Special Event!​

 

CELEBRATING OTHAKARHAKA ("PASSING ON THE KINDNESS")

I DEMAND ACCESS HONORS IDA PULIWA in a FESTIVE GATHERING!

SUNDAY, SEPT. 29, AT 3 PM

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I Demand Access, which sponsors, hundreds of Malawi girls in their education, will also honor local supporters of Ida and her work: Lineage Performing Arts and Dancers, Flintridge Prep teachers and students, All Saints Women's Community, Borchard Foundation, Immaculate Heart Community,  University of Michigan Ross School of Business, Andy Lawlor, Gloria DeCoste, Verena Palmstrom, Agnes Grohs and family,  Lorna Johnson, and Ken Kobre.  

 

In response to an act of kindness by a stranger, Ida Puliwa, the young Malawian founder of Othakarhaka – Passing on the Kindness – started a grass roots, sustainable, multi–village organization despite the opposition of the male leaders, who said “No, Ida, you cannot. You are only a girl!” Now, over 6,700 dues-paying village volunteers help one another with their crops while feeding the elderly and the orphans. Millions of trees have been planted. Agricultural innovations and hand-dug irrigation trenches have more than quadrupled food production. But Ida’s most striking accomplishment may be the empowerment of women, through literacy training and micro loans, as well as educating girls who have been delivered from the enslavement of illegal childhood marriages. With the help of friends in the US, her organization is supporting hundreds of girls in secondary school and college. In conversation with Don Thomas, Ida will share her remarkable story. 

 

Please join us and be inspired by what can result from one simple act of kindness and the deep faith of a visionary who knows the power of volunteerism and leading with, and through, kindness.