Community development

Our VPP Coordinators support and visit home to home the families of over 1,100 children in their communities.

Mobility is a major factor, as there is a lack of reliable transportation.

Your gifts will provide for four motorcycles for our VPP Sponsorship Coordinators

COTN-Malawi wants to hire someone to lead all COTN events at the COTN office in Malawi and assist with office work. This employee will promote COTN to the local community and increase efficiency in the COTN-Malawi office. He or she will raise funds, coordinate with local media, host workshops and conferences, work with Venture teams, and much more.

For COTN's staff in Uganda, a motorbike is an essential tool in caring for the children. It allows staff members to quickly respond to children's urgent needs by traveling on village roads inaccessible to cars.

That means, when abuse is reported in the village, this can help prevent harm to a child.

When a child is sick, this can mean the difference between getting to the hospital on time and getting there too late.

Olivia, one of COTN's former sponsored children in Malawi, is all grown up and ready to get married. But as a young couple in Malawi just starting out on their own, she and her fiance don't have all the resources they need for their upcoming wedding. 

Your gift will help to provide Olivia with a beautiful celebration on her big day. Thank you for helping us complete this final step in raising children who transform nations! 

In rural Malawi, children often get sick from dirty water and poor sanitation habits. Diarrhea and skin diseases plague entire villages. But these problems are easy to prevent if families have healthy habits.

Our children already have clean drinking water, thanks to generous partners like you. By creating community health clubs, children and parents can learn better sanitation habits. These clubs are also forums where entire villages can meet and share what they learn.

This project is fully funded! THANK YOU!

The sunflower is an extremely useful crop. At Chichere Farm in Malawi, where plenty of sunflowers grow, their oil can be extracted for use in cooking meals for our children, and the cake left behind after extraction can feed our livestock.

The people of Chirombo, Malawi, have identified the need for three drilled wells, in order to provide clean and safe drinking water to their children. COTN partners have already funded the first two wells.

By funding this, the third and final well in this series, you will be helping to provide all 2,000 of the children in Chirombo with clean water. This clean water means healthy children and families, and better opportunities for the future.

Access to clean water is essential in promoting good health among growing children. In the developing world, many children do not have access to a clean water source. This causes them to become sick, which can harm their physical growth and force them to miss school, stunting their mental growth as well.

Spreading the word about what COTN and partners like you are doing requires a movement of people. Area Community Representatives develop this movement by helping new partners become more involved in caring for children in need through activities like meal packaging events, SmilePack drives, and more.