Welcome to the New Year

Hello everyone, and welcome to another great year of the Malawi Pangea Project. We the council members have many ideas of how to raise a lot of money this year and also communicate with the kids over in Malawi more than once. This year lets try not to, "Bite off more than we can chew like last year," said co-webmaster Danny Barbati. We just raffled off 3 Jon Lester baseballs at open house and raised over $100! We are starting the year off a little early this year. I find that we are already more productive this year. Since we have an entire year this year rather 3 months we have more time to do fundraisers. We will try and get 7th graders into the program this year, but we will have to limit the amount of people who join. Ian Crittenden, President, says we should do this on a first come, first served system. The board of the council discussed our goals of the year. We will try to get the dance we were discussing at the end of the year in this year. We will try to get corporate sponsors to supply notebooks and things for the educational drive. Our fundraising/financial goal is to raise over $1000. I believe that if we do not "bite off more than we can chew" we can succeed in reaching this goal, we will just have to take the process at a calm, comfortable pace. If you have any ideas on fundraising please address me or any of the board members, or just post your idea on the blog. Aaron will be trying to set up a website for the Council. The t-shirts will also be designed this year so any ideas give them to Any of the board members or Mr. Meehan. We will try to get back into the weekly meeting routine. Danny Barbati mentioned that this year we should even out the groups and also during the meetings split into those groups. I hope this year will be a great year for the Malawi Pangea Project.

Dan Arthur
CFO and Treasurer