The Moderator's Challenge
Rt Rev Dr Shaw Paterson, the Moderator of the General Assembly, has issued a challenge with the potential to transform the lives of students in Malawi.
Can you spare some funds to support an appeal that helps children to do their homework and advance their education with the aid of small solar lights they can borrow from a school's ‘light library'? The funds will also be used to help PhD students at Zomba Theological University to study during hours of darkness.
Dr Paterson was inspired to launch the appeal after his visit to Malawi last autumn where he saw the challenges children faced in studying during the dark evenings without lights in their homes and when he witnessed first-hand power outages at the university. Run by a local branch of the UK-based charity Solar Aid, the appeal we are supporting is named Let Your Little Light Shine – Building God's People Through Education in Malawi.