SDA Colleges Join Forces to Help Malamulo

Here is the "official" news blurb about and exciting opportunity that the 12 SDA colleges and universities in North America have decided ...

North American Colleges Raise Money for New Dorm

The student leaders of the various North American Adventist Colleges met for their yearly conference in April. It was here that they seriously started discussing the idea of coordinating a joint mission project to keep the schools united throughout the year. In addition, the Adventist Intercollegiate Association (AIA) was very functional in previous decades, but these student leaders were looking for something that would once again, distinguish AIA.

Barry Howe is the outgoing Student Association President at Southern Adventist University. He came to the conference with the idea and presented a proposal in which he suggested that a mission project would both unite and distinguish the Adventist Colleges again.

Rick Williams, vice chancellor of student affairs at Loma Linda University was present at this presentation, and mentioned the mission project that the Loma Linda University students have been involved in over this last school year. He suggested that AIA consider joining with LLU on Malawi Project. LLU student leaders that were present were then asked to give a presentation on Malawi Project, for which they only had a few minutes to put together before the General Assembly on the final day of the conference.

It was certainly not their best presentation of Malawi Project, which made the moment for voting of the Colleges even more tense. However, because we are reporting it here… all 12 Adventist Colleges did accept to jointly fundraise for Malamulo College for this coming school year!

This comes at a crucial time for Malamulo College of Health Sciences, for they were just given 1 year to make specific changes on the campus or else they will be closed. One of the priorities listed by the Council was to drastically improve the living conditions of the students. Currently there can be 16 students in one room.

The Adventist Colleges will be fundraising to build a new girls dorm so the College can stay open. Malawi is already suffering a severe shortage of health professionals, so Malamulo College is crucial for Malawi health education.