Turner Employees raise money for Malawi
Every year Turner Broadcasting sends 20 of its employees over to Africa to build a school in an area that desperately needs help.
Starting on April 1st, for 10 days, Barry Jones, Marketing Executive, Commercial, TCM & Adult Swim, will be joining 19 other Turner employees to build a new school 5,000 miles away in rural Malawi.
This will be the third African school that Turner Broadcasting volunteers will raise money for and help to build. The first two schools are up and running in Mali and Rwanda. This project is to replace a very basic hut with a proper building and latrines in Kawiruwiru, Malawi.
Malawi is one of the world's 10 least developed countries and faces several challenges including food insecurity, the AIDS pandemic and poor education, which is critically under-resourced and as a result, a quarter of primary age children do not attend school.
Turner and the volunteers pay for the cost of the trip together, but each employee has to raise the money themselves to fund the building of a new school. Every penny donated (and every penny of gift-aid claimed) goes directly to the school costs, plus local builders and tradesmen which are employed, therefore benefiting the community as a whole.
To give whatever you can towards this project or to find out more about it, then visit Barry’s Just Giving page at:
www.justgiving.com/barrymalawi
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