Our friends at Goods for Good were on NBC’s “Making a Difference” segment recently. Check it out!
Here’s how Goods for Good describes themselves:
Goods for Good matches excess goods from the United States with the needs of vulnerable children in the developing world.
Every year, Goods for Good promotes the education and emotional development of thousands of orphans in Africa, primarily in Malawi. By providing materials for development, G4G ensures that a lack of basic necessities is not a barrier to their achievement. Through partnerships with companies in the United States and local organizations in Africa, we are able to provide much needed school supplies, clothing and health and hygiene products to orphans and vulnerable children, while at the same time reducing waste at home. Many of the items we ship to children were gathering dust in warehouses or were slated to be destroyed. On the other side of the world, these same products have an immeasurable worth to disadvantaged children. Together with our international and local partners, we work to develop sustainable care for Africa’s youth. Since 2006 Goods for Good has gathered, shipped and distributed over 100 tons of essential goods to over 500,000 vulnerable children in Malawi and Liberia.
ONE is campaigning to ensure that the Congressional budget does not cut foreign assistance programs like Feed the Future that help people break the cycle of poverty and hunger.
The Horn of Africa is experiencing its worst drought in 60 years. More than 11 million people, mostly nomadic pastoralists and farmers in south-central Somalia, north-eastern Kenya, and south-eastern Ethiopia, are severely lacking access to food.
2011 marks 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were documented. Take a closer look at the specific, achievable goals we must hit by 2015 to make this year the beginning of the end of AIDS.
As aid agencies warn more than 9 million people could be affected by a food crisis in East Africa, world leaders are failing to keep their 2009 promises to tackle the causes of chronic hunger and support farmers in the world's poorest countries.
