Collective Prosperity: New Warehouse for Crops in Malawi
Last May, as the last bit of twilight faded, I met with the leaders of the Manyamula COMSIP Cooperative in Malawi. The twelve of us sat...
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SIA Team
May 8, 20182 min read
A cooperative dream realized in Malawi
It was one year ago, that my book, Smart Risks, was launched into the world! In it, my coauthors and I, featured the power of grassroots...
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SIA Team
May 1, 20183 min read
Pay it Forward Day in Action!
This past Saturday was Pay it Forward Day, a day to experience the joy of giving and to remind people that love and hope exists in the...
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SIA Team
Apr 10, 20182 min read
Making Dreams Come True: Economic Migrants Return Home
Elias Mkhayi and Lyness Gausi both went to secondary school in rural Malawi. They married young and had dreams of continuing their...
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SIA Team
Mar 13, 20182 min read
Meet Sylvester Nkhoma, Entrepreneur
Sylvester Nhkoma’s house in 2011, when I first visited his farm in Manyamula, Malawi. It has a tin roof but no plaster between the...
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SIA Team
Mar 6, 20183 min read
A story to revive your faith in the internet…
…Specifically, a story to remind many of our readers of the privilege of the internet access that is all around us at all times....
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SIA Team
Feb 20, 20182 min read
4 Things Making Me Happy (including Black Panther)
A round-up of some exciting news from around the Spirit in Action network: 1. SIA partner recognized for anti-FGM work Samuel Siriria...
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SIA Team
Feb 6, 20182 min read
Meet Austin, Manyamula’s Carpenter
Austin used the SBF grant to buy wood. He already had a chisel, plane, and saw. On our first day of site visits in Manyamula, Malawi, we...
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SIA Team
Jan 23, 20182 min read
A tour around the Manyamula COMSIP Cooperative Training Centre
One of the highlights of my visit to Manyamula Village last May was the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremonies for the Manyamula...
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SIA Team
Dec 12, 20175 min read
But what do we have in common?
I shared the following testimony of faith and mission at First United Methodist Church of Point Richmond a few weeks ago. The message was...
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SIA Team
Dec 5, 20172 min read
Helping their children to have a better life
All around the world, parents have the common hope that their children will have better lives than their own. This was the hope of...
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SIA Team
Nov 28, 20172 min read
#GivingTuesday – Support entrepreneurs in Malawi and Kenya!
Supporting Families Wilson Nikosi (Manyamula, Malawi) “I did not even have a piece of soap or a blanket. I was using a sack to sleep on....
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SIA Team
Nov 21, 20172 min read
A Song of Praise and Thanks for SIA
Our last night in Manyamula Village, Malawi, the SIA team met with the Manyamula COMSIP cooperative management team to celebrate13 years...
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SIA Team
Nov 14, 20174 min read
Lessons from a coworking space in Malawi
This is reposted from the blog Centre for Social Innovation’s blog. I wrote it for my coworking community in Toronto. Halfway around the...
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SIA Team
Oct 31, 20172 min read
Taking a selfie with a cow
“The camera is right here!” I try – successfully! – to get a selfie with a cow at a Megabridge Foundation farm in Kenya. After our visit,...
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SIA Team
Oct 24, 20173 min read
“Mindset preparation” on the path to success
Guest post by Michael Hegeman, SIA Advisory Board Member. He traveled with me to Kenya and Malawi this year. “I’ll always be poor.” “I’ll...
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SIA Team
Oct 3, 20172 min read
Ripples of success even when a project “fails”
Mbwenu is not satisfied with the status quo. He is always looking at new ways of doing things. After visiting Mbwenu in 2014, I wrote...
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SIA Team
Sep 19, 20172 min read
A different way to keep girls in school
When we listen to the needs and solutions of the community, instead of providing our own answers, we sometimes hear something we wouldn’t...
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SIA Team
Jul 18, 20172 min read
What are the Malawian six food groups?
The tour of facilities at the grand opening ceremony of the Manyamula COMSIP Cooperative Training and Development Centre in Malawi...
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SIA Team
Jul 11, 20173 min read
“I didn’t even have basic soap”
When we met Wilson Nkosi at his shop in the Manyamula Saturday market last month, he started by telling us what his life had been like...
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