How can you help?

 Since 2016, students at Evanston Township High School have setup and run fundraising efforts within the school. By collecting small bills and change, thousands of dollars have been raised and then transferred to accounts in Malawi where Mr. Nchessie could use it with his team to purchase land, seed, fertilizer, and pesticides, and also the digging of wells, solar powered pumps and infrastructure for an irrigation system. The irrigation system is key in allowing crops to be maintained during the dry season as well as future droughts. 

While most of the money has been raised year to year internally within ETHS, funds are also raised online through a GoFundMe account. This site turned out to be the sole way of fundraising in 2020 during the COVID pandemic, when ETHS was fully remote. 

You can make contributions any time at our 

Evanston for Malawi GoFundMe site. 

Every penny goes to our friends on the ground in Malawi since all transfer fees are paid for outside of collected funds. 

                            Stored maize from a recent harvest. Each harvest has a yield sufficient to feed some 1500 students for the entire school year!

                             Malawi student making a maize porridge from one of the harvests.

Keep in mind that $1 converts to around 800 Malawian kwatcha (as of July, 2021). A couple thousand dollars becomes millions of kwatcha in Malawi, which is a small fortune that allows for the purchase of multiple acres of land, seed, and fertilizer, as well as the construction of infrastructure as needed.