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...

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...

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...

Elias Mkhayi and Lyness Gausi both went to secondary school in rural Malawi. They married young and had dreams of continuing their...

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...

…Specifically, a story to remind many of our readers of the privilege of the internet access that is all around us at all times....

A round-up of some exciting news from around the Spirit in Action network: 1. SIA partner recognized for anti-FGM work Samuel Siriria...

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...

One of the highlights of my visit to Manyamula Village last May was the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremonies for the Manyamula...

I shared the following testimony of faith and mission at First United Methodist Church of Point Richmond a few weeks ago. The message was...

All around the world, parents have the common hope that their children will have better lives than their own. This was the hope of...

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....

Our last night in Manyamula Village, Malawi, the SIA team met with the Manyamula COMSIP cooperative management team to celebrate13 years...

This is reposted from the blog Centre for Social Innovation’s blog. I wrote it for my coworking community in Toronto. Halfway around the...

“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,...

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...

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...

When we listen to the needs and solutions of the community, instead of providing our own answers, we sometimes hear something we wouldn’t...

The tour of facilities at the grand opening ceremony of the Manyamula COMSIP Cooperative Training and Development Centre in Malawi...

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...