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3rd Annual Boot Scoot Barbecue Dinner and Auction Benefiting the LifeNets Developing Nations Scholarship Program -- March 6, 2010 at the Fort Worth Stockyards.  MORE!!
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2009 Boot Scoot


Another LifeNets borehole--this one providing fresh water to a community of 1000 people in Mulanje, Malawi.  We thank our sponsors for improving the quality of life for these people. (posted January 22, 2010)

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Loveness Luwanja receives LifeNets Livelihood Development grant for beauty salon in Lilongwe, Malawi.  Part of the grant included the construction of a shop

Take a peek at our latest - 4-fold brochure giving an overview of what LifeNets is and does.


Another successful LifeNets livelihood project....a Mini Shop in Lilongwe, Malawi that is providing a good living for a family.  Read this wonderful report by proprietor Wordsworth Rashid. This is what LifeNets is all about!
LifeNets installs water chlorinator system for Chizeni Clinic in Balaka, Malawi.
(Posted September 2, 2009)

New LifeNets North Dakota Website!  Announcing the 2009 Triathlon--it's different this year and you can be part of it no matter where you live.  See Ralph and Pam June 22, 2009  interview on KFYR Bismarck TV along with video clip.
New LifeNets Project in Suriname, South America for low-income children.  Read about our new exciting venture....

 

 

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LifeNets is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that develops programs offering practical assistance that promote the well being and self sufficiency of disadvantaged people throughout the world and, where possible, encourages them to pass on their LifeNets benefit to others.

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The story of Christina Davis' journey and mission to Malawi as told in feature story in the June 2009 United News -- Her blog can be found at http://www.travelpod.com/travel-blog/davisc./1/tpod.html  (posted December 31, 2009)
From Zimbabwe Tshabalala reports on a new LifeNets goat project managed from South Africa.    (updated December, 23, 2009)
LifeNets installs water chlorinator system for Chizeni Clinic in Balaka, Malawi (updated December 23, 2009)

Article about LifeNets Australia reveals regional work for Zambian communities  (posted November 22, 2009)


 

Christina Davis speaks to Seattle's Skyline Rotary about her LifeNets mission to Malawi from mid-January to mid-March 2009.  Christina was be part of the International Development Internship Program at Seattle University in collaboration with LifeNets.  See her blog right here

  
NEW LifeNets Wheelchair Project stories.  Read about some of the wheelchair matches that have changed people's lives.  
UPDATE on our work in Zambia over the past year by Kambani Banda, LifeNets Affiliate Director for Zambia  (posted February 9, 2009)
Joseph Eldridge, Charities Coordinator for the Central Indiana Better Business Bureau, and Victor Kubik make presentation about nonprofit assessment program at first annual Nonprofit solutions conference at IUPUI on April 16. (posted May 7, 2008)


Victor Kubik with Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon in Novgorod, Russia open air market. The two sales ladies were from the war-torn Dageston Republic working the bazaar to support their families back home. Read about our October, 1999 trip.

LifeNets work in the Chernobyl area is featured in the April 2006 issue of the Rotarian magazine that goes monthly to 1.3 million Rotarians in 33,000 clubs in over 100 countries. You may also download one of these versions


With the help of Rotary, LifeNets drills borehole in Blantyre, Malawi that provides water for 1500 people.
 
 

The story of the LifeNets Izabal Project on the Atlantic side of Guatemala.  Jon and Barbara Brightman from Chicago helped many children with shoes, school supplies and school fees.

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This short video clip is still being played on Indianapolis PBS TV station WFYI. It is from a Communities Building Communities segment hosted by former Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon (right). She speaks about LifeNets and its work. View the clip..... (posted  October 22. 2007)


Wonderful report from Vasyl and Irian Polichko in Vinogradov, Ukraine who operate soup kitchen sponsored by LifeNets, summarizing 2009 activities. (posted January 27, 2010)  

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LifeNets volunteer Cindy Harper  writes in the December 2009 United News about her and her husband Dan's work in Vinogradov, Ukraine teaching English as a Second Language to orphans and street kids for the past two years/(posted December 18, 2009)


Would you like a laminated poster to collect change for LifeNets projects? Can easily be placed in school, work or church. We will gladly send you one if you request it at change@lifenets.org. Be sure to send us your name and address.
Brother-sister Hunter (4) and Gloria (2) Williams of the Puget Sound Chapter of LifeNets donate some of their lemonade stand money to help LifeNets Vinogradov, Ukraine Street Children's Program. MORE


Dinner at former Indiana First Lady Judy O'Bannon's home in Indianapolis on September 8, 2009.  She invited international workers to discuss methods of helping more in overseas areas. She is host of PBS's Communities Building Community and a renowned civic leader. LifeNets has been associated with Judy O'Bannon for the past ten years. She is in the center of the photo. (See larger photo).
Once again, a beautiful Charity Tea was held in Piscataway, New Jersey on an ideally beautiful day June 28, 2009. The chief organizer was Dr. Barbara Walls who again put forth a phenomenal effort to raise attention and money for disadvantaged children in Balaka, Malawi where LifeNets operates the LifeNets Orphan Care Centre. LOTS MORE! (July 30, 2009)
This woman in Salima, Malawi was hit by vehicle in this wheelchair. It became unusable.  It sat for four years and she had to move around a big walking stick. LifeNets became aware of her and repaired the unique hand operated wheelchair for $129.  See story and photos.


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Wonder where some of the items you give LifeNets end up?  Read about this wonderful shipment to Malawi of eyeglasses, white shirts, toys, blankets and more. (July 30, 2009)