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 […]
MEET Ron Pottberg: Malawi Project BOARD OF DIRECTORS Read More »
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
COFFEE BAGS RE-PURPOSED FOR MAIZE STORAGE Read More »
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
BOARD MEMBERS LEAVE FOR AND RETURN FROM MALAWI Read More »
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.
NINTH GRADE STUDENT PICKS UP THE CHALLENGE. Read More »
When Lesley, her sister Kelley, and their mother Merrie, realized the simple items that were needed for Malawi women during their pregnancy, and their importance, they all decided to start making baby packs.
BABY PACKS – WITH LOVE FROM MICHIGAN TO MALAWI Read More »
Sakondwela Francisco, a storekeeper who crawled to work on his hands and knees each day, was looking for every opportunity to grasp new opportunities to improve his life.
MOBILITY FOR A DREAMER Read More »
Thanks to a major contribution, 2,000 reader glasses have been purchased for Malawi.
EYE GLASSES – STORY OF THE WALKING TREES Read More »
Saturday August 27 marked the ground-breaking for construction of the long-awaited medical Health Centre north of Dedza, Malawi.
DZIDALIRE BREAKS GROUND FOR Health Centre Read More »
In a world filled with border tensions and conflicts Malawi and Mozambique are examples of peace between nations.
MEDICAL SUPPLIES SHARED WITH NEIGHBORS Read More »
In recent months A. J. Batt has become involved with the Malawi Project and it did not take long for him to see to design a new invention for planting that would not require the up and down movements of the current method.
INVENTION COULD HELP MALAWI FARMERS Read More »
