Friends of Malawi: News

This spring a committee of FOM members began work to redesign the organization’s website, www.FriendsOfMalawi.org. We felt the website needed a fresh look. We also wanted the website to be able provide members more services. The new layout will have a wealth of educational information about the history, culture, environment, and current state of affairs of Malawi. It will provide FOM’s financial reports, information about becoming a member, donating to grants projects and applying for grants; information about traveling to and within Malawi; links to FOM members’ websites; photo archives; and even audio recordings of the languages spoken in Malawi and videos of dancing. Newsletters will be archived on the site. There will be bulletin boards to help people connect, and eventually a secure system to help you reconnect with lost FOM members. The site will not display any members’ personal information without their permission. We hope the new site will make it easier to keep the ties between FOM members strong, while expanding the number of people we reach.

The website was started in the mid-1990s by Don Lotter and then passed to John Strain in 1999. To both of them and many others, thank you. We would also like to thank Sam Roberts for transforming our ideas into actual web pages, full of color and sound. - Dawn Citrin, John Staub, Mike Waldmiller.