The Need for just a Simple Pencil

    Some things in this world defy translation and understanding. To explain an ocean to someone who has never left the interior of a nation is quite hard to explain. Snow and ice are hard to imagine by someone who has always lived in a lower elevation along the equator. The same can be said when it comes to a pencil. For people in western nations it is almost impossible to grasp what it is like to live in one of the poorest nations in the world where even a simple pencil is nearly impossible to obtain when a child is trying to attend school and accomplish their studies.

    Thus, as strange as it may seem in a culture where almost everyone can have multiple pens and pencils the Malawi Project will feature some simple, but critically important everyday items that need to be forwarded to Malawi during 2009. Each item will be featured a single time for a month on the Project web site and the request is to send in these items to the Malawi Project to be forwarded to Malawi on one of the trailers of supplies that will be sent to Malawi in 2009.

It is "Pencil Month". Simply send your pencils to the Malawi Project at the address below. We welcome this as an individual, family, church or school project.