How we started
This video gives a brief history of how Makupo Development Group began in 2004 with two people, Doug and Nellie Miller and their family. The group was incorporated in 2012, and then went on to involve outside organizations, specifically OPSEU in Ontario and Vanier College in Montreal and many supporters. The initial projects they mention were completed in the early years of the organization which has expanded significantly since those beginnings, but the mission and underlying principles of the Makupo Development Group continue.
Our goal is to help break the cycle of poverty and underdevelopment in and around Nellie’s home village in Makupo, in rural Malawi. In Canada our objective is to fund-raise for projects at Makupo and to create public awareness about the conditions affecting the people living there.
We are dedicating considerable effort to fostering solidarity between our Canadian supporters and the people of rural Malawi.
Our goal is to help break the cycle of poverty and underdevelopment in and around Nellie’s home village in Makupo, in rural Malawi. In Canada our objective is to fund-raise for projects at Makupo and to create public awareness about the conditions affecting the people living there.
We are dedicating considerable effort to fostering solidarity between our Canadian supporters and the people of rural Malawi.
and now!
WE ARE REGISTERED WITH THE CANADIAN REVENUE AGENCY AS A CHARITY
Board of Directors 2022
Gwen Schulman, Chair
Melodie Hicks, Vice-chair and Health Advisor
Don Hetherington, Treasurer
Anne Hetherington, Secretary and Communications
Doug Miller, director and co-founder
Gwen Schulman, Chair
Melodie Hicks, Vice-chair and Health Advisor
Don Hetherington, Treasurer
Anne Hetherington, Secretary and Communications
Doug Miller, director and co-founder