s Initiative was born of their desire to do more for the Malawians they have come to love and respect.
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For more of the Fitzgerald Family story see:
http://voyagetoafrica.blogspot.com/
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You can contact us or donate by check to:
Malawi Children's Initiative
121 Graylyn Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Email: malawichildrensinitiative@gmail.com
919-452-7247
MCI is a 501c3 non-profit
EIN number 82-0674504
All funds donated to MCI are used for care and education in Malawi, minus financial fees for donations and for money transfers.
©2017 BY MALAWI CHILDREN'S INITIATIVE. PROUDLY CREATED WITH WIX.COM