Business Wire - October 3, 2006
The Pendulum Project is a non-profit humanitarian organization that helps families and communities care for, support, and protect orphans and vulnerable children in Malawi, a sub-Saharan African country, where the AIDS epidemic is raging. In Malawi, the eighth poorest nation in the world, the number of orphans and children at risk is growing exponentially. We empower local, "on the ground" Malawi-based organizations that need help doing the hard work necessary to combat poverty, disease, and human suffering. With offices in both the United States and Malawi, The Pendulum Project provides frontline, hands-on, tangible resources - the small grants, personnel support, training, basic technology, and medical supplies that give these orphaned and vulnerable children a fighting chance to overcome the devastating effects of this pandemic.
"Malawi is in a desperate battle for survival," said Ellen McCurley, Executive Director of the Pendulum Project. "We feel passionately that this is the day we need to turn this horrible human tragedy around. We believe there is a way to build that bridge - to pass the generous resources and goodwill of donors more directly to those who are so obviously in need."
The work of The Pendulum Project is based on the conviction that what the caregivers in Malawi need are partners - partners in hope, advocacy and resource procurement. Its work is based on the belief that these organizations should be self-managed, with a stake in their own development and well-being. Aid should go to worthy, indigenous development projects, aimed at both short and long term relief, spurring the formation of community-based initiatives; that these organizations and the people who run them are the key to sustainable social change and economic development.
Additional information is available at www.pendulumproject.org.
CONTACT: The Pendulum Project | Ellen McCurley, 617-832-0655 - Executive Director | emccurley@pendulumproject.org | www.pendulumproject.org
SOURCE: The Pendulum Project
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