MEET Ron Pottberg: Malawi Project BOARD OF DIRECTORS

By Malawi Project | September 27, 2022 | Comments Off

Ron Pottberg was born and raised in Alamosa, Colorado and later graduated High School in Olathe, Colorado. He is a third-generation Coloradoan with both sets of grandparents homesteading in Colorado. Ron and his wife Susan married in 1977 and have three children and eleven grandchildren. They have lived and worked in ministry in Colorado, Texas and South […]

COFFEE BAGS RE-PURPOSED FOR MAIZE STORAGE

By Malawi Project | September 23, 2022 | Comments Off

Lafayette, Indiana … Someone has said, “One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” While they were not considered trash by the management, the burlap bags bringing coffee to the roasting facilities of Copper Moon Coffee in Lafayette, Indiana were piling up with no place to go and no further purchase to serve. Literally thousands of them could […]

BOARD MEMBERS LEAVE FOR AND RETURN FROM MALAWI

By Malawi Project | September 20, 2022 | Comments Off

It is not easy to get up in the middle of the night to catch a flight that will continue all day, all evening, all night, all morning, and only end around one in the afternoon. Yet that is what has taken place with three members of the Malawi Project’s Board of Directors. During the […]

NINTH GRADE STUDENT PICKS UP THE CHALLENGE.

By Malawi Project | September 13, 2022 | Comments Off

It is hard to imagine there are parents who cannot afford to purchase a pencil for their school age children. But in Malawi, one of the poorest nations on earth, the income for many of the village families is only $ 1.90 a day.